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Cultivating A Heart Of Gratitude

People often ask: What are the benefits of gratitude? How does gratitude make you happy? How do you practice gratitude, and how can I learn gratitude? Over the next 10 days, you will learn to cultivate a heart filled with gratitude through awareness of the gift of life and all that it offers. By the end of the 10 sessions, you can expect to be equipped with tools to fully appreciate God, parents, teachers, friends, the body, the mind, the breath, and more. Throughout the course, gratitude will be emphasized as an experiential practice and a way of being so you will know how to apply what is learned in this course to everyday situations. Practical suggestions will be given on how to incorporate gratitude into each moment of the day so that joy, peace, and calm will continue to grow in a heart filled with gratitude.

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Meet your Teacher

Brian Hyman

Malibu, CA, USA

Brian Hyman, RYT, is a yoga and meditation teacher, writer, and father. His extensive work with yoga, mindfulness, spirituality, and addiction recovery has been featured in many interviews and articles worldwide. He is a Yoga Ambassador for Lululemon and Manduka and is featured in the yoga book, Inside the Warrior. Brian currently teaches yoga and meditation at an addiction treatment facility in Malibu, CA. He is also writing a book about his personal journey to wellness, which includes overcoming grief, addiction, and chronic pain.

10 Days

6.4k students

4.7 stars

14 min / day

Relationships

English

Lesson 1

Cultivating Gratitude For God

In today's session, we will send gratitude to God, or a Power greater than ourselves, for our precious lives. We will acknowledge thankfulness for the conditions which come together to give us the extraordinary gift of life and acknowledge all living things with gratitude. We will find the beauty of interconnectedness between all things as a perfect reason for thankfulness, and find appreciation for opportunities to use individual talents and skills for the purposes which they were created.

Lesson 2

Cultivating Gratitude For Parents

In today's session, we will acknowledge the gift of life that comes from God, or the Source of all Life, through a mother and father. This will be a lesson in all things to be thankful for that come through a specific lineage. We will discuss how things are passed from one generation to the next, such as spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical attributes.

Lesson 3

Cultivating Gratitude For Teachers

Teachers guide students; that is their role. They help students to avoid trouble; they show students how to unlock their potential in order to grow and learn; they draw out the best qualities of students. Teachers deserve respect and gratitude. In today's session we will call to mind specific moments when a teacher or someone special stood up for us, transmitted their knowledge, and showed us through their example the importance of the teacher-student relationship. We will also look at emotions and the breath as inner teachers.

Lesson 4

Cultivating Gratitude For Children

In today's session, we will focus on the qualities children bring into our lives, such as inquisitiveness, joy, and exuberance. We will find thankfulness for the gift of being able to see through the innocence of their eyes, and express gratitude for opportunities to care for those who are younger, or others less experienced who are in need of help and guidance. We will evoke the mind of the child, filled with curiosity and talk about dreams and projects that need nourishment in order to grow.

Lesson 5

Cultivating Gratitude For Friends

In today's session, we will discuss universal examples of the power of community or fellowship within Buddhism, addiction recovery, and yoga. Our focus will be on unity and the sacredness of being intimately associated with like-minded seekers on a similar path. We will touch upon what Martin Luther King, Jr. once spoke about as being part of a Beloved Community and explore all of these relationships through the lens of gratitude.

Lesson 6

Cultivating Gratitude For The Body

In today's session, we will deepen our relationship with the body and all that it does for us. We will discuss major body parts, their functions, and find gratitude in the fact we can do all of the amazing things the body allows us to do. We will bring awareness to the power of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, and discuss how to be thankful for the body and how to nourish all parts of the body with gratitude.

Lesson 7

Cultivating Gratitude For The Mind

In this session, we will find gratitude for a mind which allows us to discern right from wrong; allows us freedom of choice; and offers myriad opportunities to learn and grow. We will recall people and things we love, and challenge the mind to send love and thankfulness to all people and things. We will realize that without the mind, gratitude does not have a place to be processed properly, and how the mind is quieted through a practice of gratitude.

Lesson 8

Cultivating Gratitude For The Breath

Breath is the source of life; we will find gratitude for this essential fact. In this session, we will realize that awareness of breath is a means to return to the heart where all things are processed and integrated into thoughts, words, and actions. We will find gratitude for the power of the breath to anchor the mind and heart in the present moment, and for the ability of the breath to choreograph the mindfulness of movement.

Lesson 9

Cultivating Gratitude For Challenges

In today's session, we will look at our challenges as moments of grace. We will discuss how assets become liabilities; how to look at the duality of all things. We will see that tests becomes our testimony; messes become our message; pain becomes our purpose. We will see that when challenges are overcome, we become uniquely qualified to help others, and find gratitude for obstacles and handicaps, even if we cannot yet see how they will change the trajectory of our lives.

Lesson 10

Cultivating Gratitude For Opportunities To Serve

In our final session, we will discuss the benefits of service to others and how being of service can remove selfishness, self-obsession, and self-pity from our lives. We will learn that service is synonymous with humility; and it is a spiritual principle that ought to be practiced within all our affairs. We will also discuss the question: “Who can I help today?” as a mantra to be repeated each day.

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This course includes 112 community questions and 13 audio replies from Brian Hyman. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Caroline

November 27, 2025

I think this is one of the very best courses on IT. I absolutely loved it and looked forward to each day. I love Brian's soothing, calming voice and the accompanying music. The words are to live by, simple and yet so moving. I am going to start again from Day 1 to really let it all sink in. Deep gratitude to you Brian for your beautiful work.

gibby

August 31, 2025

Profoundly simple and effective. So valuable. Thank you, Brian, for another crystal clear exploration. I will return to this lesson, as I often do with your work. Grateful.

Maura

November 1, 2023

Strength and hope to know God’s will and the power to carry it out

Delphine

August 17, 2023

Very soothing 🙏🧸

Thomas

June 2, 2023

This has to be one of the best courses I've done! I have been working to strengthen my relationship with gratitude. Looking forward to listening again! Thank you Brian!

Cheryl

April 12, 2023

A beautiful course that grounds us in love ,appreciation, and gratitude.

Christy

March 25, 2023

Great!

Olivia

March 21, 2023

So enjoyable. Thank you so much ❤️

Hisham

January 7, 2023

I have listened to many tracks and courses of Brian for more than a year now. His courses helped me a lot and are still helping to shape my life into a better one than the one I used to live. His lessons are very deep ones. When I relisten to the same lesson twice, I get more of it. When I relisten for the third time I absorb things and digest things and see connections between different courses and tracks that I wasn't seeing at first. This course is a life shaping one.

Anna

January 3, 2023

Thank you

Robert

October 31, 2022

A good course. I believe it softened my hard heart. Lots of wonderful insights and ideas

Joyce

October 30, 2022

I was a good class it helped me think of more things to be grateful for that I hadn’t thought about before.

Meredith

April 1, 2022

I really enjoyed this course-the different angles taken toward gratitude (mind, body, challenges, etc) kept things interesting and I loved the teacher’s vulnerability. Thank you!

Lars

February 18, 2022

Soulful connectedness

Anshu

January 1, 2022

Really helpful. Made one realise the little things in life that we take for granted. Thank you for making me aware how much we have in life and there is so so much to be grateful for.

Vickie

December 13, 2021

One of the best courses I’ve taken to date. Thank you, Brian.

Liliana

September 19, 2021

Thank you for this course 🙏🏼🧡

Batman

September 17, 2021

Very well structured and genuinely useful. Thanks for this.

Penny

September 7, 2021

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