485: A Kind of Meditation You Might Be Overlooking | Bonus Meditation with Alexis Santos
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Bringing mindfulness to walking is an opportunity to build awareness and relax the mind as you move about your day.
About Alexis Santos:
Alexis Santos is a featured teacher on the Ten Percent Happier app and has been in the field of mindfulness and meditation since 2001. He has been a long-time student of Sayadaw U Tejaniya, with whom he ordained as a Buddhist monk, and has taught at retreat centers around the globe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm David Brown, the host of Wondery's podcast business wars in our latest series the battle to dominate the Mexican fast food market |
| 0:08.3 | Get spicy |
| 0:09.9 | Listen to Taco Bell versus Chipotle on Apple podcasts Amazon music or wherever you listen |
| 0:19.4 | This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris |
| 0:23.2 | Hey gang happy Friday. It's time for a bonus meditation. Today. We're gonna practice a kind of meditation many people tend to overlook I think |
| 0:36.0 | walking meditation |
| 0:38.0 | Close listeners will recall that in our Monday episode this week with Joseph Goldstein |
| 0:42.9 | We talked a lot about walking meditation |
| 0:45.6 | Our teacher today, though, is my friend Alexis Santos who's a featured teacher over on the 10% happier app where we have many more |
| 0:53.0 | walking meditations if you're interested in that kind of thing |
| 0:56.8 | Alexis is a longtime student of the Burmese master sia da utasia nia and |
| 1:02.0 | Alexis has served as a monk in the past and also teaches many retreats here in the US |
| 1:10.9 | Okay, here we go now with Alexis Santos |
| 1:14.6 | Hi, this is Alexis |
| 1:17.7 | The benefits of walking meditation are many |
| 1:20.3 | We walk a lot so it increases our chances of becoming more aware if it can be mindful while we walk |
| 1:29.0 | And it can help settle and relax the mind |
| 1:32.9 | grounding us and connecting us with the environment |
| 1:36.8 | So let's get started |
| 1:39.2 | If you're not already doing so go ahead and start walking |
| 1:43.2 | Wherever it is whether you're indoors on a rainy day or if you're out and about just walk naturally |
| 1:53.8 | The beauty of mindfulness is that from the outside |
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