If you’ve tried to meditate but found yourself wrestling with anxiety, restless thoughts, or old trauma surfacing the moment you close your eyes, you’re not alone.
Many people begin a mindfulness practice with genuine hope, only to give up when it starts feeling too difficult, too abstract, or too disconnected from what their nervous system is actually experiencing. Instead of relief, calm, and a deeper sense of presence, the result is frustration, more nervous system dysregulation, and the sense that real healing or awakening may be out of your reach.
Dr. Fleet Maull, the founder and CEO of HeartMind Institute, believes the problem isn’t you, it’s the method. Many traditional approaches ask you to override your mind or suppress thoughts without first stabilizing your attention in the body.
A Zen Roshi and senior teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Dr. Maull has devoted more than five decades to contemplative practice, including 14 years in prison where meditation became his lifeline. Drawing from intensive training and study in Buddhist practice, neuroscience, and Western psychotherapy, he developed Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness, a deeply embodied, heart-centered, and trauma-informed approach to mindfulness-awareness meditation.
For people carrying stress, trauma, or chronic dysregulation, that can feel like trying to calm a storm by sheer willpower. Without engaging the nervous system directly, meditation easily turns into a struggle with what some call the “monkey mind.”
Join Dr. Maull for this eye-opening online event and learn about Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness (NSM)™, his neuroscience-informed approach that stabilizes attention more quickly by working directly with the brain’s attention networks and nervous system through embodied interoceptive awareness — awareness of the sensations and signals arising within your body.
You may perceive a difference the very next time you meditate?
Shifting from the brain’s Default Mode Network (DMN), which fuels mental chatter and self-referential thinking, into the Task Positive Network (TPN), allows your mind and nervous system to stabilize and quiet naturally and without force.
Experience this shift firsthand in a guided Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness practice that reveals how focused somatic presence can bring steadiness and ease.
You’ll leave this event with a new understanding of why meditation has felt difficult, a clear map of how this embodied method supports nervous system regulation and self-agency, and a felt sense of what it’s like to come home to your body in a safe, trauma-informed way.
