If you teach meditations, you and your students will benefit from encouraging your students to talk about what happened for them in the meditation. How do you get the conversation started? What is there to talk about?

I share insights and guidance for conversation topics applicable to most meditations. Then I use a specific meditation (A Being That Can Fly), to illustrate points of interest in the student experience for each of the 12 steps in the meditation.

It's best if you do the 20-minute Being That Can Fly meditation first (it's the episode before this one) and then listen to this podcast.

Then come over the Meditation Conversations online community to join the conversation (https://meditationconversations.com).

Carrie Heeter (PhD, RYS200) is a meditation teacher, writer, and scientist. She is Professor Emeritus of Media and Information at Michigan State University and author of the book An Inside Look at Meditation: Experiences for healing, support, and transformation. She is a long-time personal student of Marcel Allbritton (PhD, C-IAYT) and has engaged in advanced Yoga studies with Chase Bossart (C-IAYT, RYT500) through Yoga Well Institute for more than a decade.