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Beginner's Course

Zendo is a meditation assistance device that helps you achieve a deeper, more effective meditation. Anyone can enhance their meditation practice and benefits by adding Zendo.

If you already have a consistent meditation practice, enjoy adding Zendo to your practice.

If you are new to meditation or looking to begin, this Zendo Beginner's Course is a great start for you. Zendo Co-Founder Dr. Baron Short will teach you how to use your Zendo and some simple meditation practices you can use to enhance your sense of calm, focus, and connectedness. Dr. Short has over 27 years of meditation practice and has built this course to help you get the most out of your Zendo.

The course is free, and can be accessed in the drop down sections below. Sessions are brief, lasting about 20 minutes each, intended to be paired with your Zendo system and can be completed at your own pace

Start Here - Course Preface

Course Preface

Nearly all human beings seek to improve their happiness while reducing their suffering. At Zendo, we consider training the mind as one of the fundamental pillars to living a great life. Meditation is the longest standing approach to mind training, but it can be time intensive and take many weeks to notice any meaningful improvements.

Zendo, which activates brain areas related to meditation, during meditation can bring an increase in calm, focus, and connection 2.5x better than meditation alone.

With all those benefits, you might still ask, but how do I use Zendo, what’s my best mode, and what practices might I do during Zendo? We have the answer. Our cofounder, Dr. Baron Short, who is a brain stimulation expert with a 27-year meditation practice across a variety of traditions facilitates this beginner course to walk you through all you need to know on using Zendo while including some of the best meditative techniques that can be done at rest or during your daily activity to improve your happiness.

Course Schedule

Course Schedule:

Quick Video: Orientation Video of How to Use Zendo

Sessions 1-3: Trying all three Zendo Modes (1, 2, & 3) in these consecutive sessions while exploring the breath and body.

Quick Video: Picking your preferred mode (hint - more isn't always better)

Session 4: Exploring your mind- connecting with emotions

Session 5: Exploring your mind- connecting with thoughts

Session 6: Exploring your world- connecting through the senses

Session 7: MindAnchoring—putting it all together

Zendo Welcome Orientation (8 mins)

Welcome Orientation

In this video, Dr. Baron Short gives an overview for the Zendo beginner’s course. He describes setting the goal to decrease mindwandering and enhance our well-being, performance, and transformation via setting a meditation habit that includes using Zendo. Dr. Short walks through the initial set up of using Zendo that includes prepping the skin, putting on the Zendo pads, selecting the mode with goals to try all 3 modes and use your preferred mode while learning to anchor our minds in relationship to sensations, feelings, and thoughts.

Session 1 - Trying Mode 1 + Breath and Body (24 mins)

Session 1

Trying Mode 1 + Recognizing the Breath and Body

In the first Zendo Session 1, Dr. Short guides you through the use of Zendo at Mode 1 for a 20-minute meditation session. The focus of the meditation is on our breathing and body sensations.

Session 2 - Trying Mode 2 + Breath and Body (24 mins)

Session 2

Trying Mode 2 + Breath and Body

In the second Zendo Session, Dr. Short guides you through the use of Zendo at Mode 2 for a 20-minute meditation session. The focus of the meditation is on our breathing and body sensations.

Session 3 - Trying Mode 3 + Breath and Body (24 mins)

Session 3

Trying Mode 3 + Breath and Body

In the third Zendo Session, Dr. Short guides you through the use of Zendo at Mode 3 for a 20-minute meditation session. The focus of the meditation is on our breathing and body sensations.

How To Pick Your Preferred Mode (5 mins)

How to Pick Your Preferred Mode

Zendo has 3 modes, and sometimes it's hard to determine what works best for you. Dr. Short gives a 5-minute review of picking your preferred Zendo mode to include in your meditation.

Session 4 - Connect With Your Emotions (24 mins)

Session 4

Connecting and Shifting Emotions

In the fourth Zendo Session, Dr. Short guides you through the use of Zendo at your preferred mode for a 20-minute meditation session. The meditation will include breath and body sensations with a focus on working with our emotions.

Session 5 - Connect With Your Thoughts (24 mins)

Session 5

Connecting and Shifting Thoughts

In the fifth Zendo Session, Dr. Short guides you through the use of Zendo at your preferred mode for a 20-minute meditation session. The meditation will include breath, body, and emotions with a focus on working with our thoughts.

Session 6 - Connecting Through Our Senses (24 mins)

Session 6

Connecting With The World Through Our Senses

In the sixth Zendo Session, Dr. Short guides you through the use of Zendo at your preferred mode for a 20-minute meditation session. The meditation will focus on working with our field of sensations- including sights, sounds, taste, smell, and touch.

Session 7 - Putting it All Together: MindAnchoring (24 mins)

Session 7

Putting It All Together: Mindanchoring

In the seventh Zendo Session, Dr. Short guides you through the use of Zendo at your preferred mode for a 20-minute meditation session. The meditation will include recognizing the breath, body, emotions, thoughts, and sensations in the process of mindanchoring which is an approach we can apply at rest during meditation and throughout our day to improve our well-being, performance, and transformation.

Final Thoughts

Final Thoughts

Dr. Short discusses an ongoing meditation practice, that includes Zendo, improves your well-being. You now have all the tools to build an active meditation habit, and incorporate Zendo in the places where you need that extra boost.