Roshi Fleet Maull, PhD
Trying to force the mind to be quiet and the body to be still during meditation can feel like an uphill battle.
Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ (NSM) offers a solution, using progressive embodied awareness to retrain your brain’s attention networks — so that your mind and body settle naturally, supporting nervous system regulation, sustained attention, and profound healing.
Have you tried meditation, mindfulness, or other practices — yet found them too difficult to sit through, or noticed that your mind simply keeps ruminating?
For many, the challenge with meditation isn’t a lack of discipline or focus — it’s that their nervous system has never been taught how to settle into stillness. When the body remains in patterns of stress, the mind naturally follows.
Roshi Fleet Maull, PhD, founder of the HeartMind Institute, shares that your nervous system is designed to learn, regulate, and heal — and that when you train it properly, calm, sustained awareness, presence, and regulation can become a natural state rather than something you struggle to achieve.
Join Dr. Maull for a powerful 7-week journey, where you’ll discover Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™, a neuroscience-informed approach to meditation that trains your brain through deep embodied awareness techniques.
Instead of trying to force the mind to be quiet, NSM works directly with the body and the brain’s attention networks, helping shift activity away from the rumination-driven Default Mode Network and into neural systems that support focused presence, emotional regulation, and natural healing.
Dr. Maull is a meditation teacher and mindfulness pioneer who has spent more than 50 years exploring the art and science of contemplative practice. A Roshi in the Zen tradition and a senior teacher in the Tibetan lineage, he has trained thousands of people — including mindfulness teachers, first responders, and incarcerated individuals — in practical methods for cultivating embodied awareness and emotional resilience.
He developed Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness as a way to help people stabilize attention far more quickly than traditional meditation approaches.
At the heart of his method is a simple but profound shift: coming home to the body.
Modern culture often pulls us into living almost entirely in our heads, treating the body as little more than a vehicle for the brain. Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness gently reverses this pattern by guiding you back into direct sensory experience of the body.
Through simple, progressive practices, you’ll learn how to tune your nervous system much like a musician tuning an instrument, allowing focused presence and sustained awareness to arise more naturally. As mental noise and nervous system reactivity begin to settle, deeper states of flow, resilience, and self-regulation can emerge. Beneath it all, you may begin sensing a deeper level of being — a place of innate wholeness and natural ease.
You can use these micro-practices throughout the day to settle stress in real time, expand your window of tolerance, and return to a responsive, grounded state even in challenging situations.
As you deepen your capacity for embodied awareness, meditation begins to shift from something you practice into something you inhabit — a state of natural presence that supports resilience, connection, and a renewed sense of being fully alive in the world.
Are you ready to retrain your nervous system, rediscover the intelligence of your body, and experience the quiet strength of embodied presence in your life?
During this wisdom-packed course, you’ll:
- Train your attention to move out of rumination and mental chatter so you can access calm, present-moment awareness more reliably
- Develop deep embodied awareness by sensing your skeletal structure, muscles, breath, and internal organs as anchors for meditation
- Strengthen your nervous system’s ability to self-regulate so stress, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm have less control over your inner state
- Learn how to activate your brain’s attention networks to support focus, emotional steadiness, natural healing, and greater resilience
- Build a powerful internal biofeedback loop that helps you sense tension, regulate your system, and return to presence in real time
- Expand your window of tolerance so you can remain grounded and steady even during difficult emotions or challenging situations
- Discover how embodied mindfulness can help release patterns of nervous system dysregulation associated with trauma and chronic stress
- Experience deeper states of effortless awareness, flow, and interconnected presence that you can begin bringing into everyday life
- And much more…
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-week transformational course, Dr. Maull will guide you through the skills and competencies you’ll need to learn how to train your attention through embodied mindfulness practices so your nervous system can regulate more easily and your mind can settle into calm, stable awareness.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Dr. Maull and experience his teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Dr. Maull’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions 2026-04-29 9:00:00 am.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Dr. Maull. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to use Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness to help you stabilize attention far more quickly than traditional meditation approaches.
Module 1: Experience Foundational Embodiment to Begin Training Your Attention Networks (2026-04-29 9:00:00 am)
Dr. Maull will introduce Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness— his neuroscience-informed approach to meditation that integrates decades of contemplative practice with insights from modern brain science.
You’ll begin exploring how your attention networks shape your inner experience, and how consciously directing attention can quiet rumination and bring you fully into the present moment.
Through guided exercises, Dr. Maull will help you experience meditation as an embodied process that works with the nervous system rather than struggling against the mind.
This foundational introduction establishes the skills you’ll continue developing throughout the course as you learn how to regulate attention, settle your nervous system, and experience meditation as a natural, embodied state of being.
