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.
40 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.
Work as Meditation
An everyday approach that brings full attention, involvement and reduced mechanical habit into ordinary work.
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.
Praise for the Rising Sun
A dawn practice of spontaneous sound and gentle swaying offered as a celebration of the rising sun.
Waiting for the Sunrise
A dawn meditation of silently watching the sunrise while sensing a corresponding inner rising of light.
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.
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.
Funny Faces Meditation
A playful mirror practice using exaggerated facial expressions and postures while observing the body with awareness.
Sit Silently and Wait
A receptive sitting meditation of doing nothing, remaining quiet and simply waiting without expectation.
Night Meditation — Passive
A three-part passive night meditation that relaxes the body, breath and thoughts before resting as a silent witness in inner emptiness.
Anapanasati Yoga Meditation
A 45-minute guided passive meditation centered on conscious breathing, acceptance of surrounding sounds, and an experience of dissolving into existence.
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.
Ponder on the Opposite
A contemplative practice of bringing awareness to the complementary or opposite quality of a difficult emotional state.
Peace Be to This Man
A brief interpersonal meditation of becoming quiet within and inwardly offering a feeling of peace to someone approaching you.
Simply Relax the Breathing
A discreet breath-awareness practice of allowing the breath to become natural and simply observing it without concentration.
The Fragrance of a Flower
A sensory-awareness meditation that follows a flower's fragrance from a strong sensation toward increasingly subtle perception.
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.
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.