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Even if you know the benefits of meditation, actually starting can feel daunting. This brief and easygoing introduction from Jesse Israel, founder of The Big Quiet, breaks it down - and shows you how effortless starting your own practice can be.

Follow Penny the city cat as she climbs over, around, and all through her family’s new country property. Scale the roof, explore the vast barn, and greet the barnyard animals along with her in this Audible Sleep story told by John Stamos.

Research shows that people who start their days slowly and mindfully tend to be healthier and happier. In this morning meditation, learn how to check in with yourself - not your phone - and ease into the day before you.

In this gentle morning meditation, you'll learn how to access your inner navigation system to weather uncertain times and create a life full of meaning and purpose. All you need to do is find a quiet space where you can sit undisturbed for 20 minutes or so.

Join Grace as she hunts through an off-the-beaten-path antique store in search of the perfect birthday gift for her friend Leah in this Audible Sleep story narrated by Eva Longoria.

If you want to rest without interruption, participate in the moment-by-moment guidance of this meditation. You will gently be guided back to sleep with ease and peace of mind focusing on the synchronicity of your mind, body, and breath.

This meditation and guided exercise will help you find softness and ease in both your mind and body. Lean into it. Guided by leading experts and personalities in wellness, sleep meditations are brief listens focused specifically on helping you decompress before bed. They don’t require any previous experience - they're easy to get into and designed to help you take a moment at day’s end to just relax.

Relax before bed with sound meditation practitioner Jackie Cantwell, as she guides you in a deep-breathing meditation over the soothing sounds of an ocean drum and vibrating crystal bowls. Jackie Cantwell is the director of Medi Club and musician for The Big Quiet, a mass meditation movement that gathers thousands of people for large-scale moments of quiet around the world (including for Oprah’s 2020 Vision Tour with WW).

This extraordinary meditation teaches you how to recharge and enter your next best experience of joy.

Banish your inner critic! If you struggle with an inner voice that floods you with self-doubt, this short practice is for you—all of you, every part, the beautiful and the difficult. It can all be held with love.

This meditation is designed to complement the sign of Capricorn. Capricorn is a cardinal earth sign that governs over time and wisdom, and it is symbolized by a mythical creature: a goat with a fishtail. This mythical creature embodies the balance between earth and water, stability and fluidity. Use this meditation to enhance and restore the balance inherent to Capricorn.

Studies show that getting out into nature, ideally somewhere green or near water and trees, helps to restore the balance of oxytocin and serotonin in your body. But what if you don't have access to nature? This meditation takes you there mentally, guiding your imagination to create the same restorative effects.

This meditation is designed to complement the sign of Scorpio. Scorpio energies are often misunderstood because of their depth and intensity. Scorpio is a fixed water sign that holds in it the power of creation and destruction. It is the deepest of your inner waters, and within it lives your capacity to hold grudges, to forgive, to experience the transformational power of love, grief and passion. These feelings can be overwhelming at times, but are a powerful part of who you are.

This meditation is designed to complement the sign of Cancer. Ruled by the Moon, Cancer's energies are deeply emotional and vulnerable. It’s the part of you that, at its best, flows without attachment or defensiveness, is empathic, and willing to stay with complex or sticky emotions. This meditation will explore these energies, helping you to make room for and release whatever comes up without judgment.

When Mercury goes retrograde, it is a reminder that for growth and progress to be achieved, we must reflect. Mercury is the planet of communication, and it governs both speaking and listening, as well as your lungs and your breath. When it is retrograde, we can experience shifts, disruptions, and even breakdowns in these areas. This meditation provides a sacred space for reflection and an opportunity to reassess your perspective, so that you can move ahead with clarity and confidence.

Travel along the California coast with a young gray whale calf and her family as she leaves her winter home in a beautiful blue Baja California bay and moves north for the summer, as told by Audible Sleep narrator Eva Longoria.

This meditation is designed to complement the sign of Libra. Libran energies are represented by the scales, always in balance with each other. This is a mediation for bringing yourself and a relationship back into balance by returning both your and their energies to where they belong, so each person can be in greater harmony and alignment.

This meditation is designed to complement the sign of Aquarius. Aquarian energy connects us to possibility. It is a fixed air sign that governs the parts of you that feel both detached from others and connected to the community of our shared humanity. Because these energies can be heady and erratic, they can get fixed on the future, pulling your focus away from the here and now. This meditation will remind you that this is the only moment that requires stewardship. Use this meditation to get centered in the present moment.

The simple act of choosing this meditation signals your desire to grow and change. Learning to stay open and receptive to new information and the willingness to shift your opinions is a type of yoga. It’s some of the most important yoga you will do. So, let’s begin with the meditative practice here today.

There's no avoiding stress in life, but there's a better way to counteract it (which will also improve your sleep). In this brief educational piece, Jesse Israel, founder of The Big Quiet, shows you how meditation is the yin to stress' yang.