In this session, you’ll:
- Explore establishing an uplifted, relaxed posture and begin experiencing embodied consciousness
- Discover how Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness trains your attention networks so you can shift out of rumination and into present-moment awareness
- Investigate the difference between observing thoughts and directly sensing experience so you can return to your body without self-criticism or struggle
- Learn how consciously directing attention toward embodied awareness helps quiet “monkey mind” and support nervous system regulation
- Begin cultivating awareness of sensation (exteroception) so that your body can become a gateway to deeper states of presence, flow, and healing
Module 2: Develop Your Sense of Interoception to Stabilize Awareness (2026-05-06 9:00:00 am)
Dr. Maull will guide you into interoceptive awareness — the ability to sense the internal landscape of your body from the inside out.
You’ll explore the understanding that the entire body is sensory, including muscles, tissues, and even the skeletal structure itself, which is richly connected to the nervous system.
Through a powerful somatic exercise, Dr. Maull will help you sense the weight, mass, and gravitational grounding of your body’s skeletal structure. This practice stabilizes attention while cultivating a deeper sense of embodiment and presence.
By learning how to rest awareness within the physical body itself, you’ll begin strengthening the internal biofeedback loop that supports profound nervous system regulation and sustained states of awareness.
In this session, you’ll:
- Experience a guided skeletal awareness practice to help your attention settle into the physical presence of the body
- Discover how the entire body — including your bones — participates in sensory awareness and contributes to your experience of embodiment
- Begin developing an internal neuro-biological feedback loop so your body can guide you toward greater balance and regulation
- Explore how deep interoceptive awareness strengthens your ability to stabilize attention and remain present in your lived experience
- Cultivate a felt sense of your body as a living sensory organism connected through the nervous system to deeper states of awareness
Module 3: Deepen Interoception Through Muscular Awareness to Regulate Stress & Restore Balance (2026-05-13 9:00:00 am)
Dr. Maull will lead you deeper into interoceptive awareness by exploring the sensory intelligence of your musculature.
Building on the skeletal grounding developed in the previous module, you’ll begin sensing the subtle aliveness present in the muscles, including the constant underlying tone, or tonus, that supports posture, movement, and regulation in the body.
Dr. Maull will explain how developing awareness of the muscular system strengthens your capacity for self-regulation, emotional balance, and physiological stability.
You’ll learn how to notice patterns of tension and release while cultivating a benevolent, non-judgmental awareness of your internal experience.
As your sensitivity deepens, the body becomes a powerful ally in calming the nervous system and stabilizing your meditation practice.
In this session, you’ll:
- Experience sensing the aliveness of your musculature, deepening your awareness and capacity for self-regulate
- Discover how bringing attention to the muscular system helps shift your brain from rumination into focused, present-moment awareness
- Practice gently contracting and releasing muscles to deepen your interoceptive awareness and support emotional balance
- Cultivate a benevolent, non-judgmental awareness that helps you return to the body without frustration or self-criticism
Module 4: Sense Your Internal Organs to Profoundly Anchor Your Practice (2026-05-20 9:00:00 am)
As interoceptive awareness continues to deepen, attention moves beyond muscles and bones into the living landscape of the body’s internal organs.
With Dr. Maull, you’ll explore the sensory intelligence of the viscera — including the lungs, diaphragm, digestive system, and the complex neural ecosystem of the gut.
With nearly one hundred million neurons, the gut’s internal nervous system plays an important role in emotional balance, physiological regulation, and overall wellbeing.
Breath becomes a central doorway into this internal terrain. As awareness refines, the breath can naturally activate the body’s relaxation response, helping restore balance and bring the nervous system back toward homeostasis.
As sensitivity develops, the internal body reveals itself as a dynamic field of sensation and energy. This growing awareness allows meditation to become more deeply anchored, creating a profound sense of grounding and stability that supports sustained presence.
In this session, you’ll:
- Follow a guided internal body scan to sense the breath moving through your lungs, diaphragm, and ribcage while exploring the living sensations within your abdominal organs
- Develop greater sensitivity to subtle internal rhythms, including breathing, digestion, and the pulse of the heartbeat
- Explore how the gut’s neural network contributes to emotional balance, physiological regulation, and overall wellbeing
- Learn how breath awareness helps activate the body’s relaxation response and support a return to physiological balance
- Deepen your ability to rest attention within the internal landscape of the body, strengthening embodiment and meditative stability
Module 5: Train Your Attention Networks to Strengthen Your Nervous System Regulation & Resilience (2026-05-27 9:00:00 am)
You’ll learn about Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness practices that help optimize the functional connectivity between the large-scale brain networks — particularly the Default Mode Network, Salience Network, and Frontoparietal Control Network — to stabilize attention and support emotional regulation, and relational awareness.
