Mindfulness Meditation Apps
Apps for everyone
Meditation and relaxation
Headspace: Two-week free trial for the general public. (Providers with a National Provider Identifier can sign up for free full access.)
Calm: Seven-day free trial. A meditation, sleep, and relaxation app that also provides resources specifically for coping with COVID-19 anxiety.
Stop, Breathe & Think: Always free, and for kids too.
Insight Timer: Always free. This is not a daily app, but rather a great library where you can search for various types of meditations and lengths by excellent teachers.
10% Happier: Free and paid options available. Health care providers can use redemption code HEALTHCARE to unlock all content.
UCLA Mindful App: Free with meditations by Diana Winston.
Mindfulness Coach: Mindfulness Coach 2.0 was developed to help veterans, service members, and others learn how to practice mindfulness. The app provides a gradual, self-guided training program designed to help you understand and adopt a simple mindfulness practice.
Coping with stress and anxiety
Sanvello: Clinically validated techniques for reducing stress and treating anxiety and depression (free premium access during COVID-19 pandemic).
Happify: Some free content, including stress reduction and cognitive techniques to address anxiety.
MindShift CBT: Free content, including cognitive behavioral therapy strategies to address general worry, social anxiety, and panic.
PTSD Coach: Created by VA’s National Center for PTSD and the Department of Defense’s National Center for Telehealth & Technology. This app provides you with education about post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), information about professional care, a self-assessment for PTSD, opportunities to find support, and tools that can help you manage the stresses of daily life with PTSD.
PTSD Family Coach: In conjunction with PTSD Coach, the PTSD Family Coach app is for family members of those living with PTSD. The app provides extensive information about PTSD, how to take care of yourself, how to take care of your relationship with your loved one or with children, and how to help your loved one get the treatment they deserve.
Mothers and Babies Online Course: Available in both English and Spanish, this online course teaches skills to manage changes in how you feel. Designed for pregnant women, new mothers, and those who want to support them.
COVID Coach: Created for everyone, including veterans and service members, to support self-care and overall mental health during the coronavirus pandemic.
Insomnia
CBT-i Coach - Free cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, available for iOS and Android.
Stop, Breath and Think
Insight Timer App
Headspace.com
Chill
Calm.com
MINDFULNESS CENTERS IN CALIFORNIA
UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
Center for Mindfulness at UC San Diego
Local Meditation Groups
ENCINITAS MINDFULNESS COMMUNITY Encinitas CA. led by Diana Shimkus and Sangha offers 5 time per week mindfulness meditation sittings and teachings. Monday - 7:00 AM, Cary; 7:00 PM, Diana;
Tuesdays - 7:00 AM, Diana; Wednesdays - 11:00 AM, Pete K.; Thurdays - 7:00 AM, Greg; Saturday Sangha: 7:30 - 9:00 AM, Diana. All are welcome. Please contact Diana Shimkus: diana@everydaymind.com or www.encinitasmindfulness.org/offerings
BISHWA SEVA FOUNDATION—DEEP SOUND HEALING
The Bishwa Seva Foundation is a US based non-profit that was founded in 2009 in Oceanside by then 25-year-old Deep Deoja and friends to support the schooling of orphans and disadvantaged students in Panuati, Nepal. Deep was born in Kathmandu, Nepal and is now a US citizen. Deep’s heart is filled with compassion for the children of the world and in particular, the children of Nepal. “Bishwa Seva” means to serve the world. Today, 80% of the funds to support the students comes from sponsors, like the Encinitas Mindfulness Community. The students rely on your support for education, uniforms, meals and a chance for a better life!
SOLANA BEACH DHARMA STUDY GROUP-UUFSD
The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Dieguito host two meditation groups for over twenty-five years.
Where: 1036 Solana Drive, Palmer Library, Solana Beach, CA.
Directions: uufsd.org
When: Thursdays, 5:30-6:45pm and Fridays, 10:30-11:45am
NORTH COUNTY ZEN CIRCLE/FOUR VOWS SANGHA
California Institute for Human Science now hosts a Zen sangha.
It is being taught by Sensei Jose Shinzan Palma, who received transmission from Joan Halifax Roshi, and myself-- so it is a Soto/ Korean Zen hybrid. Sensei's group formerly met in Carlsbad, where it was known as Carlsbad Zen Community: It is now called North County Zen Circle/ Four Vows Sangha. This sangha meets on Friday evenings from 7:30-8:30 PM.
Contact Person: Ji Hyang Padma, Ph.D.Director, Comparative Religion & Philosophy Program California Institute for Human Sciencehttp://www.cihs.edu
http://www.natural-wisdom.org
JULIE CHIPPENDALE, RN; SCRIPPS HOSPITAL MBSR/BOUQUET SANGHA http://mbsrencinitas.com/event/sangha-meditation/
INSIGHT SAN DIEGO
COMPASSIONATE HEART SANGHA - Peace House, Leucadia, CA Saturdays-10:30 am. Contact Person: crawdadpaul@sbcglobal.com Universalist Fellowship - Solana Beach, CA
Suggested Reading
The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness by J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn
When Things Fall Apart; by Pema Chodron
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