Cory Muscara
Cory Muscara is a mindfulness teacher, former monk, author of Stop Missing Your Life, and host of Practicing Human, sharing practical ways to feel more present in everyday life.
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Know ThyselfOverview
- Work
- Mindfulness teacher, author, speaker, and podcast host
- Turning point
- Six months in silence as a monk in Burma in 2012
- Education
- Master of Applied Positive Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
- Known for
- Stop Missing Your Life and Practicing Human
Mini bio
How it started.
Cory studied economics and had a Wall Street internship lined up. In his conversation with Cecily Mak, he recalled a meeting with a hedge fund manager that made him question whether that version of success would make him happy. That question helped turn him toward meditation.
Six months in silence.
In 2012, he spent six months in Burma practicing Vipassana meditation for 14 to 20 hours a day. He was ordained under Sayadaw U Pandita in the Mahasi lineage of Theravada Buddhism. Back in everyday life, he began translating that intensive training into practical teachings.
Finding an audience.
His accessible teachings on mindfulness and wellbeing grew into a social media audience of more than a million. Alongside that online work, he has taught mindful leadership at Columbia and positive psychology at Penn, and contributed meditations to apps including Mindfulness.com and 10% Happier.
From practice to the page.
His book Stop Missing Your Life first appeared in December 2019. It explores the protective walls people build around themselves and introduces FACE: Focus, Allow, Curiosity, and Embodiment. His Practicing Human podcast carries that interest in presence into short teachings for daily life.
Creditschronological, newest first
Podcasts
- 2026Undimmed: Clarity, Fatherhood, and Putting Down the BufferGuest
- 2026The Hoffman Podcast: Life is the Meditation CushionGuest
- 2025Know Thyself, episode 146Guest
- 2017–presentPracticing HumanHost
Quotes
If you want to let go, fall madly in love with the part of you that is holding on.Cory Muscara, Practicing Human
The idea he explored in the February 12, 2026 episode “How Letting Go Happens.”
Trivia
- He first became interested in mindfulness while trying to impress a girlfriend in college.
- His training also includes 200-hour hatha yoga teacher certification and integrative health coaching through Duke Integrative Medicine.
- He has described his childhood fascination with butterflies in his own writing.
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