Complete Collection of Guided Meditation Playlists
Stoa offers guided Stoic meditation playlists for mindfulness, resilience, and inner peace.
Introduction
Subtitle: Begin meditating here
Description: These meditations introduce 3 key Stoic ideas and practices.
Meditations: 3
Introduction To Stoicism
Subtitle: Quickly understand the basics of Stoic philosophy
Description: Michael Tremblay, PhD and cofounder of Stoa, introduces Stoic philosophy – a practical and life changing philosophy of life. Start learning about the most important ideas and to put Stoicism into practice.
Meditations: 4
Introduction To The Key Stoics
Subtitle: Learn about the philosophy and key figures
Description: Michael Tremblay, PhD and cofounder of Stoa, introduces Stoic philosophy and the key figures. Start learning about the most important ideas and how people put Stoicism into practice.
Meditations: 6
3 Weeks Of Stoicism
Subtitle: Become more resilient, focused, and Stoic
Description: Cultivate Stoic attitudes by spending a week on each Stoic discipline.
Meditations: 21
Find Calm
Subtitle: Stoic practices for peace
Description: These lessons and exercises cover how to overcome fear and anxiety with Stoicism and cultivate calm.
Meditations: 6
Practice Tranquility
Subtitle: Calm your mind
Description: These meditations introduce Stoic philosophy and tactics for managing anxiety and fostering calm. In the uncertainty and stresses of life, Stoicism brings tranquility.
Meditations: 10
Develop Discipline
Subtitle: Master self-control and build habits
Description: Learn about the Stoic approaches to mastering self-control and building habits.
Meditations: 9
Overcoming Anger
Subtitle: Address wrath and passion
Description: The wise are not angry. Learn how to address anger and overcome it with Stoic wisdom and techniques.
Meditations: 8
Cultivate Courage
Subtitle: Develop courage and resilience
Description: Defeat anxiety and recklessness. Learn what courage means for Stoics and become more courageous.
Meditations: 7
Become Rational
Subtitle: Living well requires thinking well
Description: Living well requires thinking well. You are what you think. Practice excellent thinking in these meditations.
Meditations: 9
Find Your Purpose
Subtitle: Find purpose
Description: Feelings of meaningless are ordinary. This course focuses on how to create extraordinary meaning in your life.
Meditations: 7
Resilience To Loss
Subtitle: Prepare for tragedy
Description: Loss is unavoidable. This course focuses on how to prepare for it, when it happens.
Meditations: 7
Deeper Connections
Subtitle: Experience positive emotions in your relationships
Description: In this course Brittany Polat, author of Journal Like a Stoic, shares Stoic wisdom on building deeper connections. With these exercises, you can move toward eliminating negative emotions of all kinds in your relationships and live a more compassionate, loving, and rational life.
Meditations: 7
Crisis Meditations
Subtitle: Meditations for challenges
Description: Short meditations for challenging moments.
Meditations: 10
Stoic Mindfulness
Subtitle: Meditate on the breath
Description: Between stimulus and response there is a space. And in that space we find our freedom. In these set of meditations, you will learn how to use the breath to create that space for a more mindful and free life.
Meditations: 10
Acceptance
Subtitle: Practice Stoic acceptance
Description: These meditations introduce practices and concepts from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. You can use these practices to embrace reality as it is.
Meditations: 6
Positive Emotion Now
Subtitle: Finding joy in every moment
Description: These practical Stoic meditations are designed to cultivate happiness from within. Despite common misconceptions, Stoicism isn't about suppressing emotions but rather about experiencing positive ones. With these practices, you'll develop the ability to experience genuine joy regardless of external circumstances.
Meditations: 7
Morning Meditations
Subtitle: Start your day right
Description: Begin your day with a Stoic routine. Each of these will help you start your day by focusing on what matters.
Meditations: 26
Evening Meditations
Subtitle: Reflect on your day and prepare for sleep
Description: End your day well. Review your day and prepare for tomorrow. Enter sleep with confidence.
Meditations: 30
Gratitude
Subtitle: Cultivate joy and thankfulness
Description: Gratitude is one of the central emotions for Stoics. We can each take joy in what we have to be thankful for. Learn how Stoics do that rationally in this course.
Meditations: 7
Powerful Stoic Quotes
Subtitle: Meditate on Stoic Wisdom
Description: Use these meditations to internalize Stoic wisdom and principles.
Meditations: 16
Music To Meditate To
Subtitle: Meditate to music from Michael Levy
Description: Meditate to music by composer Michael Levy. Find more of his music on streaming platforms.
Meditations: 5
Timer
Subtitle: Meditate in silence
Description: Use these unguided meditations to practice on your own.
