FREE MEDITATION RESOURCES
Skin Secrets: How to Improve the Look of Your Skin with Meditation
30 minutes of meditation is all you need to find your centre and stop overstressing. Vitiligo, eczema, acne, and psoriasis can be treated well with regular meditation.
10 Eco-Friendly Ways to Relax this Winter
After weeks of excitement, you may want to curl up, unwind and live your best minimalist life. Here are 10 eco-friendly ways to relax this winter.
Release All Your Pent-Up Stress With Shaking Meditation
Meditation doesn’t necessarily have to be a completely static practice—as proven by shaking meditation.
Types of Meditation
Here’s a breakdown of some of the more popular types of meditation to get you started.
Meditation tips | What’s the best time to meditate?
It’s always a good time to be in the moment. But for your meditation practice, think: same time, same place.
Building a Stable Meditation Practice
In this short video, Mingyur Rinpoche shares how to establish a healthy meditation practice, one that will bring about long-term results.
10-Minute Meditation For Anxiety
Take a moment and let this guided meditation relieve your anxiety.
Relaxing Music 24/7, Stress Relief Music, Sleep Music, Meditation Music, Study, Calming Music
Use this soothing music as relaxing music to sleep, relax and promote healing meditation and Zen.
Meditation to Spring Clean the Mind
Spring: Time to clear away the clutter… inside and out.
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Spring Meditation: Come Alive this Season
Here is a meditation for spring that you use to feel inspired.
Guided Meditation for Positive Energy, Relaxation, Peace
Enjoy this 20 minute guided meditation for positive energy, relaxation and peace, with an emphasis on gratitude, visualization and positive affirmations. This is a good meditation for beginners and all levels.
Meditation 101: Techniques, Benefits, and a Beginner’s How-To
Meditation is an approach to training the mind, similar to the way that fitness is an approach to training the body. But many meditation techniques exist — so how do you learn how to meditate?
How to Meditate
When we meditate, we inject far-reaching and long-lasting benefits into our lives: We lower our stress levels, we get to know our pain, we connect better, we improve our focus, and we’re kinder to ourselves. Let us walk you through the basics in our new mindful guide on how to meditate.
TEDx Talk – How Mindfulness Changes the Emotional Life of Our Brains by Richard J. Davidson
“Why is it that some people are more vulnerable to life’s slings and arrows and others more resilient?” In this eye-opening talk, Richard Davidson discusses how mindfulness can improve well-being and outlines strategies to boost four components of a healthy mind: awareness, connection, insight, and purpose.
Exhale
The first emotional wellbeing app for and by black, indigenous women of color (BIPOC). The app inspires self-care, mindfulness and rest throughout content curated by BIWOC – including meditations, coaching talks, affirmations, guided visualizations, and breath work.
iOS: Exhale
Moodnotes App
Moodnotes lets you document your entire experience with anxiety in all of its forms. Built on cognitive behavioral therapy techniques and positive psychology, this app lets you understand and manage the entire experience of anxiety.
iOS: Moodnotes
J. Brown Yoga Talks – Podcast
Discuss all things Yoga with J. Brown, a yoga teacher, writer, and podcaster. He is at the forefront of a quiet yoga revolution, based in healing, that seeks to change the dialogue and direction of yoga practice
Stress Free Naturally – Podcast
Join Holistic Health Practitioner and All Around Life-Hacker, Ashlie Pappas for an oasis from your crazy busy life. You know who you are, you give your time for everyone except yourself. You will find peace of mind, less stress, and a new perspective – all in less time than it takes to pick the kids up from school!
iOS
Mindful Breathing
Feel more settled and calm by spending a few minutes focused on your breathing. A 5-minute Mindful Breathing mindfulness meditation created by Stop, Breathe & Think.
YouTube
Breathwrk App – iOS App
Breathwrk is a simple yet powerful way to alleviate anxiety, increase energy, improve focus, and help you fall asleep. Feel the difference almost immediately with free guided breathing exercises that are backed by science and research.
Stress Free You – Podcast
An innovative podcast about freeing yourself from the burden of stress so you can live a healthier, happier life, based on the best-selling book by Matt Rush and Rich Taylor.
My Oasis: Calming and Relaxing App – iOS/Android App
Peaceful sounds and calming music help bring you to a zen state in My Oasis. The island builder lets your Oasis gradually expand while you interact with the surrounding life in a relaxing atmosphere. Relaxation and simple tapper gameplay will calm your mind before you know it.
Happify
This app is like a gym membership for your emotional health. The first time you open Happify, you’re prompted to select a track that best meets your needs — whether it’s finding more “me” time or getting better at handling stress. Each track is designed by an expert using the latest scientific research and full of quick, daily activities, including games, mindful meditations, and assessments.
