Local Resources and Events

Mental Health lou

Connecting Louisville with the Mental Health Resources They Need

Mental Health Lou is Louisville’s Community Wellness Hub. We’re connectors, creators and educators bridging the gaps to support our community’s mental wellbeing.

Earth & Spirit Center

Offers educational opportunities, workshops for beginners and children and many more.

Vipassana Community

Purpose is to provide a supportive setting and community for insight meditation practice. Newcomers and beginners are always welcome.

Louisville Community of Mindful Living

Coming together to meditate, share insights, ask questions and find a peaceful refuge without fear of judgment or rejection.

Koru Mindfulness Trainings

An evidence-based curriculum designed to teach mindfulness, meditation, and stress management. Hosted by UofL.

Apps

Koru Mindfulness

Koru Mindfulness® is an evidence-based curriculum specifically designed for teaching mindfulness, meditation, and stress management to college students and other young adults.

Mindfulness

Besides offering an extensive number of meditations with world-renowned teachers, the app also includes a reminder function which can be activated on specific times and places.

Insight Timer

Offers the largest free library of guided meditations on earth and the world’s most loved meditation Timer, for free.

Calm

Calm is the perfect mindfulness app for beginners, but also includes hundreds of programs for intermediate and advanced users.

Headspace

A personal meditation guide, right in your pocket with hundreds of themed sessions on everything from stress and sleep to anxiety and depression.

Websites

Wildmind

Wildmind’s mission is to benefit the world by promoting mindfulness and compassion through the practice of Buddhist meditation.

Kristen Neff’s Self Compassion

Kristin Neff, Ph.D. is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on self-compassion, being the first one to operationally define and measure the construct over a decade ago.

Youtube

In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, Brene Brown shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity.

Tara Branch’s Guided Meditations

Tara Brach’s teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world.