Headspace: Meditation & Sleep

Headspace for Meditation, Mindfulness and Sleep

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About this app

Stress less. Sleep soundly. Get happy. Learn the life-changing skills of meditation and mindfulness in a few minutes a day with Headspace. Choose from hundreds of guided meditations on everything from stress management and anxiety management to sleep, personal growth, and mind-body health.

Simply download this guided meditation, mindfulness, and sleep app for free — then sit back, breathe, calm your thoughts, relax, and be kind to your mind. Meditate anywhere, anytime — and start living a more calm, healthier, happier life.

About Headspace
Headspace is your guide to mindfulness for your everyday life. Learn meditation and mindfulness skills from world-class experts like Headspace co-founder Andy Puddicombe, and develop tools to help you focus, breathe, stay calm, and create balance in your life — whether you need stress relief or help to get restful sleep.

What this meditation and sleep app does
The Headspace app teaches you how to meditate and live mindfully, with guided sessions on stress management, happiness, resilience, physical health, and more. Even if you’ve never meditated before, the free Basics course teaches you the essentials.

In the Sleep by Headspace experience, you’ll find sleep meditations, relaxing sleep music, and sleepcasts to guide you to a place of calm and rest. If you have trouble falling asleep or problems with your sleep cycle, Sleep by Headspace can put your mind to bed.

Courses:
Learn techniques to help deal with stress and anxiety, relax your mind, and more.
○ Stress & anxiety meditation: Managing Anxiety, Letting Go of Stress
○ Falling asleep & waking up meditation: Sleep, Restlessness
○ Work & productivity meditation: Finding Focus, Prioritization, Productivity, Creativity
○ Movement & sports meditation: Motivation, Focus, Training, Competition, Recovery
○ Physical health mindfulness training: Mindful Eating, Pain Management, Pregnancy, Coping With Cancer
○ Student guided meditation: Dealing With Distractions, Leaving Home

Focus:
From meditations for working from home to concentration-boosting music, the new Focus tab is your one-stop shop for changing the way you get things done. Tune in to the moment with Headspace’s Chief Music Officer, John Legend, and new music from groundbreaking artists, like Madlib. Or choose from 12 different Focus music stations, including Lo-Fi Times and Corner Booth Jazz.

Move Mode:
Release stress and tension through movement with Move Mode — mood-boosting, at-home workouts led by Olympian trainers Kim Glass and Leon Taylor. Includes:
○ Quick workouts – guided exercise videos for stress release, motivation, winding down, and more
○ 28-day courses – build a mindful fitness routine with a trainer-led course
○ Audio-guided cardio – mindful listening for your next run or walk

The Wake Up:
Start your morning happy with The Wake Up — a daily video series designed to brighten your day. Includes inspiring stories, mindful advice from experts, and animations to make you smile.

Sleep by Headspace:
Create the ideal conditions for a calm, restful sleep.
○ Sleepcasts – original stories paired with relaxing sounds to help you unwind and calm your thoughts
○ Sleep music – sounds and music create the perfect atmosphere for bedtime
○ Wind downs – guided exercises to prepare your mind and body for sleep

Headspace Guided Meditation for Kids:
Designed for young meditators. Topics include: Sleep, Wake Up, Calm, Paying Attention, and more.

Headspace Plus subscription
Subscribe to Headspace Plus and access the full Headspace library — including hundreds of meditations, mindfulness training, and calm, breathing exercises.
○ Over 40 meditation courses on topics like stress and sleep
○ Dozens of one-off exercises to add mindfulness to your day
○ Short, mini-meditations — great for busy schedules
○ Full access to Sleep by Headspace and Move Mode — bring mindfulness to every part of your life

Ratings and reviews

While I like it to remind me to relax, it is sloooooooow. It takes forever to load initially and as you switch between the screens it takes even longer to load. I have to constantly close out of the app and go back in just to get the main page to load. When I'm frustrated, stressed or overwhelmed, have the app take so long to load to get to the exercises is NOT helpful. It defeats the purpose.

I just find this unnecessarily expensive for what it is now. Perhaps because I knew the app from before and really liked it. But now, it just seems like they have become too arrogant in not allowing absolutely any free sessions. If you could personalize it and pay for each individual package with a one time fee, it would be more user friendly. But I get it. It's about the profit, right? Oh, and the YouTube commercials are getting a bit too much for my liking. Every second ad is a Headspace ad.

I have been meditating for years and I was excited when my employer included this as a benefit. That excitement ended quickly once I started using the app. It's a very busy app and feels very Sesame Street to me. I was having trouble sleeping and I remembered that I could use this app for free. I wanted to see what teachers they used w/o success. I clicked on 1 that sounded like an AI voice (ugh). If you are new to meditation, this is great. If you aren't, go elsewhere. (Insight timer)

What’s new

A steady meditation practice can calm the mind. But sometimes a bug appears in the app and it distracts us. We removed that bug from this latest version, and we already feel more at ease.

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