Anywhere Anytime

About This Class

This approachable 11-minute meditation with Brian Gallo strips practice down to its simplest form: conscious breath-counting. Drawing from Zen training, Brian teaches students to count exhales from one to ten (or twenty), focusing attention on a single point — the belly, the nose, or the full breath cycle. The genius of the technique is its portability: no mat, no set-aside time, no lifestyle changes required. Brian encourages practitioners to accumulate breaths organically throughout the day — five in bed on waking, ten in the shower, twenty while waiting for coffee — so that by day's end they may have logged thirty or forty minutes of mindfulness without a single formal sit. The class frames everyday annoyances (a pinging text, a long queue) as opportunities to practice rather than triggers for stress, and Brian speaks directly to busy, city-dwelling people who feel they don't have time to meditate. The session closes with a guided group count to twenty, giving students an immediate, embodied experience of the technique.