An unchecked Default Mode Network often drives rumination, worry, and mental fixation. Through embodied attention training, however, the brain can learn to shift more easily into networks that support focused presence and responsive awareness.
As these systems become more integrated and flexible, your capacity for self-regulation, emotional steadiness, and empathic connection naturally grows.
Dr. Maull will also introduce you to a focused-attention meditation as a powerful way to strengthen these neural pathways, cultivating a more effortless, non-striving relationship with meditation.
In this session, you’ll:
- Practice a guided focused attention meditation on the body and breath to strengthen the neural pathways that support sustained attention
- Discover how Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness helps regulate the Default Mode Network so rumination and anxiety have less influence on your awareness
- Explore how the brain’s attentional networks work together to support emotional regulation, resilience, and nervous system stability
- Learn how repeated attention training expands your window of tolerance so you can remain steady during stress and relational interactions
- Cultivate a more effortless approach to meditation that uses the natural power of attention and awareness without falling into strain or striving
Module 6: Cultivate New Neural Pathways to Release Trauma & Support Auto-Regulation (2026-06-03 9:00:00 am)
As Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness practices deepen, the nervous system gradually learns how to settle and stabilize on its own (auto-regulation) through the internal neuro-biofeedback loop developed in earlier modules.
Rather than constantly managing or controlling your inner state, the system begins reorganizing itself, forming new neural pathways that support greater ease, resilience, and emotional regulation.
As the body relaxes into deeper states of coherence and embodied awareness, trauma patterns naturally heal themselves.
Dr. Maull will demonstrate a guided practice to help you relax the sense of effort while resting in upright, grounded presence.
As the nervous system settles, you may begin to sense a natural flow of coherence through the body — a palpable experience of integration where mind, body, and nervous system begin working together more harmoniously.
In this session, you’ll:
- Follow a guided practice that helps you relax effort and settle into a grounded, upright posture that supports nervous system regulation
- Discover how the body shifts from effortful self-regulation toward natural autoregulation through the internal neuro-biofeedback loop
- Explore how trauma can gradually reorganize and naturally heal through embodied awareness
- Learn how mindfulness influences brain pathways involved in emotional regulation and resilience
- Experience how relaxing into embodied presence can create a palpable sense of flow and coherence within the body and nervous system
Module 7: Rest in Pure Presence to Experience Innate Wholeness & Integration (2026-06-10 9:00:00 am)
You’ll peacefully experience the natural culmination of Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness practice as you rest in effortless awareness and the depth of pure presence.
As attention stabilizes through embodiment and nervous system regulation, meditation begins to shift from something you practice into a state you can simply inhabit.
Many contemplative traditions refer to this quality of awareness as samadhi — a state characterized by flow, coherence, and a profound sense of ease.
From this place, awareness can open into a deeper recognition of non-dual presence — an experience in which the usual sense of separation softens and a natural feeling of interconnectedness emerges.
Beneath the noise of mental activity, you may begin to recognize a fundamental sense of inner okayness, wholeness, and intrinsic wellbeing that is not dependent on external circumstances.
In this session, you’ll:
- Follow a guided “just being” practice that invites you to release effort and rest in simple, open awareness
- Explore how deep embodiment naturally opens into states of flow, coherence, and effortless presence
- Experience how the sense of observer can soften, revealing a more spacious awareness of being
- Recognize how cultivating inner and outer safety allows the nervous system to access deeper states of steadiness and presence
- Discover how the qualities of pure presence and innate wholeness can begin integrating into everyday life
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2026-04-14 11:59:00 pm , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Dr. Maull’s transformative 7-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
Mindful Self-Acceptance Mini-Course
4 Guided Meditation Videos, Transcripts, and Handouts From Roshi Fleet Maull, PhD
Learn how to soften the inner critic and cultivate a more compassionate relationship with yourself through simple, accessible mindfulness practices. In this mini-course, you’ll be guided step by step through mindfulness-awareness meditation so you can begin noticing — and gently loosening — the habitual patterns of negative self-talk that shape how you see yourself. Through four guided, downloadable meditations with transcripts and reflection handouts, you’ll have everything you need to practice at your own pace. You’ll discover how even a few minutes a day can help retrain your mind, bringing more ease, emotional resilience, and a steadier sense of peace into your life. Over time, you’ll begin experiencing what it feels like to meet yourself with greater acceptance, presence, and quiet confidence.
