9 Best Meditation Kits to Give as a Gift
A meditation kit is one of the easier gifts to get right, because it does the curating for you. Instead of guessing whether someone wants a cushion or a candle or a deck of cards, you hand them a small,…
Tara Quinn
I'm Tara Quinn, and I write about meditation spaces and products for zensoul.net from Austin, Texas. My path here was through design, not wellness: I was 22, living in a chaotic shared house during my last year of design school, and started thinking seriously about how physical environments affect mental states. I set up a dedicated corner and tried meditating in it. Then I tried the same practice in the common room, surrounded by clutter. The difference was not subtle. I've been a freelance interior designer for three years and have been meditating for six. I have no meditation certification, which I figure is worth saying upfront. I cover the space side of the practice: what to set up, what to skip, what actually makes a difference. Questions about gear or spaces: tara@zensoul.net.
6 Best Meditation Lamps for Low-Light Corners
Lighting is the part of a meditation corner most people get wrong, and I say that as someone who has rearranged the same ten-foot strip of apartment floor four times trying to get it right. Too bright and your brain…
You Are the Placebo Guided Meditation: What the Audio Practice Is About
I want to be clear from the start about what this article covers. “You Are the Placebo” is both a book by Dr. Joe Dispenza and a series of guided meditation recordings. The book draws on neuroscience research and on…
Jason Stephenson Guided Meditation for Sleep: A Night Routine That Actually Works
I want to be upfront about something: I was skeptical about guided sleep meditation for years. The idea of following a stranger’s voice into unconsciousness sounded either overhyped or impractical, and my first two attempts with random YouTube recordings confirmed…
8 Best Meditation Statues for a Calmer Space
Let me say the unpopular thing first: a statue will not make you meditate more. I design calm spaces for a living, and I have watched people buy a beautiful Buddha, set it on a shelf, and sit exactly as…
Astral Projection Guided Meditation: What I Tried and What I Skipped
I spent a few months trying astral projection recordings, partly out of curiosity and partly because I was going through a period of chronic stress and not sleeping well. I want to be upfront about where I landed: I do…
Small Meditation Garden: Creating a Unique Oasis
A small meditation garden is a design problem before it is a spiritual one. You have a balcony, a patio corner, or a strip of yard nobody uses, and the question is how to turn that into a space where…
Small Backyard Meditation Gardens: A Layout Guide
A meditation garden in a small backyard is a layout problem first. You have maybe ten by twelve feet, a view of the neighbor’s fence, and the goal of sitting outside without feeling watched or cluttered. I have designed corners…
10 Best Meditation Rings for Quiet Fidgeting
Meditation rings, in the Amazon sense, are mostly spinner bands: an outer ring stays on your finger while an inner band turns. I started wearing one during client calls, not on the cushion, and noticed I reached for it before…
7 Best Meditation Wall Art for a Calm Corner
Wall art in a meditation corner does one job: give your eyes somewhere soft to land when they open mid-session. It does not make you enlightened. I treat it like any other design choice: scale to the wall, match the…