Philosophy · James Deeney

Why I Started Sitting

by James Deeney

Why I Started Sitting is a story-first meditation podcast. Less dharma talk, more the stories behind the stillness. Each week, host and ten-year meditator James Deeney sits down with serious practitioners - Buddhist teachers, long-term meditators and leading voices in mindfulness - to trace the real human story behind the practice. What made them sit in the first place? Why did they keep going when it got hard? And what started to change in their lives over the years? Here, we explore the stories behind the stillness.

Latest episodes

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From Despair to Zen Master | Henry Shukman

Try Henry’s meditation app, The Way, free for 30 days: https://www.thewayapp.com/whyistarted... In this episode of Why I Started Sitting, Henry Shukman traces the long ro

Oct 21
1 h 03 min

Henry Shukman on his first Zen retreat | Episode 1 Preview

Watch the full episode with Henry Shukman on Wednesday 21st October.Henry Shukman had been meditating for six or seven years when he went on his first week-long Zen retre

Oct 14
5 min

Introducing Why I Started Sitting | Official Trailer

Why I Started Sitting is a story-first meditation podcast about the people who take the path of practice seriously. And the lives that led them there. Most of us can sit

Sep 22
4 min

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