Guided Meditation

Like it or not, you can't avoid people or parts of yourself that seriously frustrate you. The key to peace? Feeling even more connected to them through this meditation.

In this short video Deepak Chopra, M.D., guides you to step back and focus inward in order to establish four intentions for your day.

Discover the science behind your urge to overeat and how the breath can counter it. Here’s your holiday-party, Thanksgiving-table, home-alone-with-the-pie pranayama practice.

A practice that combines energizing and calming principles (brahmana and langhana) has a balancing, or samana, effect to quiet that monkey mind.

Sitting for meditation at the end of a hectic day can feel difficult. This sequence can help you shift gears and transition smoothly into calm.

Keeping your eyes open if your body is listless, your mind dull, or your heart heavy can be a challenge. This 5-pose flow will help awaken your energy for meditation.

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Try this profoundly spiritual kundalini meditation video to cultivate patience, wisdom, and renewal of life.

Water can enhance the power of a meditation—reverberating a mantra’s sound, calming the mind, and encouraging a feeling of nonattachment and weightlessness.

Each morning for the next 30 days, we're taking a moment for gratitude. Learn how to adopt this short-and-sweet daily practice and join us!

This meditation for mothers is meant to evoke feelings that will help ground you in a place of calm and appreciation.

Try this simple 5-step meditation on the question “Who am I?” to look beyond your ego’s definition of you and discover what lies beneath.

In this guided meditation, Mallika Chopra encourages mothers who struggle with accepting support to open up to receiving.

Waiting for a phone call, in line at the grocery store, or for your kids to get out of school? Try this meditation during those in-between moments and feel alive.

Sharon Salzberg writes that by practicing kindness with others and yourself, over and over again, and this is who you become, this is what feels most natural. Start now.

Follow along in the video below to learn how to process your feelings and find peace in the present moment.

Mothers sacrifice sleep, diet, love life to care for their kids. Take a moment to pause and recalibrate yourself for better balance.

Meditation is one part of the practice that has the potential to keep deepening with age. Here are 10 guided meditations to return to for years to come.

Without breath, the prana we cultivate through yoga practice would have no real avenue for circulation; the breath is everything. Try this easy breathing meditation to foster a more effective practice.

Gain insight into the way you can use your reactions to sound to understand yourself better and settle deeply into the present moment.

Deepak Chopra is co-hosting a Global Meditation for Compassion on Saturday, July 11. Use this practice to open your heart anytime.

If you've struggled with meditation but buy into the benefits, it's time to try yoga nidra. This systematic relaxation brings ease to the very deepest layers of our being.

Deepak Chopra empowers children to find positive ways in which they would like to change the world through mindfulness exercises.

Do you sit down for meditation and wonder if you're doing it right? Learn all about the universal meditation posture here.

The breath is just as essential for athletes as it is for yogis. Spend a few minutes with your breath to rebalance after exercise.

Rose Freerick, a Christian meditation teacher, who draws inspiration from the divine, teaches us to find stillness in this centering prayer.

Your intuition is your innermost GPS and one of your greatest allies in life. Sianna Sherman teaches you how to cultivate it.

If the idea of clearing 20 minutes in your schedule feels impossible, turn to this simple meditation you can use anywhere, anytime.

Practice tuning in to your breath and body before a workout to focus and commit to nurturing and strengthening your body.

In this short affirmation-based meditation with Deepak Chopra, M.D., you can use his positive words to shift your thoughts and action.

During this practice, become more attuned to the tastes and textures of foods, providing a satisfying introduction to mindfulness practice.

If you find it difficult to set aside time for seated meditation, this practice can be done informally (even while you’re brushing your teeth!).

For a more compassionate approach to conflict, this meditation works through the essential questions toward empathy.

This video guides you through a practice of acknowledging your feelings without getting caught up in the stories around them.

New research shows mindfulness meditation is a powerful antidote to insomnia. Deepak Chopra leads you to restful sleep in this bedtime video.

During this 10-minute guided meditation, you’ll practice a visualization exercise designed to help you develop care and compassion for yourself.

Want to maximize workout satisfaction? Cultivate presence during exercise to observe all aspects of your experience with this walking meditation video.

The following meditation, when done regularly, brings self-esteem, self-love, and self-healing into the body.

Patience can be hard to come by when faced with problems or obstacles. Use this guided meditation to overcome frustration.

Our mindfulness meditation guide can help you get around roadblocks and on the path to contentment.

Not all meditation has to happen 
sitting still in Lotus Pose. Focus your awareness inward, on the breath and 
the way your body moves with these sequences.

Deepak Chopra, M.D., invites you to take a few moments of mindful attention to center your thoughts in the face of stress.

This meditation by Jamie Zimmerman, M.D., will help you learn to handle food cravings with greater awareness and intention.

This 10-minute video from Sonima will help you become aware of the sensations of waking and mindfully set an intention for the day.

Try this 10-minute guided meditation video to develop the will to cultivate and sustain transformation at the core.

Try this quick and powerful method for counting your blessings before you even get out of bed.

Try these three simple steps every day to ease stress, stop negative thoughts, and feel better.

Feel guilty about praying for favors, especially mundane ones like a new job? Don't.

A 5-minute meditation on the question "Who Am I?" can help you look beyond your ego's definition of you and discover what lies beneath.

Keeping the weight off doesn't always mean eating less. Use this practice to change how you think about food.

When life doesn't go as planned, try this guided meditation to connect to surrender to a source bigger than yourself.

Establish a place of refuge and weather even the toughest of times with grace.

When you treat every act as sacred, you feel the effects in every part of your life.

Open to your body's subtle sensations and discover a spacious new world within.

Connect with your inner light and share with the world.

To encourage a meditative state, find the right gazing spot.

Practice limitless awareness and let yourself be as infinite as the heavens.

You don't have to work for happiness. It's already here to be experienced in every moment.

Connect with your creativity and spirit in this simple meditation.

Get in touch with your inner strength with this meditation on the goddess Kali.

Try this simple Kundalini practice to maintain focus and improve memory.

Explore without limits the Big Mind within you.

Take time one day to be actively conscious of how the rasas show up in your life.

Focusing your attention on the everyday gifts that nature gives can help you cultivate reverence for the earth.

Deepen your connection to the Earth by tapping into the elemental energies swirling within each of us and find new ways to care for her.

Anything that helps to open people's hearts will help not only their blood pressure, but all of life on earth.

Learn how to break the cycle of suffering from "push-pull' thoughts by really embracing stillness.

When you notice yourself feeling constricted, or stagnant, or stuck—all words to describe the same phenomenon—ask yourself what you are resisting.

By approaching the night sky with fresh eyes, you become more intimate with the world. Learn how to cultivate nonconceptual awareness when looking at nature.

Sadness can be a powerful doorway into the heart. The next time you feel loss or sorrow, try this practice for transforming sadness.

Healing meditations should be simple, appealing, and useful.

Slow down, find the gap between thoughts about the past and the future, and discover the loveliness of an ordinary moment.

Set aside 30 minutes, preferably at the end of the day, to try this Naikan practice.

Count your blessings and you'll find that even a "bad" day is filled with precious gifts.

This guided meditation is intended to raise your awareness and ignite curiosity about the world around you.

Amid the cacophony of everyday life, it's not always easy to hear the inner voice that can guide you to the right vacation for right now.

Learn how to explore, welcome, and accept your toughest emotions to begin to make peace with them.

If you think there's no way to get your mind off of discomfort in your body, try this practice to shift how you experience it.

Sat Kriya is one of the most basic and powerful exercises of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan.

Try this calming meditation to keep holiday stress at bay.