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Mountain Meditation
A guided visualization of yourself as a mountain: grounded, dignified, unmoved in essence while weather and seasons — moods, pressures, crises — pass across your slopes. A stability-and-equanimity practice, usable solo with audio or read aloud to groups as a centering close or opening.
- Lead slowly with real silences (Inner Pathways' note) — pace is the practice
Practical
- Time
- 10-20 min
- Group
- 1–∞ · individual, small-group, large-group
- Settings
- self-guided, in-person, online, outdoors
- Materials
- Script or audio; seated posture
- Mechanisms
- attention-training, stillness-silence, cognitive-reframing
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice
Origin & where it lives
Jon Kabat-Zinn (popular codification, 'Wherever You Go, There You Are') — Mindfulness-based practice (MBSR lineage)
Instructions: open online
In this directory via The Inner Pathways Guide for Facilitators · Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
A clean cross-pollination case: MBSR-lineage practice carried into sustainability education by Inner Pathways. The metaphor does the work — equanimity taught through image rather than instruction, which is why it lands with groups new to meditation.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25