free online resources on meditation and mindfulness. ideally free, downloadable and no sign-up required
- ⭐️ QuietKit (mp3) short guided meditation on the breath with different lengths available; with ambient background (≤10mins)
- self-compassion.org (mp3) 7 self-compassion meditations by Dr. Kristin Neff (5-20mins)
- SF Center for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (mp3) 29 guided meditations on the breath, acceptance and compassion (3-30mins)
- UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (mp3) 8 guided meditations by UCLA MARC's Director of Mindfulness Education, Diana Winston
(3-20mins)
- ⭐️ How to find your mindfulness (html) What is mindfulness and where can one individually find and live it - from psyche.co (medium)
- How to Meditate by SpiritRock.org (html) Short introduction to insight, mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation with instructions (short)
- Mindfulness in Plain English (html/epub) Henepola Gunaratana on insight meditation for the lay person (long)
- Radical Compassion (html/str) Tara Brach on Radical Compassion and her 4-step approach - RAIN (long)
- ⭐️ Mindfulness Daily by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield (str/sign) 40-day audio-guided training covering Mindful Basics, Emotional Intelligence, Resilience, Healing and Inner Freedom as well as Mindful Living; each session starts with a ~5mins talk and is followed by a meditation practice (<15mins)
- The 30 Day Meditation Challenge (yt) Guided meditations on mindfulness and compassion (10-25mins)
- ⭐️ A Soft Murmur (str/app) Adjustable ambient noisescapes
- Silent Meditation Timers (mp3) Bells and Gongs for Silent meditations of different lengths (5-60mins)
- generative.fm (str/mp3) Ambient generative music to stream or download, some pieces are very calm others more engaging
- Coffitivity (str) Different cafe ambient soundscapes
- ⭐️ Ten Percent Happier (rss) Podcast by ABC TV host Dan Harris and guests (>1hr)
- Tara Brach's Podcast (rss/yt) This podcasts features a meditation (<20mins) and a talk (<1hr) every week
- ⭐️ Medito App (and/ios/mp3) Free and open-source meditation app by the Medito Foundation, with lots of guided meditations, e.g. 30d challenge, loving-kindness, beginner course.
(and) android app
(epub) ebook for download
(html) read in browser
(ios) ios app
(mp3) mp3 file for download
(rss) rss podcast feed
(sign) sign-up required
(str) stream
(yt) youtube
- ...
Contributions welcome!
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