Guided meditations

Short guided meditations

These are nice meditations for when you have just a few minutes. For best effect, try and sit for meditation every day - ten or twelve minutes isn’t too much time to take for yourself, after all!

Ten minute guided bodyscan meditation, suitable for beginners

Ten minute guided breath meditation, suitable for beginners

Twelve minutes, starting with happiness and joy and moving to the breath

Ten minute guided loving-kindness mediation, suitable for beginners

Meditations to help with sleep

Many people have problems getting to sleep, either when they first go to bed, or when they wake in the night. These meditations use techniques from Yoga Nidra to take your body into a state of sleep, or deep relaxation. Science tells us that deep relaxation is about 80% as effective as sleep, so if that’s where you get to, then that’s fine.

Eight minutes to take your body through relaxation towards sleep

Fourteen minutes of progressive relaxation, helping you get to sleep or to a state of deep calm

Longer meditations

Once you’re training your meditative muscles, you might want to keep going for a little longer. These meditations will help you do that.

Twenty minute guided breath meditation

This next meditation is designed to help build introspective awareness - our awareness of our own thinking processes. It’s a really important skill to build, and can help you significantly in your everyday life (your time “off the cushion”, as mediators sometimes call it…)

Twenty minute guided meditation with checking in