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Recorded on May 15, 2026
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Meditation is widely practiced, yet questions remain about how different techniques shape the mind and body. The Citizen Science Meditation Study explores this by combining large-scale public participation with wearable neurotechnology.
In this webinar, researchers from the Institute of Noetic Sciences and InteraXon share findings from a global study comparing four meditation practices—mindfulness, loving-kindness, nondual, and mantra—alongside an active control. Using the MUSE EEG headband, participants tracked changes in well-being, mood, cognition, brain activity, and heart rate variability over four weeks.
Together, the speakers offer a closer look at how different approaches to meditation may influence mental and physiological states—and what this could mean for the future of meditation research.
Helané Wahbeh, ND, MCR is Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where she leads rigorous interdisciplinary research on consciousness, health, and extended human capacities. She earned a Master of Clinical Research through Oregon Health & Science University’s Human Investigations Program, completed two postdoctoral research fellowships, and received a five-year National Institutes of Health K award for advanced training in clinical research, neuroscience, electrophysiology, and biostatistics. Dr. Wahbeh is especially known for her pioneering research on channeling, has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, and brings more than 25 years of dedicated meditation practice to her work at the frontiers of noetic science.
Arnaud Delorme, PhD, is a neuroscientist at IONS and has been studying human consciousness for the last 20 years. He is a CNRS Research Director in Toulouse, France, and a senior Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego. He is a long-time Zen meditator, and recipient of several research prizes. He is the author of some 160+ peer-reviewed publications, and is best known for his work on the neural correlate of mind wandering and for developing the EEG software that is now the most-used in EEG research worldwide. He is the author of Why Our Minds Wander: Understand the Science and Learn to Focus Your Thoughts.
Loving Kindness Meditations
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cw710KX11Q57_H36lb2jfg1o3IhwlpSM?usp=sharing
Mindful Body Meditations
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Lzo-BXZlZ0b5SD6J9TEhtVIgUOlX5ipo?usp=sharing
Om Chanting Meditations
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14y8AB10wS2Le3wu6Fkptkdvc8G_B59yF?usp=sharing
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