Summary: During her graduate studies, a training injury derailed Dr. Sara Lazar’s aspirations to run the Boston Marathon. During her recovery she discovered yoga and was surprised to find that she felt calmer and less reactive after. She and her team in the Department of Psychiatry at have investigated how meditation affects the brain and were the first to show the connection between meditation and cortical thickening. In this episode, she discusses her work and how to integrate meditation into a busy life.