Meditation Studio: Find Calm
Rather than try a general practice that focuses on relaxation, this app offers meditations catered to your needs, whether it’s anxiety, stress, happiness, or gratitude. And best of all, it’s a one-time fee for access to more than 160 meditations. Want to kickstart a practice? Check out this 10-day series to begin.
Brain.FM
Functional music to improve focus. This app is designed to declutter your mind with various sounds. It’s main features are audio brainwave training, personalized brainwave training, and meditation sessions. The app tracks your progress and shows data on habits like productivity, focus, and hindsight.
Buddhify
The central idea in Buddhify is that you don’t have to find time for meditation, instead it comes to you. That is why their meditations are categorized by what you’re doing or how you’re feeling. So you’ll find guided meditations for Walking, Stress & Difficult Emotion, Work Break, Going to Sleep, Waking Up and more. Sessions last from 4 – 30 minutes.
Grateful: A Gratitude Journal
Grateful was created to make expressing gratitude in your life both easy and fun, as well as to remind you, during those down moments, of the many blessings in your life.
Sanvello for Stress & Anxiety
With Spotify playlists to enhance your mood, a variety of calming soundscapes, and meditations for anxiety and depression, you’ll feel better in just a few minutes. Plus, you can track your moods, set goals, and rewire negative thinking patterns.
Habitica
Habitica is a free habit-building and productivity app that treats your real life like a game. With in-game rewards and punishments to motivate you and a social network to inspire you, achieve your goals with Habitica.
Return to Now – Namaste Music
1 hour of relaxing Zen Music for Massage, Yoga and Meditation #peace.
Quick 11 Min Chakra Tun-Up with Himalayan Singing Bowls
Instructions: Breathe deeply and give good energy to every Chakra with every note of the Himalayan Singing Bowls. 7 Bowls are used – 1 for each Chakra – each bowl is struck 3 times. Start with the Root Chakra at the base of the spine and work your way up to the highest Chakra at the top of the head… until all 7 Chakras are in alignment.
Great Meditation
Clear your mind and become present to the moment using these guided mindfulness meditations. Start your day the right way!
Goodful: 5-, 10- and 15- Minute Meditations
Take a moment to clear your mind and find your inner calm with these quick guided meditation videos you can do anywhere.
Chillhop Music
Welcome to Chillhop Radio, playing the best jazzy, lo-fi hip hop beats to get you through your day. Play this in the background at home to help keep you mind at ease.
Meditation For Beginners – Russell Brand
In this video, Russell Brand will help you learn a very simple technique to meditate. This is a meditation that is suitable for beginners or anyone looking to start meditating…or at least try it out.
Yellow Brick Cinema
Yellow Brick Cinema – home of the world’s most relaxing music to relax and unwind. Their composers produce relaxing music with binaural beats and state-enhancing frequencies to help you relax, sleep, focus, meditate and heal.
Naturespace
Unlike conventional recordings, Naturespace goes far beyond simple entertainment. This massive catalog is a multi-faceted solution for creating a calm and balanced mental state by transporting you to the world’s most benevolent natural environments. Unparalleled for managing stress and anxiety, insomnia, tinnitus, and PTSD, these recordings are also a fantastic tool for enhancing focus and concentration, stimulating the imagination, fueling creativity, and eliminating distractions by masking unwanted noise.
Wim Hof Breathing Method
Need a minute for yourself to relax, take a breath and reset? This 11-minute YouTube by Wim Hof is the perfect video for breathing and relaxation.
The Science of Well-Being
Yale University opened up its most popular student lecture, “The Science of Well-Being”, to the public online. It talks about the science and studies behind what actually improves our quality of life and reveals the misconceptions as to what we think makes us happy. The course will take your through a series of challenges designed to increase your own happiness and build more productive habits.
The Honest Guys
Free guided meditation, without the fluff. Relaxing music, nature sounds, guided sleep talk-downs, and affirmations, all on this YouTube channel.
Positive Magazine
This channel offers daily meditations that are between 1-10 minutes long. Topics include anxiety, healing, depression, sleep, and parenting, and affirmation playlists.
Meditative Mind
Meditation music, mantra chants and other resources for meditation, relaxation and sleep.
Tara Brach
Free guided meditations offered by Tara Brach, Ph.D, psychologist, author and teacher of meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening.
Chopra Center Meditation
Join Deepak Chopra, Oprah and millions of meditators around the world for a free 21-day meditation experience. A guided journey to experience the benefits of meditation in an inspiring way.
UCLA Health
Tune in for an introduction to mindfulness meditation that you can practice on your own. Download the UCLA Mindful app (iOS/Android) or stream online. Recordings are by UCLA MARC’s Director of Mindfulness Education, Diana Winston.
Mindful.org
Let your brilliance shine with three days of guided mindfulness practices to revitalize your body and mind and help you shift into springtime.
