Cheetah House Courses
Resources for understanding and navigating meditation-related adverse effects
Featured Courses
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Letters to My Former Self - Lama Adam Bener
CourseIn this series, meditators who have worked with Cheetah House courageously share with us their stories--the circumstances of their meditation-related challenges, the responses they had to them, and their trajectories of healing and growth.
Free
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Beyond The Extended Mind
CourseDr. Krueger takes a deep dive into the philosophical underpinnings of scaffolding, rooted in “externalism” or how our senses-of-self are co-created (or “scaffolded”) through objects in the world, including AI-based technologies. ✅ 1 CE Credit
$40
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Meditation Sickness
CourseWhile contemporary science is just beginning to explore these phenomena, Buddhist communities across Asia have warned about “meditation sickness” for millennia. Could these materials transform the way we approach meditation in the west? ✅ 1CE Credit
$40
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Meditation, Culture, and Enlightenment Machines
CourseProf. David McMahan analyzes the role of culture in meditation & explains how meditative practices are inevitably embedded in a context of ideas, ideals, cultural sensibilities, and taken-for-granted assumptions. ✅ 1 CE Credit
$40
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Behind the Scenes at The Retreat with Madison Marriage
CourseMadison discusses the podcast series, The Retreat, which examined a popular global network of silent meditation retreats & the impact they had on some participants. Hear about the response to the podcast from fans of the network, insiders, & more.
$30
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Mindfulness and Neurodiversity
CourseHow does mindfulness meditation affect different kinds of brains and minds? ✅ 1 CE Credit
$40
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Considerations of Help & Harm - Van Dam
CourseGiven the prominence of meditation in society, what do we know about for whom it works, how well it works, and for whom it doesn’t work? ✅ 1 CE Credit
$40
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Causes and Effects of Unusual Experiences in Face-Gazing Meditations - Philip deslippe
CourseFace gazing can induce unusual experiences such as perceptual distortions, as well as audio and visual hallucinations. We explore why these experiences happen to practitioners and what are their personal and social consequences. ✅ 1 CE Credit
$40
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Nutrition & Mental Health - Monique Aucoin
CourseDr. Monique Aucoin reviews the latest research on the role of nutrition in the development and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders.
$40
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Sense Foraging
CourseIs your mindfulness practice unbalanced? Learn about common imbalances and how to rebalance them with one of the world's leading mindfulness researchers. ✅ 1 CE Credit
$40
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Letters to My Former Self - Jennifer Lang
CourseIn this series, meditators who have worked with Cheetah House courageously share with us their stories--the circumstances of their meditation-related challenges, the responses they had to them, and their trajectories of healing and growth.
Free
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Mindfulness for All? Mental health promotion evidence review
CourseWho benefits from mindfulness training and who doesn't? Learn to decode the science and differentiate fact from fiction. ✅ 1 CE Credit
$50
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The Dark Nights of the Soul in Abrahamic Meditative Traditions
CourseDr. Nathan Fisher guides you through his extensive research into meditation practice related challenges in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, illuminating their conceptions of path, goal, and the potential value of "dark night" experiences.
$50
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Letters to My Former Self - Sarah Fuss Kessler
CourseIn this series, meditators who have worked with Cheetah House courageously share with us their stories--the circumstances of their meditation-related challenges, the responses they had to them, and their trajectories of healing and growth.
Free
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Letters to My Former Self - Rachael Petersen
CourseIn this series, meditators who have worked with Cheetah House courageously share with us their stories--the circumstances of their meditation-related challenges, the responses they had to them, and their trajectories of healing and growth.
Free
Main instructors
Regular contributors to Cheetah House courses
Willoughby Britton, Ph.D.
Dr. Willoughby Britton is founder of Cheetah House and director of the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab at Brown University.
Jared Lindahl, PhD
Dr. Jared Lindahl has been leading the data collection, analysis, and writing of papers for the Varieties of Contemplative Experience study since 2014.
David Cooper
David Cooper has been a research associate and project coordinator on the Varieties of Contemplative Experience study since 2014. His contributions include recruitment, interviews, data analysis, and both lead and co-authorship on nearly every project publication.
Guest instructors
Nicholas Canby, PhD
Dr. Canby holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and specializes in the assessment of self-boundary phenomenology across various contexts, including meditation, psychedelics, and psychopathology.
Sarah Strohmaier, PhD
Dr. Sarah Strohmaier is a Psychology lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Her PhD in Psychology explored the role of dose in mindfulness-based programs and practices to improve wellbeing.
Annie Murphy Paul
Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Scientific American, Slate, Time magazine, and The Best American Science Writing, among many other publications. She is the author of The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain and two other books.
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