Which meditation music should I choose?
| Sound | What it's like | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Ambient Meditation | A warm pad drifting slowly through soft chords | Guided meditation, body scans, falling asleep |
| Native Flute | A breathy wooden flute playing slow, calm phrases | Breath work, nature-feel meditation, unwinding |
| Handpan | Round, ringing steel notes in a gentle melody | Focus, mindful moments, yoga |
| Wooden Wind Chimes | Hollow bamboo knocks drifting on a soft breeze | Relaxing, reading, drifting off |
| Rain Stick | Seeds cascading through a wooden tube | Sound bath, transitions, grounding |
| Tibetan Singing Bowls | Struck metal bowls that shimmer and fade | Classic sound bath, silent sitting |
Not sure? Start with Ambient Meditation. It stays in the background and never pulls your attention.
Meditation music with no ads
Most meditation music online lives in long videos, and an ad halfway through a meditation breaks the whole thing. SleepHz isn't a video: the music is made live in your browser, so there's nowhere for an ad to go. It also never loops, because each phrase is played fresh.
Tap Black screen in the player for a fully dark screen while the music keeps playing, which helps for evening and bedtime meditation.
Ambient music for guided meditation
Ambient Meditation was made to sit underneath a voice. It has no melody to follow and no beat, just slow chords that change every 15 seconds or so, over a low drone.
- Play it at a low volume, just loud enough to fill the room.
- Set Auto-stop to the length of your session: 10, 15 or 30 minutes.
- Leading a group? Play it from your phone or laptop through a speaker while you guide.
Native flute music for sleep and meditation
The Native Flute track is inspired by the breathy wooden flutes of Native American and other traditions: a few notes from a five-note scale, played slowly, with a soft breath in every note and room to rest between phrases. A quiet low drone sits underneath.
For sleep, set Auto-stop for an hour and keep the volume low. The pauses between phrases give your breath somewhere to settle.
Handpan, wind chimes and rain stick
- Handpan: a steel instrument played with the hands, created in Switzerland in 2000 (the original was called the Hang). Ours plays the D Kurd scale, the classic handpan tuning, with its low center note now and then.
- Wooden wind chimes: bamboo tubes that knock together in the wind with a hollow, woody tone. They come in gusts, then rest.
- Rain stick: traditionally a dried cactus tube with its spines pushed inside, filled with pebbles or seeds. Turn it over and the seeds cascade like rain. It's a favorite in sound baths.
How to meditate with music
- Pick one sound and stay with it for the whole session.
- Sit or lie down, close your eyes and breathe slowly.
- Let the music be your anchor: when your mind wanders, come back to the sound.
- When the music fades out, sit for one more breath before you open your eyes.
New to meditation? Start with our beginner's guide.
