About this collection

This is a hand-tended index of free guided meditations — the practices, not the talks. A script reads the RSS feeds of 42 insight-meditation and dharma centres each week, keeps the episodes that are actually guided sittings, and files them by teacher, length and type of practice.

Nothing here is hosted or re-published. Audio streams from the original publisher and every title links to the centre's own page, so the centres keep their traffic and their attribution. The site carries no advertising and sells nothing.

The collection covers mindfulness and the body scan, breath and concentration practice, loving-kindness, compassion and equanimity, and practices for difficult emotions — from teachers including Jill Shepherd, Tara Brach and Mark Nunberg, and from centres including Common Ground Meditation Center, Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC, Lokanta Vihara and Auckland Insight Meditation.

Licensing

Every recording is published by its centre under a Creative Commons licence that permits non-commercial sharing of the unmodified talk with attribution (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 and CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Each is credited to its teacher and centre with a link to its licence, and the audio streams from the publisher's own servers rather than being copied here.

The licence is read from each feed on every weekly build. A centre that stops declaring an open licence stops being used, and its recordings leave this site on the next run — which is why several well-known meditation podcasts that reserve their rights are not listed.

The 42 centres this draws from

Each publishes its own recordings. Every meditation links back to the original, and the audio streams from the publisher’s servers rather than being copied.

Common Ground Meditation Center 75 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 75 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Lokanta Vihara 70 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Auckland Insight Meditation 53 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre 52 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 New York Insight Meditation Center 49 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 London Insight Meditation 46 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 SanghaSeva 43 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Gaia House 40 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Bhavana Society of West Virginia 39 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 AudioDharma 36 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland 36 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Big Bear Retreat Center 33 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Insight Santa Cruz 32 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Mountain Hermitage 29 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Cloud Mountain Retreat Center 28 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Shakti Vihara 28 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Spirit Rock Meditation Center 27 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center 27 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center 24 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Bodhi College 23 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Ajahn Brahm Podcast 22 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Barre Center for Buddhist Studies 22 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Australian Insight Meditation Network 22 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Uncontrived 20 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 True North Insight 19 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Amaravati Monastery 17 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Southern Insight Meditation 16 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge 15 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Meditationszentrum Beatenberg 15 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Moulin de Chaves 15 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Dassanāya Buddhist Community 13 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley 13 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Sati Saraniya Hermitage 13 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Freely Given Retreats 11 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre 10 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery 10 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Twin Cities Vipassana Collective 9 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community 8 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Karuna Buddhist Vihara 8 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Cambridge Insight Meditation Center 6 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Dharma Seed 2 guided meditations · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0