Getting Started with a Zazen 1 Meditation Practice

If you've been looking into mindfulness lately, you might have stumbled across zazen 1 as a natural starting point for your journey. I remember the first time I tried to sit still for more than five minutes; honestly, it felt like an eternity. My legs were twitching, my nose started itching for no reason, and my brain decided it was the perfect time to replay an embarrassing thing I said in 2014. But that's the thing about starting at square one—it's messy, and that's perfectly fine. ...

February 12, 2026 · 7 min · Josefina Juraj