In 1955, Satya Narayan Goenka, a successful Burmese industrialist, began experiencing intense migraine headaches. Conventional medicine didn’t provide relief, so, at the suggestion of a friend, he ...

Goenka's Vipassana meditation (GVM), a widely applied mindfulness training system rooted in Buddhism, is currently widely used. Although the two abilities cultivated in GVM, awareness and equanimity, ...

Statistically, just 2–5% of us meditate— and for only 15–20 minutes a day. Imagine meditating 30 times longer for 9 days straight — without devices, speaking, eye contact, books, or music. That’s ...