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Bayside Meditation We offer online as well as on-site meditation service. Everyone knows meditation is good. We practic

10/13/2026

Lying awake while your mind replays the whole day? 🌙
A 2026 study found that 8 weeks of meditation cut the share of poor sleepers from 50% to 18% — falling asleep got easier, sleep got deeper, and stress eased too. Rest is a practice.
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Listening together. Taking time to write. Pausing for meditation. 💚On October 10, we gathered at our Bayside center to j...
10/13/2026

Listening together. Taking time to write. Pausing for meditation. 💚
On October 10, we gathered at our Bayside center to join a World Mental Health Day event on Zoom. The session brought together mental health insights, guided journaling, inspiring stories, and meditation, giving us time to turn our attention inward.
We followed the journaling prompts, reflected on what we were carrying, and made space to pause together. A Saturday gathering with time for ourselves and time alongside our community.
Thank you to everyone who joined us. Here’s to making room for mental well-being in our everyday lives, one pause at a time. 🌿

10/09/2026

Your brain has a fluid circulation system that helps carry away waste. Could meditation influence how it moves?

A Vanderbilt-led MRI study found that 23 experienced meditators showed changes in cerebrospinal fluid movement during focused-attention meditation. Backward flow decreased in one brain passage, and some fluid fluctuations resembled patterns reported during sleep.

These findings suggest a possible role for meditation in supporting the brain’s waste-clearance processes.

Curious about meditation? Explore our guided practice at a free intro session in Bayside, Queens. Book through the link in our bio.

Source: Keating et al., PNAS (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2504961122

💚 World Mental Health Day — a moment to pause and reconnect.Join Bayside Meditation for a free hour of mental health ins...
10/07/2026

💚 World Mental Health Day — a moment to pause and reconnect.

Join Bayside Meditation for a free hour of mental health insights, guided journaling, inspiration, and meditation.

📅 Saturday, October 10, 2026
🕙 10–11 AM Eastern
📍 43-24 220th Pl, Bayside, NY 11361

Come to our center to join the online program together, or participate from home. For online attendance, select “Online” when registering and leave your email. We’ll send you the joining link separately.

Save your spot through the link in our bio. We’d love to have you with us!

10/06/2026

Your brain can start rewiring in just 7 days — no drugs, just meditation. 🧠

UC San Diego researchers followed 20 adults through a week-long meditation retreat (~33 hours of practice). Brain scans showed quieter self-criticism networks and a more efficient, in-sync brain — while their post-retreat blood plasma helped lab-grown neurons grow longer branches. The plasma also showed higher BDNF, a protein linked to brain plasticity.

Worth knowing: this was an intensive week-long program, and the study was small (20 people), uncontrolled, and observational — so take it as early evidence, not proof.

Save this for a friend who says they "don't have time to meditate" 🤍

📍 Bayside, Queens • In person + online

You know nothing is seriously wrong. You've already thought it through a hundred times. And yet — your mind goes right b...
10/05/2026

You know nothing is seriously wrong. You've already thought it through a hundred times. And yet — your mind goes right back to it. 🌀

Overthinking isn't you being bad at thinking. It's your mind stuck in a familiar loop: replaying conversations, imagining worst cases, questioning decisions you've already made.

Here's one question that helps: "Is this thought helping me take a useful next step — or am I repeating the same mental conversation?"

Telling yourself to "just stop thinking" rarely works. But there's a way to notice thoughts with a little distance, without forcing them to disappear. I wrote about how it works (and 4 ways to practice it in guided meditation) here:

👉 https://www.baysidemeditation.org/post/why-cant-i-stop-overthinking

Not every thought needs an answer. 💛

📍 Bayside, Queens • In person + online
🎁 Free 45-minute 1-on-1 intro session: link in bio



https://www.baysidemeditation.org/post/why-cant-i-stop-overthinking

A new season can begin while your mind is still carrying the last one.An unfinished conversation. A worry about work. Th...
09/23/2026

A new season can begin while your mind is still carrying the last one.

An unfinished conversation. A worry about work. The feeling that you should be doing more.

As fall routines pick up, you may notice how much you’ve been holding onto.

At Bayside Meditation, we guide you through a method of looking back and letting go of accumulated thoughts, emotions, and memories—step by step.

Start with a free, 45-minute intro session. Meet a guide, learn about the method, and try it for yourself.

📍 Bayside, Queens · In person or online
Book through the link in our bio.

09/15/2026

You were fine… until you started comparing.

Someone else’s life can start to feel like a measure of your own — their success, their relationships, their pace.

But their path is not your pressure.

Come back to yourself.

Sometimes, a clearer mind begins by letting go of what was never yours to carry.

Bayside Meditation · Queens, NYC

06/30/2026

What an incredible day! Our International Yoga Day event was an absolute success, filled with positive energy, mindfulness, and community.
Thank you to Friends of Crocheron for organizing this great event.
Ambeka Khadse and John Shahidi guided us to celebrate wellness and connection. It was truly inspiring to see so many people come together to share the practice of yoga and meditation.
We hope you left feeling refreshed, centered, and motivated to continue your practice. Stay tuned for more upcoming events—we can‘t wait to see you again soon!

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4324 220th Place
Bayside, NY
11361

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 9pm
Tuesday 9am - 9pm
Wednesday 9am - 9pm
Thursday 9am - 9pm
Friday 9am - 9pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 2pm

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+17182253472

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