Rebecca Eldridge Leads East Coast Mindfulness Worldwide Online Sit Feb 26 2026

Rebecca Eldridge posted the recording of her Worldwide Online Sit to Vimeo on February 26, 2026 under the upload title "Loving will break your heart. Let it." The session is identified in East Coast Mindfulness and Eldridge materials as part of the free Weekly Worldwide Online Sit offering that runs 12:15 - 12:45PM US Eastern Time every Thursday.

East Coast Mindfulness presents the sit as part of its always-online programming, using the tagline "Always online. Your space. Your time zone. Your life." Rightbraincomm and ECM copy describe the offering alternately as a "free weekly Global Online Meditation Community" and a "Weekly Worldwide Online Sit (Free Offering)," indicating the Vimeo posting fits within an ongoing global schedule rather than a one-off event.

Eldridge holds multiple formal roles tied to the sit. She is Executive Director and co-founder of East Coast Mindfulness, Senior Certified Teacher, MBSR, and an MBSR Teacher-trainer. She previously served as a senior MBSR Teacher Trainer at the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School until the center closed in July 2019, and she co-founded ECM with Margaret Fletcher to continue offering programs globally after that closure.

Her work in online MBSR is documented in the record: Eldridge "pioneered teaching MBSR Live Online at the UMass Center for Mindfulness," created the training for CFM faculty to deliver their first online MBSR course in 2016, and taught the first online Fundamentals training at CFM. Rightbraincomm states, "Rebecca was chosen to train CFM faculty to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) online in a way that is interactive, effective, and fun."

Eldridge is also active in assessment and research tools for MBSR teaching. She is certified as a calibrated rater using the MBI-TAC tool and is a co-author of MBI-PAT, described as "developed and validated across multiple studies" and aimed at "giving voice to participants' perspective on teaching quality in an MBSR course." She is a member of the International Mindfulness Integrity Network, described as "a worldwide group of teacher trainers exploring ethics and standards of mindfulness training programs."

East Coast Mindfulness frames its work with mission language including "A Place of Healing & Mutual Respect" and the explicit claim that "East Coast Mindfulness provides expert online MBSR teaching and high level training for others to teach the MBSR course with high integrity and depth." ECM also runs the Mindfulness Grad Online Community, which "gathers monthly under the guidance of MBSR Teacher and Teacher Trainer Rebecca Eldridge" on the second Sunday of each month, and lists activities such as teachings, practice, silent reflection, and speaking & listening. Rebecca’s personal site reiterates ECM’s training claims, including the verbatim line, "East Coast Mindfulness now offers the first and only training program resulting in certification in teaching MBSR online: Train to Teach MBSR Live Online Live Online")."

The Vimeo posting on February 26, 2026 adds a recorded instance to ECM’s stated always-online offerings and keeps available a practice session led by a teacher whose lineage includes Pema Chödrön and who was featured in Pema Chödrön courses "Making Friends with Yourself" and "How to Live with Compassion and Courage." For direct contact, Rebecca Eldridge lists rebecca@rebeccaeldridge.com.