Looking to find a way to relax and recharge? Here are a collection of apps from the OSU-Cascades Student Success Center to help.
iPhone Apps: Meditation/Relaxation/Mindfulness
- Bloom – Reminders to make healthy choices, stay connected with others, manage stress, strengthen your spirit, save money, advance your career, and enhance your creativity.
- Breathe2Relax – Breathe2Relax is a portable stress management tool which provides detailed information on the effects of stress on the body and instructions and practice exercises to help users learn the stress management skill called diaphragmatic breathing
- Daily Body Scan – This is a stand-alone iPod ready audio track featuring expert contributor Stephen Cope from Wild Divine the makers of Relaxing Rhythms
- Equanimity – App times mediation and provides mindfulness practice sessions.
- Fluid Monkey – Relax as you enjoy interacting with incredibly smooth and responsive pools of liquid. Use all ten fingers to smear paint, jiggle gelatin, or fling brightly-colored balls through puddles of mud
- iQuarium – Chill out while watching your Parrot Cichlid fish swimming in its tank, feed it, play with it, interact with it
- Panic Attack Aid – Contains tools for breathing, explanation of physical symptoms, and distraction exercises
- Relax Melodies – white noise ambience for sleep, meditation & yoga
- Simply Being Guided Meditation – Voice guided step-by-step instructions for meditation and relaxation
- Simply Yoga – Contains 20, 40, or 60 minute yoga routines that step you through each pose. Each pose is demonstrated by a certified personal trainer, simply choose your workout length and follow along in the comfort of your own home
- Sleep Machine – Ambient noise application
- Transform Your Life: A Year of Awareness Practice by Cheri Huber – inspirational quotes, encouragement, and daily assignments supporting awareness practice focused on compassionate self-acceptance
Android Apps: Meditation/Relaxation/Mindfulness
- Breathe2Relax – Diaphragmatic breathing application
- Buddhist Meditation Trainer – Personal trainer for relaxing and enlightening meditation. It features 10 levels of enlightenment with deeper quotes to meditate on in every level, all with a simple to use meditation timer.
- Calming Music to Tranquilize – Calming Music to Tranquilize is a light music collection providing relaxing experiences through the balance and harmony in the Chinese Tai Chi way of meditation.
- Daily Body Scan – This is a stand-alone iPod ready audio track featuring expert contributor Stephen Cope from Wild Divine the makers of Relaxing Rhythms
- Easy Relax – Ambient noise application (i.e. white noise, waves crashing, rainforest, etc.)
- iQuarium – Chill out while watching your Parrot Cichlid fish swimming in its tank, feed it, play with it, interact with it
- Lightening-Bug Sleep Clock – Ambient noise sleep app.
- Meditation Helper – A meditation timer which allows you to set a target for the length of time you want to meditate each day. It includes a widget that displays the number of consecutive days you have hit the target. It is thus useful not only as a timer, but also as a tool to help motivate you to meditate regularly.
- Music Therapy for Refreshment – Medium Speed Alpha Wave (10Hz) set in 5 melodic music pieces provides a most relaxing way to restore your vigor, to bring about a refreshed mind.
- Qi Gong Meditation Relaxation – Improve your physical health, relax and reduce your stress by learning Qi Gong, gentle movement combined with breathing
- Relax and Sleep – Choose and mix from over 35+ ambient sounds which incl. thunder and white noise.
- Relax Completely – free hypnosis session for deep relaxation
- Relax Melodies – Relaxing noises and animations
- Relaxing Sounds – Create your own relaxing sounds by combining sounds
- Simply Being Guided Meditation – Voice guided step-by-step instructions for meditation and relaxation
- Stop Panic and Anxiety – Used as a dysfunctional thought record diary; contains relaxation audio (guided imagery and PMR) and psychoeducation on panic and anxiety
- Stress Reduction – Contains relaxation and PMR audio
- White Noise – White Noise Lite provides ambient sounds of the environment to help you relax or sleep.
- Yoga Workout Planner – A comprehensive yoga app embedded with animated yoga classes. Positions are shown in animations.
- YogaPedia – provides nearly 100 unique yoga positions, tips and information