You can experience the benefits of meditation for free, from the comfort of your own home. According to research, meditation can reduce stress and help manage anxiety. Take your relaxation to the next level with these incredible free meditation classes.
Let’s Meditate: Sleep & Guided Meditation
Let’s Meditate is a highly rated free app with a range of impressive features. You can use the app offline, access a diverse collection of guided meditations for free, and set meditation reminders so that you can build a routine. Let’s Meditate has a vast selection of short and long meditations that cover different topics including anxiety, healing and sleep. There is something for everyone.
Yoga With Adriene
Adriene is a Youtube star with over 7 million subscribers, known for her calming and soothing videos. Her channel focuses on yoga, but she also produces some stellar meditation videos. Check out her Meditate playlist for a range of brilliant yoga and meditation videos to help you relax and unwind, including a very handy meditation to help you start your day.
Insight Timer
Insight Timer is a nifty free meditation app with over 1 million downloads, a Google Play Editor’s Choice award and an average rating of 4.8. The app includes a staggering 40,000 plus meditation and soothing tracks and is home to the largest meditation community on earth. Insight Timer includes polyphonic bell timers for meditating, relaxing stories and sounds to help you sleep deeply, expert recordings to help you manage anxiety, free meditation courses and more. It’s an incredible free resource.
Ten Percent Happier
Every day, Ten Percent Happier hosts live ‘sanity break’ videos that include an audience Q&A and a short guided meditation. The videos are a useful tool for breaking up a busy schedule making sure that you get a few minutes to yourself each day. You catch the videos every weekday at 8 pm.
Copper Beech Institute
The Copper Beech Institute is a non-profit organisation that aims to make the world a better place through mindfulness and meditation. They are offering a range of free and affordable online classes via Zoom throughout the lockdown, and potentially beyond. They include mindfulness, meditation, candlelight meditation, yoga and a Workplace Round Table. The only catch is that the candlelight meditation class takes place at midnight due to timezone differences. All the other sessions happen at 5:30 pm. Take advantage of this fantastic opportunity today.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Enjoy free meditation sessions on YouTube with a former Tibetan Buddhist monk. Yongey’s first book, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, has been translated into over twenty languages. On its release, it featured in the New York Times bestseller list. Yongey’s videos are surprisingly relaxing and well worth a look. You can look at his live stream schedule here.
Try Meditation Today
You can improve your mental health, sleep and performance for free. Learn more about meditation, how it can benefit you and how to do it effectively today.
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