Room to Breathe

An At-Home Meditation Retreat with Sharon Salzberg

Between the smartphone, laptop, tablet, and whatever else is demanding your attention, sometimes you just need to unplug! Room to Breathe brings you a series of beginner-friendly guided meditations and mindfulness techniques to help you regain a sense of spaciousness and ease.

These essential practices were created to give you the feel of a meditation retreat at home—but can be enjoyed in any place conducive to a period of undisturbed quiet. Enhanced by a guidebook with teachings for breaking free from stressful habits and remembering what’s most important, Room to Breathe leads you through eight refreshing exercises including:
• Calming the Mind—breathing practices to replace anxiety with composure and strength
• Facing Challenges—cultivating courage and compassion to transform your relationship to suffering
• Opening the Heart—a self-directed lovingkindness meditation
“Going on retreat doesn’t remove us from the ups and downs of life,” explains Sharon Salzberg, “but it provides a way to understand ourselves more fully, to care more deeply for ourselves and others, and to do nothing for a while, with awareness and love.” Find respite whenever you need it with Room to Breathe.

Please note that this content was previously released as part of Unplug: For an Hour, A Day, or a Weekend.

Excellent introduction!

Sharon Salzberg is a good companion into meditation. She has clarity, warmth, and intelligence.
I think she has the whole idea of compassion ingrained in her being. She is most welcoming.

Sharon Salzberg makes meditation accessible

Sharon Salzberg makes meditation so accesible that you can't NOT get it and do it and transform your life!

Great if you use it right

Where this book excels is in it's ability to give you multiple shorter meditations you can do throughout the day. In a traditional retreat, you'd avoid all the items of your regular daily life like your phone and work. You can go through and do a meditation from this every time you get a chance to throughout the day and get great results. If you're a newcomer and looking to boost your meditation, that's a great approach to take to do so. You can really do that just about every day. You might want to do the meditations out of order from where they are in the boook, though. For example, I like doing a body scan in bed while I'm getting ready to fall asleep. Great versions of the basic meditations like mindfulness of the breath. There is a loving kindness meditation in here that's in the format I prefer. A bit short and not structured enough for what I I'd consider a true day of meditation. If you save things like cleaning up around your house for Sunday, then you can fairly easily set these up at various times throughout the day and mindfully clean around the house between meditations. It's basically a good collection of varied basic meditations anybody can try at any level. This could be very good for a true beginner if you do a meditation or two or three a day.

Masterful guidance!

She leads you into the state of mindful peace!
Grounding peaceful observation, breath and relaxation.

Can't Wait to Try More of Her Recordings

This is the first Sharon Salzberg audio I ever tried. I'm very satisfied...thrilled with this little book full of refreshing approaches to the usual mindfulness and meditation in my collection.