Meditation

Drop-in meditation studios with 100- and 200-hour meditation teacher trainings are popping up around the country.

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.

Listen to your body to find your natural limits and healthy boundaries—along with core power, strength, and inner peace.

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

Visualization is playing with the imagination, a powerful resource. Use a glitter jar to illustrate to kids how mindfulness—the cultivation of stillness in the face of swirling chaos of life—affects us.

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.

As you progress in meditation practice, you’ll want some expert guidance. The following teachers recommended by Sonima are a good place to start.

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

Janet Stone, who will lead our upcoming Yoga for Moms online course, suggests this 10-minute meditation to help you focus on everything you DO have.

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.

Hugging meditation, made famous by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, is rooted in the belief that a good hug can have transformative effects.

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.

Float Therapy is on the rise. Find out why this womb-like experience just might elevate the way you meditate.

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 quick but oh-so-beneficial meditation for your body and mind.

Meditation teacher and the best-selling author 
of Real Happiness shares ways to find fulfillment at work—even in jobs we may never love.

Nicki Doane, co-owner and director of Maya Yoga Studio in Maui, share a teaching from the fourth pada of Patanjali's Yoga Sutra.

If you're feeling too tired to practice, keep in mind that yoga may be the very thing to bring you sound slumber.

Discover the meanings and intentions of different stones to help you find the mala truest to your unique, authentic self.

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.

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and anxious when work stresses come into play. Try this practice as a solution to all of your stress woes.

Get advice from the world's best yoga teachers on how to craft a special yoga practice space in your home.

Looking for a new way to meditate? Pick up a box of crayons. Coloring books for grownups are trending, and now there’s one especially for yogis.

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.

For those suffering from 
anxiety, yoga can be a lifeline. 
Here’s why doctors are 
increasingly recommending 
it as a complementary therapy.

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.

Neck pain and stress-related tension are a regular struggle for many, but experts say meditation may be the key to longterm relief.

No time to meditate? Bryant Park Yoga teacher Sangeeta Vallabhan doesn't buy it. You make time for Surya Namaskar, don't you?

Author Michael A. Singer went from a penniless yogi in the woods to CEO of a billion-dollar public company—almost against his own will. Get a preview of his story in this interview.

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.

Who couldn't use more meditation in their day? Consciously cultivate a meditative state with mantras in this Dancing Warrior flow.

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.

While there is no cure for Alzheimer's, research suggests yoga and meditation may play a role in prevention and improving symptoms.

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.

A slew of scientific studies suggest that mindfulness meditation offers some powerful holistic health benefits, making it an increasingly viable complement to conventional health care.

Just as with learning any new skill, it pays to have guidance and support. Here are our favorite guides, props, and online classes for finding your moment of Zen.

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

Our home practice teacher Rina Jakubowicz gives you this short sequence of yoga poses to clear your mind and achieve a meditative state.