Meditations: 5
Stoic Fundamentals
Subtitle: Learn about the core disciplines
Description: Stoicism has three core disciplines. You'll understand the core ideas about each from these short lessons.
Meditations: 3
Stoicism And Emotion
Subtitle: Use Stoicism for emotional resilience
Description: Listen to Michael Tremblay explain the theory behind Stoic emotion management.
Meditations: 6
Stoic Exercises
Subtitle: Learn about the core exercises in Stoa
Description: Learn about the core exercises in Stoa with these lessons. Every lesson covers the basics and gives tips for getting the most of your practice.
Meditations: 6
Benefits Of Stoicism
Subtitle: Learn about the benefits of Stoicism
Description: Stoicism has many benefits. Learn more about the purpose of Stoicism and how to practice it here.
Meditations: 5
The Good, The Bad, And The Indifferent
Subtitle: Understand what matters most
Description: Learn about what the controversial things the Stoics call good, bad, and indifferent. Understanding this distinction is the key to putting Stoicism into practice.
Meditations: 5
The Four Virtues
Subtitle: Act with excellence
Description: Learn about the four virtues that guide every Stoic action. Each lesson covers a different virtue, what it means for you, and examples of how to put it into practice.
Meditations: 5
Manage Anxiety
Subtitle: Learn Stoic techniques for calm
Description: In this course, Caleb Ontiveros, introduces Stoic philosophy and tactics for managing anxiety. Find the strategies and frameworksfor effectively cultivating calm with Stoic philosophy here.
Meditations: 10
Lessons From Lives Of The Stoics
Subtitle: Study heroes of the past
Description: Learn about excellent Stoics in the past. Emulate their virtues now.
Meditations: 8
Become Antifragile
Subtitle: Learn to thrive in chaos
Description: In these short lessons, Michael Tremblay, introduces the idea of antifragility and situates it in Stoic philosophy. Conquer fragility. Become antifragile.
Meditations: 6
Foundational Questions In Stoicism
Subtitle: Answers to the core questions
Description: Listen to Michael Tremblay answer common questions about Stoicism.
Meditations: 5
Think Like A Stoic
Subtitle: Change your mind, change your life
Description: How you think determines how you live. In this course, Caleb Ontiveros, introduces Stoic philosophy and tactics for thinking well. Find the strategies and frameworks for thinking better.
Meditations: 10
Stoic Productivity
Subtitle: Get things done with Stoicism
Description: Learn how to use Stoic philosophy to be more productive. In these lessons, you will learn how to focus on what matters, overcome procrastination, and get things done.
Meditations: 11
Philosophies Of Life
Subtitle: Deepen your study of philosophy
Description: Learn the fundamentals of Stoicism and explore other philosophies of life. In this series, Michael Tremblay pulls out the best insights from other Greco-Roman philosophies.
Meditations: 8
Stoic Psychology
Subtitle: Frameworks for better decisions
Description: In these lessons, Michael Tremblay covers Stoic philosophy of mind and psychology. Stoics used their understanding to live better lives. Learn how you can too.
Meditations: 6
The Goal Of Stoicism
Subtitle: Learn about the Stoic good life
Description: The goal of Stoicism is happiness. But what does that mean to the Stoics? Learn about the life that Stoicism promises, and the characteristics of the sage.
Meditations: 5
How To Make Proper Use Of Impressions
Subtitle: The most important Stoic practice
Description: Michael Tremblay provides a deep-dive into what Epictetus says is the 'main task' of a philosopher - how to handle impressions like a Stoic.
Meditations: 4
How To Forgive
Subtitle: Stoic tools for releasing anger and finding peace
Description: Listen to this course to understand how the Stoics let go of their anger at others and the world.
Meditations: 4
The Dichotomy Of Control
Subtitle: Deep dive into the most famous Stoic idea
Description: In this course, Michael Tremblay breaks down the dichotomy of control, one of Stoicism’s most popular and misunderstood ideas. Learn about what it is really up to us and what the Stoic think this means for who we are and how we should live.
Meditations: 5
Conversations
Subtitle: Interviews with experts
Description: Listen to conversations with experts. We cover everything from ancient wisdom to contemporary philosophy and psychotherapy.
Meditations: 128
Stoicism And God
Subtitle: Understand the Stoic view of the divine
Description: The Stoics were not religious, but their unique beliefs about God shaped their philosophy and practice. In these short lessons, Stoa cofounder and philosophy PhD Michael Tremblay, shares how the Stoics thought about the divine – and why it matters.
Meditations: 5
Stoa Team Podcast
Subtitle: Conversations with the Stoa founders
Description: Listen to the Stoa founders discuss Stoic philosophy, theory, and practice.
Meditations: 139