#844: Be Still — Guided Meditation with Zen Master Henry Shukman
The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
4.6 • 17.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
This episode is part of a series called Meditation Monday. The teacher, Henry Shukman, has been on my podcast twice before. He is one of only a few dozen masters in the world authorized to teach Sanbo Zen, and now, he’ll be your teacher.
In addition to my long-form interviews each week, every Monday I’ll bring you a short 10-minute or so meditation, which will help you for the rest of the week.
Over this four-episode series, you’ll develop a Zen toolkit to help you find greater calm, peace, and effectiveness in your daily life.
Henry’s app, The Way, has changed my life since I first started using it. Unlike other meditation apps, where you’re overwhelmed with a thousand choices, The Way is a clear step-by-step training program guided entirely by Henry. Through a logical progression, you’ll develop real skills that stick with you.
I’ve been using it daily, often twice a day, and it’s lowered my anxiety more than I thought possible.
As a listener of my podcast, you can get 30 free sessions by visiting https://thewayapp.com/tim and downloading the app.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferriss. Welcome to another episode of the |
| 0:04.3 | Tim Ferriss show. This episode is a brand new experiment called Meditation Monday. That means, |
| 0:09.7 | in addition to my long form interviews each week, every Monday, I will be bringing you a short |
| 0:13.9 | 10 minute or so meditation, which will help you for the rest of the week. Over this four-episode |
| 0:19.3 | series, you'll develop a Zen toolkit, |
| 0:21.5 | specifically to help you find greater calm, peace, and effectiveness in your daily life. |
| 0:26.3 | The teacher, Henry Shookman, has been on my podcast twice before. He is one of only a few |
| 0:30.9 | dozen masters in the world authorized to teach what is called Sambo Zen, and I have found |
| 0:35.7 | this particularly interesting and effective. And now he'll |
| 0:37.9 | be your teacher. I've been using Henry's app, The Way, once, often twice a day, and it has lowered my |
| 0:45.0 | anxiety more than I thought possible. As a listener of the show, you yourself can get 30 free sessions |
| 0:50.4 | by visiting theway app.com slash Tim. So if you like what you hear in these meditations, |
| 0:55.7 | which will be valuable in and of themselves, you can get 30 free sessions by going to |
| 0:59.5 | the wayapp.com slash Tim. And for the time being, please enjoy this meditation Monday with |
| 1:04.9 | Henry Shookman. Hello, and welcome to this meditation with me, Henry Shookman. I'm really delighted and honored and |
| 1:16.2 | quite humbled to be offering this to you. This is the first of a little set of four meditations |
| 1:22.5 | and it's designed to help you find a moment of peace in the midst of a busy day, or possibly |
| 1:31.5 | at the end of a long tiring day, or before your day starts, any time you feel a little |
| 1:38.5 | intervention to help your nervous system would be a good thing for you. So we're just going to do a simple body scan, |
| 1:47.3 | basically, which grounds us, centers us, brings us back into the heart of our own being, |
| 1:53.1 | which then helps us to function and perform better in the course of our day with more peace and a better regulated nervous system. |
| 2:04.3 | So come into any comfortable seated position. |
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