Meditation Minis Podcast by Chel Hamilton
Award-winning guided meditation podcast for anxiety, stress, sleep and confidence. Designed by hypnotherapist Chel Hamilton to help you feel better in 10(ish) minutes or less.
10% Happier Podcast
Dan Harris, co-anchor of ABC’s Nightline, discusses his newfound appreciation for meditation. He has guests (including neuroscientists, meditation professionals, psychologists, and leading health experts) come on his show to talk about how to train your mind.
Meditation Oasis Podcast
Guided meditations, instruction for meditation and music for stress relief in traumatic and difficult times.
PAID MEDITATION RESOURCES
Reflectly
How you’re feeling on a daily basis matters. Reflectly is a personal journal driven by AI to help you deal with negative thoughts and increase positivity. Your self-care and mental health should always be a priority. Reflectly uses positive psychology, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt) to help you thrive. It gives you the tools and mindset to build a positive cycle with our habit tracker.
iOS
“Mindful at Work” Workshop
Taught by an experienced group of faculty and guests from Naropa University who combine decades of business and mindfulness experience, Mindful at Work is a self-paced course that can help you overcome stress, improve communication, compassion, and confidence.
Headspace
Headspace is a global leader in mindfulness and meditation through its app and online content. They offer inspiration, guidance, and support to living a mindful life.
Calm
Calm is an app for sleep and relaxation meditation, built to help you feel calm in a natural way and switch from ‘ready for action’ to ‘rest”.
Aura
Aura is a meditation app that helps you relieve stress and anxiety through mindful meditations, stories, life coaching and more. Learn from the world’s top therapists with tracks as short as 3 minutes.
Omvana
Whether you are a seasoned meditator, or you are just getting started, Omvana gives you access to hundreds of tracks for all levels. Soothing meditations for stress management to attracting abundance to visualizing your ideal future and more.
Simple Habit
Simple Habit is a 5-minute meditation app designed to help busy people stress less and achieve more.
Shine
Calm anxiety and stress with skills to worry less and live more. Daily meditations paired with motivational messages. Bedtime and mediation stories. Digital support from the Shine community.
Insight Timer
40,000+ guided meditations and talks led by the world’s top meditation and mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists, and teachers. Suitable for beginners to experienced practitioners.
FREE GUIDED MEDITATION
11-Minute Awareness of Breath Practice
Susan Kaiser-Greenland guides us through one of the oldest meditation practices called “Sit and Know You’re Sitting.” Give it a try!
Breathing Compassion In and Out
A 20-minute compassion meditation, first directing kind phrases to ourselves and then to others.
The Den Meditation – A Guided Meditation
A joy meditation from the Den Meditation.
Mindfulness Guided Meditation
This is a mindfulness video that is a guided meditation by Dr. Robert E. Dinenberg and has been layered with ocean waves.
3-Minute Mindful Breathing Meditation
Feel more settled and calmer by spending a few minutes focused on your breathing. A 3-minute Mindful Breathing mindfulness meditation created by Stop, Breathe & Think.
Blissful Deep Relaxation by The Honest Guys
This guided meditation will gently ease you into a state of blissfully deep relaxation.
Instrumental Music 24/7
Beautiful instrumental music 24/7, featuring music composed by Peder B. Helland. This live radio (relaxing piano, guitar, cello, violin, flute music and more) is meant for stress relief and relaxation, but it can also be used for focus/concentration, sleeping, meditation and yoga as well.
The Breathscape Practice for Cultivating Mindfulness
20-minute meditation to practice tapping into your capacity to be in touch with your experience, and to be awake and aware with no agenda other than to be awake and aware.
An Inquiring Practice to Notice the Body
This 20-minute guided meditation from Jon Kabat-Zinn explores embracing sensations as they arise in the body to ground ourselves in the here and now.
A Guided Walking Meditation to Savor the Day
This 9-minute guided walking meditation from Jon Kabat-Zinn explores embracing mindfulness with every footfall—varying the practice for speed and distance.
A 5-Minute Gratitude Practice: Savor the Moment
This 5-minute mindfulness practice cultivates gratitude for life’s small delights as you move through the senses.
A One-Minute Grounding Meditation
Feeling frazzled? Nature can support us in settling down. Try this short grounding meditation practice with Cara Bradley.
A Meditation on Observing Thoughts, Non-Judgmentally
This guided meditation from Jon Kabat-Zinn lets thoughts come and go, so you can avoid getting sucked into them.
MEDITATION TED TALKS
Ted Talk: Talks to Watch When you Need Five Minutes of Peace
Calming, short talks to watch when you just want to peach out for a bit.
Ted Talk: Slow down! Enjoy life.
The world is moving fast. These talks will inspire you to take time to process it all.
Ted Talk: Talks to help you manage stress
Sometimes life can feel like a bit of a mess, but these talks are here to help you de-stress.