Guided Meditation

We examined the science behind five high-tech meditation aids to find out if they're worth the hype.

Here's how to call on this powerful deity when you need your strength most.

Take a (comfy) seat on one of these props created by seasoned sitters.

One Yoga Journal editor replaced her daily meditation practice with ASMR YouTube videos for a week. Here’s what happened.

Yoga Journal's June cover model Chrissy Carter shares her 5 best tips for being a better partner in your relationship.

Happy National Meditation Month! If you haven't already made meditation a regular part of your yoga practice, here are four more reasons to try it.

Meditation can help you clearly see the small but mighty steps that are within your power to reduce your footprint and celebrate the Earth in a meaningful way.

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You might want to kickstart this as a regular practice.

Adulting is hard, but so is kid-ing. In fact, kids are more stressed than ever. Meditation can give them perspective on their thoughts and feelings the same way it does for us. Try this practice from yoga teacher and author Susan Verde with your child.

Still dread back-to-school time? Try these tips and a guided practice with Coby Kozlowski to break free of your end-of-summer blues.

Need a minute? How about 30. Take time to center yourself with this calming playlist, designed to help you really drop in.

Being hard on yourself? These tips from our partner, Meditation Studio, can show you how to practice self-compassion.

This guided meditation is designed to help you feel that something has your back, so you can open your heart.

Prepare for a life-changing Sun Salutation practice with Shiva Rea’s Prana Flow pranams.

Meditation isn't a short-term prescription. It's a practice that continues day in and day out for the rest of your life. Here's how to play the long game.

In the following from our partner Meditation Studio, yoga and meditation teacher Ashley Turner suggests 6 steps to manifest what you want to create this springtime.

Let your meditation practice take you places you never thought possible.

Meditation can help you find your soul and heal your body. Here’s how to get started with a healing practice.

A meditation practice on how to find happiness, even in your darkest hour.

This basic technique has the power to transform life’s challenges.

Just when you have the greatest need for meditation and the least amount of time to actually meditate, we have conveniently aggregated our best practices of the year. Happy holidays!

Even your negative thoughts want you to find inner peace. Practice welcoming opposite thoughts in meditation.

Meditate on your feelings to get calm, grounded, and healthy.

Meditation is a procedure of cleansing the mind and taking out the garbage in the subconscious. These three Kundalini practices passed down by Yogi Bhajan will help you release conscious and subconscious fears that cause stress, worry, and anxiety.

Spiritual teacher Eiman Al Zaabi shares how the practice of inquiry can both calm the mind and help you find meaning.

Practice moving your attention into your chest and heart space, where you receive and give love.

Meditating on your breathing can help you feel calm, grounded, and connected.

Enjoy robust breathing, a free mind, and a bird’s-eye view with a light heart.

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Meditate on physical sensations, known as bodysensing, in order to feel calm, grounded, and healthy.

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Use this simple meditation to encourage your mind to rest and enable your body to recharge so it can come back strong.

What does it mean to "sit with discomfort"? In Stephanie Snyder's meditation, you'll dissolve emotional blocks to experience deep joy.

Richard Miller explains how meditating on what it means to just be can help you feel healthy and whole. Try his practice.

Find peace and empowerment in this guided meditation from Sonima and Elena Brower using mantra and affirmation to expand consciousness and increase joy.

Meditation can help us get in touch with the universal life force that connects us all. Here's how to align with your shakti.

In this guided meditation from Sonima, find balance and light through breath awareness that will uplift your practice of parenting.

If you can't set aside dedicated time to meditate, this practice from Sonima will help guide you to higher awareness wherever you are.

Yoga nidra, also known as “yogic sleep” is also a wonderful alternative to sleeping pills for anyone suffering from stress-induced insomnia.

Tiffany Cruikshank shares a meditation to help you become more conscious of the patterns in your mind so you can begin to rewire the soundtrack and guide yourself to a healthier mind and body.

Come to stillness and ease through this simple meditation from Sonima that helps cast away the excess and delusion of human identity.

Finding the time and motivation to meditate is difficult. That's why finding the right intention will help you stay focused on your goal of keeping a consistent meditation practice.

Find nourishment in this powerful meditation to unlock the rigidity involved in unhealthy patterns and return to more exalted and essential states.

This practice helps dissolve the urge to react, so you can use your frustrations and irritations as productive learning tools.

This simple practice from Sonima.com will introduce you to fundamental meditation techniques such as observing the breathing and self-regulation.

When you're highly empathic, emotional contagion is very real struggle. Bo Forbes's small, subtle practice will help you create boundaries in the body to stay healthy.

This simple practice from Sonima.com will help you reflect on your day in order to feel more relaxed and prepare for a restful night.

Feeling small and limited? Gabrielle's three-minute meditation will help you blast through limitations and magnify your energetic vibrations.

Take some time alone with your thoughts and try this guided meditation from Sonima.com to help you lay the foundation for renewal.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.