I make meditation make sense—especially for people navigating stress, grief, change, neurodiversity, or just the everyday emotional shrapnel of being alive.
My goal is accessibility: a clear and powerful framework for why practice matters, an easy-going technique that works with your quirky wiring, and a palpable rhythm of support to keep that practice going.
Also, I make jokes.
Hi, I'm Jeff.
Meditation helps.
takes practice.
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Just 2 minutes. The key to getting started is not making a big deal of it.
Here's a short practice that explains what I mean:
P.S. When you subscribe, you get a bunch of free meditations, as well as a copy of my "Community Practice Activation Kit," so you can start your own cult. You’re welcome!
To keep meditation going, it helps to have a rhythm of support that works for you. That’s what happens here. Home Base is an affordable online community of continual learning and practice. When you subscribe, you enter a steady stream of new guided meditations, live community hangouts, and short reflections on how to manage these weird mind-body situations we’re all in, and have a reasonably good time while doing so!
It’s free, or $12 a month. Choose a plan that works for you.
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One is OUT, an increase in our capacity to stay present for ever-more of life.
The other is IN, an increase in our capacity to care for ever-more of ourselves.
I call these two aspects our Warrior and our Caregiver.
In meditation, growth and transformation happen in two directions.
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I help people understand their minds and build rhythms of practice that actually fit into their lives — whether you’re leading a company, supporting a community, or just trying to stay sane in a world that keeps emailing you.
Think: clarity, kindness, and just enough nerdy enthusiasm to keep things interesting.
I’ve guided everyone from burned-out doctors to squirmy six-year-olds, always with the same goal: to help people connect to their own inner resources, and then make that part of how life happens for everyone.
My work lives at the intersection of grass-roots activism, neurodivergent weirdness, and the joyous creative possibilities of practice. You’ll find it all here.
I make meditation accessible, and then I energize individuals and communities to help spread that goodness around.
Hi, I'm Jeff
On this retreat, Jeff guides a variety of adventurous practices, as a way both to highlight the underlying skills and principles of meditation, and to empower each person to learn what works for them.
Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
August 14-16, 2026
Being Human Takes Practice – New York
A quiet, spacious retreat to practice listening — to your body, the land, to what’s waiting to come through. Featuring guest teachers Scott Davis and Kalen Colson. Also: jokes, trees, and a dance party.
Hollyhock Cortes Island, BC
May 13-17, 2026
Meditation, Movement, Mystery – British Columbia
The world is filled with so many interesting things! People doing stuff, going places, making things happen. It’s all very exciting.
This is not about any of that.
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NEXT: Sunday, May 3, 2026, 8pm EST
The Do Nothing Project Live Broadcast
Whether it’s a Sunday night livestream or a multi-day retreat in the woods, these events are about stepping outside your habits, and stepping into group practice.
We meditate. We laugh. We explore weird metaphysical ideas. We return to our lives with more capacity and juice.
Want to sit with me in real life?
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— Alex
"I have ADD, as well as being in recovery, and I can’t tell you how refreshing it is to have someone out there that gets me.
I’m not kicking the shit out of myself and saying I should grow up. I’m rolling with it - allowing it all to be there - and mindfully drinking decaf - and saying Ok today is going to be kinda fun. So seriously thank you for your work. It really matters and has made a difference in my mental and spiritual experience."
— Vivian Tipton
"I am a director of a small hospice in a small town in the middle of a raging pandemic. The evidence of equanimity expressed in your words reached me on a cellular level. On a daily, hourly and at times by the minute this particular year, I live in “some beautiful neurotic passion that overwhelms my composure.” Today I am not alone, today I am renewed and again will strive/practice/experience equanimity. Also our Hospice is good, in part due to my practice. With gratitude."
— Callie W.
"I am so thankful I have found Jeff. He is constantly helping me feel like I am enough. Right here right now. I have laughed with him, and cried. There is so much warmth and love in his meditation session. It's funny to think I consider someone I've never met to talked to, a friend. A great friend, who wants the best for me and thinks I'm enough. What a gift. Thank you."
— Shawn T.
"My students, aged 12-14 change, literally change their minds when we do your practice. It’s amazing. I can call it "Brain Surgery from the Outside" as it helps calm them, organize them, slow their thinking, increase executive function. I have no data, just what I see and how it feels. Thank you for your service to kids you don't know and will never meet. You make a difference."
— Pat B.
"It’s not an overstatement to say that your “How to Meditate” practice on the Calm app has saved my life. My mind refused to calm down, and I was becoming so fatigued and worn out that I was questioning whether or not I wanted to be on this planet anymore. Your teaching and direction have given me hope, and the committee between my ears is starting to quiet down."
— Barbara Gowdy, author of The White Bone
“To talk with Jeff Warren is to be exhilarated. His intelligence and openness are such that you yourself feel a hundred times more intelligent and open. He performs a kind of compassionate magic. He gives me hope.”
— Dan Harris, author of 10% Happier
“Jeff Warren is one of the best meditation teachers on the planet.”
Everything is a practice.
Sitting quietly? Practice.
Showing up to a hard conversation? Practice.
Trying not to lose your sh*t in traffic? Also practice.
What I teach isn’t about escaping the mess.
It’s about getting steadier inside it.
Start small. Stay weird. Find your inner compass.
Practice Is How We Do Life
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