Lisa Kring
Meditation Teacher
Lisa Kring draws from her experience as a licensed clinical social worker with a background in dispute resolution and family court mediation to practice and teach others about mindfulness. She believes self-compassion is a powerful tool to establish deep healing and growth.
Los Angeles
California
United States
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
- Vipassana
- Mindfulness
- Self-Compassion
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Invite Love In
Wellbeing practices to open your heart to love and worthiness.
Fall Back Asleep
Use these tools when tossing and turning gets you down.
Surrender to Nature
This short set of guided practices is designed to get you out of your head and into the great outdoors.
Learn From Loneliness
Get to know what's lurking under your feelings of loneliness and find genuine, heartfelt connection with three short practices for discovering and connecting with your true self.
Rewire a Pattern
Three wellbeing tools to change a habit.
Connect to Your Inner Wisdom
We all have a wise inner compass that is always there to guide and support us if we stop and connect with it.
Self-Compassion for Hard Times
Cultivate some self-compassion when you're in a tight spot with another person and you wish you could handle it better.
Connect to Your Heart
Connect to your heart center first, so you can then establish warm and heartfelt connections with others in your life.
Meditate When Missing Someone
Discover how to feel deeply connected to the ones you love, regardless of any physical distance separating you.
Learn to Love Your Body
Invite an attitude of friendliness and gratitude towards your body, so you can accept and enjoy it just as it is.
Break Unhelpful Patterns
Use mindfulness to break the habits that don't truly serve and support you, and create new possibilities in your life.
Fully Accept Your Kids
Let go of the expectations you have for your children, expanding your capacity to know and accept them as they truly are.
Mindful Parenting: Be More Present
Use mindfulness to give your children the greatest gift you can give as a parent: your full presence and attention.
Stop Overworrying About Your Kids
Find positive ways to protect your children and feel at peace, instead of letting excessive worries become a burden.
Active Listening for Parents
Become the best parent you can be by learning how to listen to your children mindfully, fully present and without an agenda.
Align with Your Truest Values
Do you ever feel like you’ve lost your way in life? Reconnect with your inner compass and align with the deep values that will bring you back home.
Learn Less Reactive Parenting
Stop reacting mindlessly to every triggering situation with your kids, and find new, skillful ways of responding as a parent.
Unwind Before a Tough Conversation
Calm the mind and heart before a tough interaction so you can get your point across with clarity and kindness.
Learn to Trust Your Gut
Open to wisdom and clarity from within.
Learn to Practice Self-Compassion
This short and nurturing practice of self-compassion will help you experience deep relaxation from the inside out.
Practice Mindful Listening
This short meditation will help you practice mindful listening, an essential skill for better communication and true connection.
Reboot Your Meditation Routine
Is your meditation practice feeling stale, flat, or stalled? Try this refreshing practice to recapture the mystery, power, and vitality of mindfulness in your daily life.
Let Go of Resentment
Are you harboring any resentment or feeling cut off from someone you love? Explore how to restore intimacy with others without compromising your feelings or needs in this practice.
Say Yes to What's Here (Encore Broadcast)
There is freedom in welcoming what’s unpleasant or unwanted in your life. Join Lisa Kring and learn a powerful two-step mindfulness process to help you move through difficulties. This session was previously recorded on March 24, 2021.
Fill Your Heart with Light
Bask in the light of heartwarming qualities such as kindness, compassion, and love. This illuminating meditation will awaken your radiant heart.
Let Go of Darkness
Celebrate the winter solstice with a grounding candle-lighting reflection meditation. Let go of darkness by tilting with the earth toward more and more light.
Let Go of Separateness
We all feel lonely sometimes — especially around the holidays. Explore how a deep connection to the present moment can liberate us from the misperception of our separateness.
Let Go of Expectations
Expectations can prevent us from being open to life as it really is. Explore this focused attention practice to release expectations and discover the richness of your reality.
Gratitude and Silver Linings
Gratitude can sometimes be found in unlikely places. Join Lisa Kring for a guided meditation on exploring and acknowledging the silver linings that may arise from life’s challenges.
Meditation for Self-Connection
This practice that dates back to the Buddha will help you experience a deeper connection to everything and everyone.
