Wellness

Guided Meditations for Every Feeling

Written by: the Editors of goop

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Updated on: November 5, 2024

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We’ve been building a collection of video sessions from some of our favorite practitioners. The idea is to have something to turn to whether we’re celebrating joy and abundance, having trouble quieting anxieties when we wake up, or just need a spiritual hug. The meditations, breathwork practices, sound baths, and Reiki sessions below are just the first in our library. We’ll be updating this page regularly as we add to the list, and you can subscribe to the goop YouTube channel to get notifications when we have something new for you to tune in to.

The Meditations

  • A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation <br><em>Ryan Weiss</em>

    A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation
    Ryan Weiss

    Life coach Ryan Weiss explains how dropping out of the mind and into the body can help us detach from the busyness and noise of everyday life. Weiss walks us through a basic meditation, focusing on the breath in order to anchor the mind—a practice as useful for a first-time meditator as it is for anyone revisiting the foundations of their meditation routine.

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  • A Morning Meditation for Clarity, Stability, and Presence <br><em>Kate Waitzkin</em>

    A Morning Meditation for Clarity, Stability, and Presence
    Kate Waitzkin

    To capture the feeling of the first moments of wakefulness, Austin-based yoga and meditation instructor Kate Waitzkin recorded a ten-minute guided meditation. Listen to this while you’re still in bed or anytime you’re looking to find some clarity and stillness.

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  • An Evening Meditation for Transitioning into Sleep <br><em>Kate Waitzkin</em>

    An Evening Meditation for Transitioning into Sleep
    Kate Waitzkin

    For transitioning into sleep, yoga and meditation instructor Kate Waitzkin guides a ten-minute meditation focused on stillness and slowing down. We like to tune in to it while we’re settling into bed. But you can play it anytime you’re looking to center yourself in the present and relax.

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  • A Heart-Opening Meditation for Manifesting Love and Connection <br><em>Alex Artymiak</em>

    A Heart-Opening Meditation for Manifesting Love and Connection
    Alex Artymiak

    Yoga teacher Alex Artymiak invites us to wiggle out tension from the body to deepen the breath and cultivate loving energy in this heart-opening meditation. Following this simple solo exercise, Artymiak explains how you can extend the practice to a friend or a partner by connecting to the rhythm of each other’s heartbeats.

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  • A Meditation to Cultivate Gratitude <br><em>Gustavo Padron</em>

    A Meditation to Cultivate Gratitude
    Gustavo Padron

    Austin-based yoga teacher Gustavo Padron invites us to recognize all the little things in our lives that we value and the joy they inspire. Padron explains that when we focus on what we feel lucky to have, we’re better able to bask in the pleasure these things give us and carry that feeling into our day-to-day. Then Padron explains a simple practice of using gratitude to shift our energy in moments when we feel stressed and overwhelmed.

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  • A Meditation for Emotional Spring Cleaning<br><em>Gustavo Padron</em>

    A Meditation for Emotional Spring Cleaning
    Gustavo Padron

    This emotional spring cleaning by yoga teacher Gustavo Padron is an opportunity to feel out areas of our lives that might be holding us back. Starting with a mindful scan of the body, Padron invites us to breathe into areas of tension in the body and release stress in every out breath. He encourages us to think of whatever it is we need to emotionally let go of, thank that thing for the gifts it might have given us, and release it—so we can welcome in something new.

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  • Breathwork for Finding Calm <br><em>The Dojo Upstate</em>

    Breathwork for Finding Calm
    The Dojo Upstate

    This guided breathwork meditation connects the body and mind to drop us into a relaxed state. With the option to lie down and place a scarf over our eyes, we’re invited to bring our attention to the body for a simple scan of our physical sensations followed by a series of easy breathing exercises.

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  • A Binaural Sound Meditation for Releasing Stress and Anxiety <br><em>The Dojo Upstate</em>

    A Binaural Sound Meditation for Releasing Stress and Anxiety
    The Dojo Upstate

    For this binaural sound meditation, you’ll need a pair of headphones or earbuds. (It’s recorded using two microphones so that the sounds coming through each ear are different.) Simply listen and observe what you feel without judgment or attachment.

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  • Morning Reiki Meditation <br><em>Jasmin Harsono</em>

    Morning Reiki Meditation
    Jasmin Harsono

    Holistic healer Jasmin Harsono works with a Reiki energy technique called three diamond breath. Here, Harsono walks us through deep breaths and affirmations focused on opening up the three primary Reiki centers to cultivate vibrancy in the body, wisdom in the heart, and clarity in the mind.

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  • A 14-Minute Meditation to Help You Let Go

    A 14-Minute Meditation to Help You Let Go

    In this meditation to cultivate optimism, breathwork and meditation facilitator Jenna Reiss invites us to let go of what we can’t control and look for new, brighter perspectives. After some initial deep breaths, Reiss has us identify areas of tension in our bodies and asks: Without forcing any physical change, can we imagine what it would feel like for that tension to melt away?

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  • A Breathwork Class for Healing Codependent Thinking

    A Breathwork Class for Healing Codependent Thinking

    In this guided pranayama breathwork practice, Victoria Albina targets the codependent thinking that interferes with our ability to cultivate healthy relationships. It’s less of a thinking exercise than a feeling one: The three-part breathwork pattern allows us to let go of what’s going on upstairs and tap into our intuition. Albina’s voice guides the rest.

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  • An Active Breathwork Technique for Restless Minds

    An Active Breathwork Technique for Restless Minds

    Breathwork practitioner Jasmine Marie recorded this guided practice for creating space in the mind and opening the heart. She begins with some mindful breathing and visualization before transitioning into a gentle but powerful technique in which you breathe in and out through a wide-open mouth and connect inhale to exhale without pausing in the middle. It’s soothing and clarifying.

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  • A Hypnotist’s Meditation for Dropping Emotional Weight

    A Hypnotist’s Meditation for Dropping Emotional Weight

    Hypnosis practitioner Morgan Yakus finds we can let heavy things go through active meditation, or visualization. In this exercise, Yakus has us imagine ourselves floating up and above wherever it is we are, noticing whatever happens to be below us and letting go of anything weighing us down. By the time we reach the end and open our eyes, we feel balanced, as if we’ve been washed clean, and we walk out with our load a little lighter.

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