More Favorite Insight Timer Teachers and Tracks
To help folks with the overwhelm that comes with downloading and using Insight Timer in its 9th or 10th year, I’m highlighting some of my favorite teachers, artists, and tracks. I couldn’t imagine adding the app Insight Timer to my toolkit in 2025. There are nearly 300,000 free meditations and tracks, and more than 20,000 teachers.
When you find a teacher you like, be sure to follow them so you receive notifications when they are hosting a live mediation or they publish a new track or course.
I’m sharing these in no particular order. I hope by paring them down, you’ll find some teachers who fit your needs. Check out last week’s list.
Meditative music and mantras
🎻 The Wong Janice—A cellist, her music is gorgeous. Some of it is centered around themes like gratitude, or the chakras or other areas you might want to work with.
🧑🎤 The Bhaktas—This version of Ra Ma Da Sa is my most-listened to track on IT ever. It’s what I usually do bedtime yoga to, but it’s wonderful anytime you need a beautiful, soothing track to melt to.
🎵 Many tracks by East Forest are recorded live, and range from grounding to uplifting. I use Heavenly Uplift (exactly as it sounds) sometimes with my morning yoga, and I also love The Shamanic Dive.
💝 Claim Your Joy Rama Mantra—If you’ve attended one of my workshops, you likely heard this gorgeous, bright and elevating track somewhere near the end. It’s one of the most beautiful twists on mantra I’ve come across. Need a mood lift—this is it.
🎶 Soulful Soundwaves—Another group whose music is divinely uplifting. Some of their tracks are a bit longer, so I might use Crystal Reflections: Crystal Reflections Calming and Restorative when I take a longer shower and need revitalizing energy, or Blissful Blue for a peaceful morning yoga session, or Dusk in the Wild - Relaxation and Sleep for a longer, restorative bedtime practice (20 minutes).
Meditation in General
🧘 Davidji is also known as the Velvet Voice of Stillness. He’s a true guru who’s written a number of books and apprenticed for ten years at the Chopra Center before embarking on his own. Both his library tracks and live meditations are an enhancement to the practice. This is an 8-minute practice good for anytime from morning meditation to evening wind-down shower meditation.
🕊 Traditional, long-time mindfulness teacher Tara Brach still drops tracks on Insight Timer, and they’re perfect if you’re looking for straightforward-but-still-heartfelt mindfulness meditation guidance.
Other Juicy IT Teachers
😊 Georgiana Petec’s live face yoga classes are a must-attend. They are only 30 minutes long, and she’s lovely. Not only do you do the work to reduce lines, wrinkles, and gray hair, and improve circulation and lymphatic drainage, but it feels so good and makes a wonderful midday break or after-work transition (depending on the time).
🌊 Sarah Blondin’s tracks are a delightful way to feel back into yourself. It’s like being held. They are less instructional and more reflective and poetic. Highly recommend. This is one of my favorites for hot bath meditation, and this 8-minute track is de-lovely in the evening before bed.
🪄 If past life healing, Reiki, and moon cycles are your jam, Carrie Suwal is a sweet teacher to follow. She does a lot of live sessions, which I Iove attending, especially right before bed. Her static tracks are transformative as well; try her moon cycle manifestations.