The Ultimate List of Free Meditation Resources
Whether you learn best through listening to podcasts, watching YouTube videos or reading blog posts, this list of free resources can help get improve your meditation practice.
For both those who are new to meditation and those seeking guidance in helping you deepen your meditation practice, the internet is abundant in free resources. Below are some excellent resources that can introduce you to meditation, provide guided meditation sessions tailored to specific goals, or simply give some inspiration to assist you in living a more mindful life.
PODCASTS
Untangle
Untangle opens their microphone to both experts and ‘real people’ who share stories about how mindfulness practices have changed their lives. Untangle covers topics such as the importance of meditation, how meditation can change your life, and the effect meditation has on the lives of the podcasts’ guests.
Tara Brach
Tara Brach offers unique guided meditation sessions that combine both her skill set as a meditation teacher and her experience as a psychotherapist. Dr. Brach has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Fielding Institute and has also completed a five-year Buddhist teacher training program at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center. If you’re looking to gain a perspective of Western Buddhism, Dr. Brach offers a wise approach to freeing ourselves and society from suffering.
Mindfulness Meditation Podcast
Once a week, the Rubin Museum of Art in New York presents a meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher. Each podcast episode is recorded in front of a live audience and includes an opening talk, a 20-minute meditation session, and a closing discussion.
Meditation at the hammer
Meditation at the hammer is hosted by UCLA. Each episode also offers a new daily life practice, which you can then adopt for the week. The sessions are generally led by Diana Winston, the Director of Mindfulness Education at MARC. Some great examples of popular episodes include creating a balanced mind, improving our ability to focus, and staying present in difficult moments.
Daily Meditation Podcast
Meditation coach Mary Meckley provides guidance around following a weekly mindfulness and meditation theme. Mary includes tips on how to make meditation a more regular part of your day, which can be extremely helpful to both new and seasoned meditators. Some popular past themes have included stress management, anger management, guidance to overcoming self-doubt, overcoming fast fear, reducing anxiety, managing depression, and improving self-esteem.
Miscellaneous | Meditation Interviews
If you’re looking to round out guided meditation sessions with some expert interviews as well as other insights into mindful living, you can tune into one of the additional podcasts below. These do not offer guided meditations, but they do introduce you to stories within the realm of mindful living.
YOUTUBE
The Honest Guys
This is a team of three from the U.K. that is dedicated to providing guided meditation for free in a straightforward manner, without the fluff. You’ll also find relaxing music, nature sounds, power meditations geared toward specific emotions, guided sleep talk-downs, and affirmations on their channel.
Michael Sealy
Sealy is known for his deep, soothing voice. He is a trained hypnotist who believes in the power of positive hypnosis (a tranquil state of daydreaming) for improved self-control as well as assisting in your making of clear and empowered behavioural choices. Along with his positive hypnosis playlists, Sealy’s channel offers guided meditation sessions in themes such as overcoming procrastination and perfectionism, reducing anxiety, and encouraging sleep.
Jason Stephenson
At nearly 1 million subscribers, Jason Stephenson has created one of the most popular meditation channels available on YouTube. Stephenson provides a multitude of guided meditation sessions, relaxing nature sounds, meditation music, and inspirational talks.
Positive Magazine
This channel offers daily meditations that are between 1-10 minutes long. Meditation sessions range in topics such as anxiety, healing, depression, sleep, and parenting, general meditation tips, and affirmation playlists.
SPOTIFY
Nature sounds
If you are somebody who likes to guide your own meditation practice, you may benefit from listening to calming nature sounds in the background. This specific playlist is comprised of 65 total tracks, some of which include cozy rain sounds, running stream sounds, summer night sounds, tropical forest sounds and more.
Focus and concentration
If you’d like to improve your focus and concentration in areas of your life such as work, school, and relationship management, this focus and concentration playlist is an amazing resource. Many meditation and mindfulness practices focus on improving your ability to concentrate on specific thoughts or mantras. Many find that improving these skills are extremely helpful once brought into additional areas of your everyday life.
Multiple Playlists | Ambient music | ASMR Soundtracks
If you have a yoga or meditation practice that you’d like to enhance, many find that ambient music serves as an incredible background sound. Spotify has many different options for playlists that contain ambient music, which allow for you to guide your own practice in an interesting and new way.
BLOGS
Muse
The Muse blog provides insight into meditation from a neuroscience perspective – many articles are formulated based on research, scientific findings, and scientific theory. Read this blog if you’d like to learn more about the evidence-based benefits of meditation, learn straightforward tips, and gather guidance you can carry into many aspects throughout your life.
Life and Dare
Life and Dare is an excellent in-depth meditation resource. From Life and Dare, you can expect to find explanations of all types of meditation, details of the scientific benefits of meditation, common questions and myths answered about meditation, along with insights on personal growth and spirituality.
Karan Bajaj
Karan is a bestselling novelist and yogi who has over 100,000 readers per month on his blog. He is a modern-day meditation mentor who also has a family and a full-time corporate job. Karen is somebody that many can relate to, which is extremely motivating for those who might find themselves in a similar life situation.
About Meditation
Last but not least, About Meditation is a wonderful resource if you’re beginning a meditation practice. The blog focuses on many topics such as stress and relaxation, habits, lifestyle, benefits, techniques, and spirituality. About Meditation also offers a free beginner’s course as well as guided meditations.
