Courses to build mindfulness.

Open the Happier app and click on Courses at the bottom of your screen. You’ll now have access to a full library of courses. Click on any course title to view the lessons. When you’re ready to begin a lesson, press play. Next time you open the app you’ll see your in-progress course at the top of your home screen. You can listen to as many courses at once as you’d like, though many people like to focus on one on at a time. 

The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness is always free and we sometimes offer other courses free for a limited time. Subscribers get access to our full library of 500+ guided meditations and mindfulness courses. You can sign up for a free 7 day trial subscription here

Each of our courses includes lessons to explain core concepts and special topics. You can choose courses on mindfulness, meditation, self-compassion, calming your inner-critic, focus and other tools for living a happier life. In addition to instruction from the field’s top teachers, the courses include guided meditations to practice and integrate the lessons. These meditations can be saved and played on their own too, so you can return to your favorites and build skills through repetition.

You can complete our mindfulness and meditation courses in anything from a few days to a month, or longer if you wish. The courses are made up of lessons you play as you are ready. Courses typically have seven or fourteen sessions. Many people like to do one lesson a day, while others do several over a weekend for an intensive experience, or one a week to have more time to absorb the instruction and practice with the featured meditation. Feel free to experiment to find a pace that works well for you.

We offer 30+ full courses as well as more than 500 single meditations, plus one-off classes called “Teacher Talks” and themed collections of meditations. In addition we have a library of more than 800 podcast episodes where you can learn about current topics in mindfulness, neuroscience, psychology, wellness and more from meditation teachers, experts and cultural leaders.

Yes, we offer multiple courses, meditations, meditation collections and teacher talks to help with stress and anxiety. To quickly navigate to courses for stress and anxiety, open the app and click on the search tool in the upper right, then type in the word “anxiety” or click on it in the Suggested list. You’ll then be able to choose from hundreds of meditations and classes to help you soothe and respond to stress and anxiety. 

Yes, in fact listening to a single guided meditation is one of the most popular ways to use our app. In your Home tab when you open the app, you’ll find a new featured guided meditation every day, as well as suggestions for other single meditations you can listen to right away. If you click on “Singles” at the bottom of your app, you’ll have access to a library of more than 500 guided meditations. You can search these by theme or teacher, or navigate to a list of your favorite meditations. We find that practicing repeatedly with the same meditation is a wonderful way to really integrate the benefits into our lives and nervous systems, while listening to new content keeps our interest in meditation fresh. You’re able to do both easily without doing a full course anytime you open the Happier app.