Purpose-driven meditation techniques
Guided techniques for what you need right now — stress, sleep, focus, letting go. Basic members enjoy 2 free; unlock the rest with a Meditators membership.
38 techniques
Osho Kundalini Meditation
A four-stage evening meditation that moves from spontaneous shaking and dance into witnessing and complete rest.
Gibberish Meditation
A cathartic meditation using meaningless sounds to interrupt ordinary verbal thinking, followed by quiet grounding.
Prayer Meditation
A devotional movement practice centered on receptivity, surrender and the symbolic meeting of sky and earth.
Laughing Meditation
A simple morning practice combining whole-body stretching with several minutes of uninhibited laughter.
Golden Light Meditation
A gentle breath-and-visualization meditation imagining complementary currents moving through the body.
Kirtan Meditation
A joyful meditation combining singing, dancing and clapping with a central period of complete silence.
Sufi Whirling Meditation
A traditional turning meditation using continuous movement to explore an experience of inner centering.
Devavani Meditation
A gentle meditation using spontaneous non-language sounds, soft movement and silent rest.
Gourishankar Meditation
A four-stage night meditation combining conscious breathing, soft gazing, receptive movement and silent rest.
Nataraj Meditation
A total dance meditation in which spontaneous movement is followed by stillness and celebration.
Praise for the Rising Sun
A dawn practice of spontaneous sound and gentle swaying offered as a celebration of the rising sun.
Work as Meditation
An everyday approach that brings full attention, involvement and reduced mechanical habit into ordinary work.
Sufi Dancing
A free-form dance practice in which whatever emotional quality is present is allowed to move through the dance until participation becomes total.
Panting Meditation
An intense breath-and-movement exercise described as an indirect way of bringing awareness and expression to strongly held emotional energy.
Pillow-Beating Meditation
A private cathartic practice for allowing anger and physical intensity to be expressed toward an inanimate object rather than another person.
Waiting for the Sunrise
A dawn meditation of silently watching the sunrise while sensing a corresponding inner rising of light.
Sit Silently and Wait
A receptive sitting meditation of doing nothing, remaining quiet and simply waiting without expectation.
Funny Faces Meditation
A playful mirror practice using exaggerated facial expressions and postures while observing the body with awareness.
Just Look at the Sky
A spacious awareness meditation using the open sky as an object of contemplation and inner expansion.
Not Two Meditation
A brief awareness practice using the phrase Not Two whenever inner division or opposing states are experienced.
Osho Dynamic Meditation
An intensive five-stage meditation using breathing, movement, emotional expression, stillness and celebration.
Swaying Meditation
A three-stage meditation moving from rhythmic swaying and sound into seated and standing stillness.
Mandala Meditation
A four-stage active meditation moving from vigorous movement toward centering and complete stillness.
Running, Jogging and Swimming Meditation
A movement-based approach that transforms running, jogging or swimming into meditation through total-body participation and alertness.
Communicate with the Earth
A grounding practice combining movement with quiet standing and conscious awareness of contact with the earth.
Zazen
A silent sitting practice emphasizing natural breathing, an unfocused gaze and minimal physical movement.
Inner Smile Meditation
A subtle practice of relaxing the jaw and breathing until an inward feeling of smiling spreads through the body.
One Meditation
A relaxed breathing meditation in which the word One accompanies each outward breath.
Vipassana
A silent meditation of observing natural breathing while allowing thoughts, feelings and sensations to appear and disappear without interference.
Nadabrahma Meditation
A gentle humming meditation followed by slow hand movements and silent sitting.
Meditation for the Jet-Set
A visualization practice for air travel that uses the vastness of the sky as a doorway into spaciousness and relaxation.
Just Ordinary Tea — Enjoy It
An everyday mindfulness practice that turns the simple act of preparing and drinking tea into a moment of total awareness and appreciation.
The Fragrance of a Flower
A sensory-awareness meditation that follows a flower's fragrance from a strong sensation toward increasingly subtle perception.
Simply Relax the Breathing
A discreet breath-awareness practice of allowing the breath to become natural and simply observing it without concentration.
Peace Be to This Man
A brief interpersonal meditation of becoming quiet within and inwardly offering a feeling of peace to someone approaching you.
Ponder on the Opposite
A contemplative practice of bringing awareness to the complementary or opposite quality of a difficult emotional state.
Osho's Smoking Meditation
A de-automatization exercise from the book that applies detailed awareness to an existing smoking habit in order to observe it without mechanical repetition.
Stop Meditation
A brief everyday practice of suddenly stopping all movement and becoming completely present to the current moment.