Mood-Boosting Sun Meditation
Whenever you're gloomy, mindfully soak in some sunshine to receive its mood-boosting energy.
Letting Go: A Wisdom Meditation
Let go of the need to control the uncontrollable, and instead learn to recognize the things you do have power over.
Meditation for Your Nature Walk
Experience nature in a deep, present way, as a method to maintain your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
Use Relaxation to Focus
It may sound counterintuitive, but one of the most effective ways to become focused is to simply pause and relax.
Headache Relief Meditation
Shift your perspective whenever you have a headache, by placing your awareness in areas of the body that feel well.
Mindfully Release Doubt
Do inner doubts drag you down and hold you back in life? Join Lisa Kring for a powerful meditation in which your feelings of doubt can be mindfully acknowledged, explored, and released.
Meditate When Craving Sweets
Try this short practice to mindfully curb your sugar cravings.
Stress Less in Traffic
With mindful awareness, everyday traffic can actually become an opportunity for wisdom and stop being a burden.
Tame a Restless Mind
A restless mind can both scatter and sap your energy. In this guided meditation, Lisa Kring will help you recognize the emotional symptoms of restlessness and make space for more ease and clarity.
Meditation for Annoying Partners
Maintain a positive perspective and bring back some balance whenever your relationship gets tense and complicated.
Fall Back Asleep at Night
This practice will help put your worries “to bed” when you wake up at night, so you can fall back asleep easily.
Regulate Stress, Step by Step
Do you feel like you’re mindlessly reacting to life rather than mindfully responding with skill? Learn how to navigate and regulate stress in a step-by-step process in the present moment led by Lisa King.
Healing Shame
Does shame prevent you from loving and accepting yourself and others fully? In this meditation, Lisa Kring will help you mindfully transform self-judgment into self-compassion.
Mindfully Release Anger
Do you ever feel like you are ready to blow your top? Join Lisa Kring for a meditation in which the powerful emotion of anger will be explored, honored, and healed in a practical and mindful step-by-step process.
Ease Fear by Getting Grounded
Is fear hijacking your life in any way? Join Lisa Kring for a mindfulness meditation where you can compassionately unpack the challenging emotion of fear.
RAIN Meditation to Ease Anxiety
Do you often feel overwhelmed or consumed by worry? Join Lisa Kring for a guided meditation on healing the complex emotion of anxiety.
Supportive Healing Touch
Learn a simple and practical way to regulate your nervous system. Join Lisa Kring for a mindful practice of supportive touch, where you'll hold yourself to activate the "mammalian caregiving system" in your body.
Universal Compassion
Discover self-compassion as a path to transformation and liberation with this meditation that helps you hold your feeling of suffering with love, tenderness, and self-care.
Resources for Trauma Healing
In this guided meditation, you'll learn how you can use grounding images for natural calm, ease, safety, and healing — at any place and time.
Orienting for Trauma Recovery
Learn how connecting to your physical sensations can create a space of healing and support. Join Lisa Kring for this meditation to help regulate your nervous system and invite a sense of calm.
Grounding for Trauma Recovery
Trauma can limit your ability to experience a full range of emotions. In this meditation, Lisa Kring teaches how to regulate your nervous system by getting grounded.
Loving-Kindness for All Beings
Discover how the practice of kindness can be a path to transformation. Invite in compassion toward all beings in this loving-kindness meditation.
Loving-Kindness to a Neutral Person
In this meditation, you will apply the ancient practice of loving-kindness to a “neutral” being and watch as your heart transforms and our common humanity becomes stronger.
Loving-Kindness for a Loved One
Deepen the heartfelt connection you feel to those most beloved in your life. In this loving-kindness meditation, you'll focus on the love felt for a loved one.
Your Breath Is Your Superpower
Your breath can be your deepest teacher and greatest tool. Tap into the powers of the breath and free yourself from the wandering mind underlying much of our suffering.
Discover Inner Serenity
Feel the sense of ease available in your body, just underneath the waves of thoughts and distractions. Access your inner calm in this mindful awareness meditation.
Experiencing Belonging
Feel more, think less, and remember the truth of your belonging. Join Lisa Kring live to mindfully reclaim your connection to the earth, the breath, and the natural world to experience calm, healing, and peace.
