Meditation practice can be confusing and overwhelming. With all the many different techniques, philosophies, opinions, and schools from wildly different cultures across three millennia, it’s easy to get lost. If you’re wondering where you’re “at” with your practice, and what to do next, or just want to learn methods of deepening your meditation, then this is the class for you.

In this four-week exploration, you will learn a practical meditation map for people who are ambivalent about meditation maps. Through lectures, group discussion, and practice, you’ll become familiar with a model of deconstructing sensory experience using vipassana, a direction and method for contacting the spacious awareness that is always present in your experience, and a method to progress in your practice according to your individual goals.

Michael W. Taft is a maverick meditation teacher, bestselling author, and podcaster. As a mindfulness coach, he specializes in secular, science-based mindfulness training in retreats, groups, corporate settings, and one-on-one sessions. Michael is the author of several books, including the bestselling The Mindful Geek, Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless Concept, and Ego (which he co-authored), as well as the editor of such books as Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson and The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young.

He has often taught meditation at Google, worked on curriculum development for SIYLI, and is currently core faculty at Wisdom Labs, in San Francisco. Michael is also a featured teacher on the Simple Habit app, and an official advisor to the Therapeutic Neuroscience Lab. He was previously editor-in-chief of Being Human, and was the long-time editorial director of Sounds True.

From Zen temples in Japan to yogi caves in India, Michael has been meditating for over thirty five years and has extensive experience in both Buddhist Vipassana and Hindu Tantric practice. Michael is a senior facilitator in Shinzen Young’s Unified Mindfulness system, and is a teacher of meditation groups around the Bay Area. He currently lives in Oakland, California, and is founding editor of the iconoclastic mindfulness meditation blog and podcast Deconstructing Yourself.

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