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This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey gang happy Friday. It's time for

a bonus meditation. Today we're going to practice a kind of meditation. Many people tend

to overlook I think walking meditation. Close listeners will recall that in our Monday

episode this week with Joseph Goldstein we talked a lot about walking meditation. 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 walking meditations if you're interested in that

kind of thing. Alexis is a longtime student of the Burmese master, Saida Utagia and Alexis

has served as a monk in the past and also teaches many retreats here in the US. Okay,

here we go now with Alexis Santos. Hi, this is Alexis. The benefits of walking meditation

are many. We walk a lot. So it increases our chances of becoming more aware if it can

be mindful while we walk and it can help settle and relax the mind, grounding us and

connecting us with the environment. So let's get started. If you're not already doing

so, go ahead and start walking. Wherever it is, whether you're indoors on a rainy day

or if you're out and about, just walk naturally. The beauty of mindfulness is that from the

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