Meditation for Fathers
Cultivate masculinity to be a powerful, loving presence. Ground yourself in loving goodness in this visualization practice that celebrates the fathers and father figures among us.
Befriend Your Mind
View your thoughts like clouds, coming and going, instead of problems or obstacles. Adopt an attitude of non-judgment to bring freedom, liberation, and insight.
Come Home to Self-Compassion
You may spend a lifetime seeking support outside yourself when struggling. Instead, go inward to wish yourself well and experience a homecoming with this meditation.
Come Home to Self-Compassion
When you are hurting, you need tender care. Hold yourself with compassion to find calm, ease, and safety in this supportive loving-kindness meditation.
Be Your Own Cheerleader
We often look outside of ourselves for the love we need, only to be disappointed. Learn to mindfully connect to yourself just as you are in this guided visualization meditation.
Make Space for Self-Compassion
When you become aware of your negative self-talk, it can be heartbreaking. Try this meditation to gain insight into these inner voices and invite loving self-compassion instead.
Loving-Kindness for Mothers
Tame critical inner voices and discover love and support from within. Learn how to release judgment and access the power of loving awareness in this practice.
Mothering for Mothers
Reflect on the tender care you so freely give to others in this loving-kindness practice. This meditation will help you practice cultivating an "inner mother" for self-nurturing.
Self-Care Check-In for Parents
Being a parent can be exhausting. Learn how to press pause and check on your unmet needs, so you can parent from a more balanced state.
Mindfully Respond to Your Children
Mindful parenting allows you to skillfully respond to your child without losing your cool. In this meditation with Lisa Kring, you'll learn practical strategies to support mindful responses.
The Power of Mindful Parenting
When you feel calm and clear, it's easier to be present for your children. Experience the power of shifting awareness from your children to your inner experience in this class.
Spread Joy Through Kindness
Kindness flows from an open and friendly heart. Tap into this natural, happy feeling in this loving-kindness meditation.
Say Yes to What's Here
There is freedom in welcoming what’s unpleasant or unwanted in your life. This powerful two-step mindfulness process will help you move through those difficulties.
Notice the Good Around You
Experience natural joy in each moment by deactivating your brain's "default mode network," the part that scans for threats. Learn how in this guided practice.
Connect to Yourself First
Learn how to access the deep, heartfelt connection that is always available to us.
Feel Content Here and Now
Find a sense of abundance and wellbeing by focusing on everything that is OK right now.
STOP Method to Reduce Stress
We can't stop the waves of life, but we can learn how to surf them and reduce feelings of stress.
Stay Anchored Through Change
Life is not always the way we want it to be. Learn to accept it and stop resisting it, so you don't create unnecessary suffering.
Discover Joy in Challenging Times
Learn how to access joy no matter the circumstances.
When Anxiety Arises, Try This
While it feels counterintuitive, embracing anxiety and turning toward it can be helpful.
Mindfulness as A Superpower
We can either mindlessly react or courageously respond, becoming the heroes in our own lives.
How Meditation Became My Home
I remain profoundly human but suffer so much less now; the experience of liberation is real for me.
Why Vipassana is Right for Me
When I found myself at home caring for my young children, I realized in a painful way that I could not just 'be.'
Featured Works
View All
Connect to Your Inner Wisdom
We all have a wise inner compass that is always there to guide and support us if we stop and connect with it.
Self-Compassion for Hard Times
Cultivate some self-compassion when you're in a tight spot with another person and you wish you could handle it better.
Connect to Your Heart
Connect to your heart center first, so you can then establish warm and heartfelt connections with others in your life.
Learn to Practice Self-Compassion
This short and nurturing practice of self-compassion will help you experience deep relaxation from the inside out.
Practice Mindful Listening
This short meditation will help you practice mindful listening, an essential skill for better communication and true connection.
Meditation for Your Nature Walk
Experience nature in a deep, present way, as a method to maintain your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
Education
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University of Southern California
Master of Social Work 1992 - 1994
Experience
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Senior Teacher
InsightLA Dec 2010 - Present (14 years) -
Mindfulness Meditation Instructor
Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology Jun 2009 - Present (15 years)