Power of Meditation Summit Interview
Session From the Power of Meditation Summit With Roshi Fleet Maull, PhD
In this Power of Meditation Summit interview, you’ll join host Kelly Blaser in a fascinating conversation with Roshi Fleet Maull, PhD, about the transformative potential of deeply embodied meditation. Drawing on more than five decades of contemplative practice and teaching, Dr. Maull shares how his Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ approach blends mindfulness, neuroscience, and interoceptive awareness to support trauma healing and nervous system regulation. As you listen, you’ll gain a clearer understanding of why working directly with the body can make meditation more stable, accessible, and effective. You’ll also discover how embodied awareness can help you move beyond purely mental techniques into a more grounded experience of presence and resilience. By the end, you’ll walk away with fresh insight into how meditation can become a living practice that supports healing, clarity, and awakened living.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
NSM Ebook
PDF Excerpt From the Book by Roshi Fleet Maull, PhD
This 20-page ebook excerpt gives you a clear and practical introduction to Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ (NSM), a trauma-informed approach to meditation that brings together mindfulness, neuroscience, and body-based awareness. As you read, you’ll discover how this method works directly with your nervous system to help ease stress, soften trauma patterns, and support greater emotional balance. The guide breaks down complex ideas into accessible explanations so you can easily understand what’s happening in your mind and body. You’ll also explore simple practices that help you cultivate steadier presence, resilience, and self-regulation in daily life. By the end, you’ll have a grounded foundation for approaching meditation in a way that feels supportive, embodied, and sustainable.
NSM Guided Meditations
Video Series From Roshi Fleet Maull, PhD
This series of Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ (NSM) guided practice videos introduces you to the deeply embodied meditation practices at the heart of the NSM method. Through clear guidance and experiential exercises, you’ll learn how to cultivate interoceptive awareness — the ability to sense and track what’s happening inside your body in real time. As you practice, you’ll begin supporting your nervous system’s natural capacity for regulation while developing greater presence, resilience, and emotional balance. These videos give you a direct, experiential way to explore NSM rather than simply learning about mindfulness conceptually. With regular practice, you’ll start embodying these skills in daily life, bringing more steadiness and awareness to how you move through the world.
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Dr. Maull
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from Dr. Maull, the founder and CEO of HeartMind Institute — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to discover how to use your body as a gateway to meditation by training your attention through skeletal, muscular, breath, and internal awareness practices. Course sessions are on 2026-04-29 9:00:00 am.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are not recorded for playback; if you’re unable to attend the live sessions, the online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, The Healing Power of Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness
We feel honored that Roshi Fleet Maull, PhD, has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with the CEO and founder of HeartMind Institute whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about discovering how to use your body as a powerful anchor for attention, helping you reduce stress, regulate your nervous system, and access deeper states of presence, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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About Roshi Fleet Maull, PhD
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Fleet Maull, PhD, CMT-P, is an author, meditation teacher, mindset coach, and social entrepreneur who works at the intersection of personal and social transformation.
He is the CEO and founder of the global transformative education platform, HeartMind Institute, ranking number 578 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list. HeartMind Institute offers online summits, courses, and coaching programs integrating Western science with ancestral and contemplative wisdom, and addressing themes of trauma healing, resilience building, post-traumatic growth, expanded states of consciousness, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, conscious entrepreneurship, and more.
He founded Prison Mindfulness Institute and National Prison Hospice Association, catalyzing two national movements while serving a 14-year mandatory-minimum federal drug sentence from 1985 to 1999. He aslo co-founded the Engaged Mindfulness Institute, training trauma-informed mindfulness teachers to work with individuals and communities impacted by trauma and marginalization, and Center for Mindfulness in Public Safety, training corrections and other public safety professionals in mindfulness-based wellness and resiliency (MBWR) skills.
He is a senior Dharma teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and an empowered senior Zen teacher (Roshi) and Dharma successor of Bernie Tetsugen Glassman Roshi, founder of Zen Peacemakers International. Dr. Maull has served on the leadership team for the annual Zen Peacemakers Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat for more than 20 years and co-founded the Rwanda Bearing Witness retreats.
Based on his 50+ years of study and practice of numerous meditation techniques from the world’s contemplative traditions, Dr. Maull developed Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness (NSM) meditation, a deeply embodied neuroscience and trauma-informed approach to meditation that accelerates healing, transformation, and spiritual awakening.
Dr. Maull is the author of Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Fearlessly Live Your Highest Purpose and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good... Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull... and The Resilient C.O.: Neuroscience-Informed Mindfulness-Based Wellness & Resiliency for Corrections Professionals.
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