The following list includes Education, Dharma, and research-related centers across the world interested in mindfulness and meditation
Centers and Websites
1. Mind and Life Institute [Link]
2. UMASS – center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society (JKZ) [Link]
3. UK Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy – [Link]
2. Mindful.org – A Shambhala Sun publication [Link]
3. Mindfulness.org.au – [Link]
4. Mind Body Awareness Project [Link]
5. Mindful Research Guide (David Black) – [Link]
6. The Mindfulness Center [Link]
7. Mindsight Institute [Link]
8. Shinzen Young – Meditation in Action [Link]
9. Upaya Zen Center (Roshi Joan Halifax) [Link]
10. Metro-Area Research Group on Awareness & Meditation (MARGAM) [Link]
11. Zen and the Brain – Jim Austin’s web of resources [Link]
12. Dharma Seed – Vipassana talks and more [link]
13. Audio Dharma – Archive of Dharma talks given at the CA Insight Meditation Society -[link]
Mindfulness-related Research Centers
1. Harvard Medical School –
a. Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory (BWH) – [Link] – Cognitive, Affective, and Contemplative Neurosciences [Link]
b. Benson Henry Institute for Mind-body Medicine – [Link]
c. Lazar lab (MGH) – [Link]
d. Neuroscience of Meditation, Healing, and Sense of Touch (Kerr lab) – [Link]
e. Osher Center for Integrative Medicine – [Link]
f. Khalsa Lab on Yoga Research [Link]
g. Ellen Langer’s Lab (Harvard) [Link]
2. Roemer Research Team at UMASS – Boston [Link]
3. Emotion, Brain & Behavior lab at Tufts University [Link]
4. Sue Orsillo’s Lab (Suffolk University) [Link]
5. Center for Investigating Healthy Minds – University of Wisconsin (Richie Davidson lab) – [Link]; Lab for Affective Neuroscience[Link]
6. Stanford cCARE – Center for Compassion & Altruism Research & Education [Link]
7. Stanford Center on Stress and Health [Link]
8. University of California, Davis Center for Mind and Brain – Saron Lab (Shamatha project) [Link]
9. Britton lab (Brown) of Contemplative, Clinical, and Affective Neuroscience [Link]
10. Brown Contemplative Studies Initiative [Link]
11. Yale Therapeutic Neuroscience Clinic (Brewer Lab) [Link]
12. University of California, San Francisco Osher Center for Integrative Medicine [Link] and Department of Psychiatry [link]
13. Kent State University – Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation (Fresco) lab [Link]
14. The Jha Lab – University of Miami – Exploring the Stability and Mutability of Attention & Working Memory [Link]
15. Penn Program for Mindfulness [Link]
16. University of Virginia Contemplative Sciences Center [Link]
17. University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill – Integrative Medicine [Link]
18. University of California – San Diego Center for Mindfulness [Link]
19. Centre for Mindfulness (University of Toronto – Zindel Segal) – [Link]
20. Atlanta Mindfulness Institute [Link]
21. Institute for Mindfulness-Based Approaches (Germany) [Link]
22. Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies [Link]
23. Seattle Pacific University Lustyk Lab [link]
24. University of California, Los Angeles Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) [link] & Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology [link]
25. University of California, San Diego Center for Mindfulness [link]
26. New York University – Zoran Josipovic Contemplative Science Lab [Link]
Mindfulness-related Clinical-based Research Centers
1. Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy – Boston [link]
2. Society for Clinical Mindfulness and Meditation [link]
3. Duke Integrative Medicine [link]
4. Center for Mindfulness and Psychotherapy – LA [link]
5. Center for Therapeutic Neuroscience – Yale (Jud Brewer) [Link]
6. Center for Mindful Eating [link]
7. National Center for Complimentary & Alternative Medicine [link]
7. Mindfulness Practice Center at the University of Missouri [link]
8. Mindfulness Practice Center at the University of Vermont [link]
9. Mindfulness Training Institute of Washington [link]
10. Mindfulness-based Relapse Prevention (Univ. of Washington) [Link]
11. eMindful Evidence-Based Mind Body Wellness [Link]
12. Mindful Living Center [Link]
13. Osher Center for Integrative Medicine: San Francisco [link], Boston [link]
Mindfulness-related Education Centers
1. Association for Mindfulness in Education [Link]
2. EDUTOPIA – The George Lucas Educational Foundation [Link]
3. SMART – Stress Management and Relaxation Techniques in Education [Link]
4. CASEL – Collaborative for Social and Emotional Learning [Link]
5. Brown University Contemplative Sciences Initiative [Link]
6. Center for Contemplative Mind in Society [Link]
7. Garrison Institute – CARE – Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education [Link]
8. Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education [Link]
9. Lifespan Learning Institute [Link]
10. Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values (MIT) [Link]
11. Inner Kids – Susan Kaiser-Greenland [Link]
Mindfulness-related Dharma Centers
1. Insight Meditation Society (IMS), Barre, MA [link]
2. Spirit Rock Meditation Center [Link]
3. Cambridge Insight Meditation Society [Link]
4. Boston Rigpa Meditation Center [Link]
5. Still Quiet Place [link]
6. Plum Village [link]
Yoga and other Embodied Contemplative practice resources
1. Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health [link]
2. International Association of Yoga Therapists [link]
American Mindfulness Research Association (AMRA) [Link]