The premise

There is no shortage of meditation content. There is a shortage of meditation content that says what it doesn't know. Most of the web on this subject either sells a subscription, sells a certainty, or quietly copies whatever ranked last year.

We write two kinds of page. Reference guides that try to be the clearest thing available on their subject, and practical work on the place you practise — siting, seating, planting, keeping it alive in February. The second is where we think we have something genuinely useful that nobody else is writing.

A domain with a history

mymeditationgarden.com published from 2009 onward as a personal meditation blog with a different author and a different voice. That site is gone; we did not buy its archive and we do not claim its work. What we did keep is its structure, because the questions people asked it in 2009 are the questions people still ask. Where an old page earned its readers, we have rebuilt a new page at the same address rather than deleting the address. That seemed better than breaking every link ever made to it.

How this site makes money

Plainly, because you should be able to check it:

• Commercial links to Minerals Kingdom, an online shop belonging to the same publishing group. These are always marked as commercial, always optional, and never determine what a page says. Details on our affiliate disclosure page.
• Paid courses, when they launch. They will be sold openly, priced openly, and will never be a condition of reading anything here.
• No sponsored articles. We do not sell posts, links or "partner content". If you email us asking to buy one, the answer is no.

Who publishes it

The Quiet Garden is published by KEVALEX Group, a French company that publishes a number of independent specialist sites. Publication director: Kevin Papot. Full details on the legal notice.

Who writes it, and how it is checked, is on our editorial team page.

What we will never do

• Tell you meditation cures, treats or heals anything.
• Publish a page written by nobody, signed by nobody.
• Invent a teacher, a credential or a testimonial.
• Leave an error up quietly. Corrections are dated at the bottom of the page they belong to.