Offline Guided Meditation 0.16.0: 34 more practices and two Natural breath courses
Offline Guided Meditation 0.16.0: 34 more practices and two Natural breath courses
Offline Guided Meditation is an Android app that speaks English meditation guidance without an internet connection. You don’t need an account. The guidance is spoken using the app’s included narration recordings and the speech voice installed on your device.
Version 0.16.0 grows the library from 102 to 136 practices and from 22 to 24 courses.
New practices
The 34 new practices take several approaches. Some work with attention: resting it on a chosen object, keeping a soft, lowered gaze, or staying open to whatever sounds and sensations come and go. Others use imagery, walk you through releasing tension in the body, or bring attention to eating and walking. Some are reflective practices for quietly thinking something over.
Four of the new practices are explicitly religious: full readings of Psalms 23, 117, 121 and 130 from the World English Bible, each followed by a period of silence. They are optional, and nothing else in the app depends on them.
Two Natural breath courses
Two new courses put existing Natural breath practices into short sequences. One, on settling and returning, has three lessons. The other, on leaving a decision open, has two. The lessons use practices that are already in the app, so you can follow them as a course or find the same practices on their own.
Saved sessions on narrow screens
Each saved-session card has Start, Recheck, Edit and Delete buttons. On narrow screens these buttons now wrap onto another line, and each one keeps a touch target of at least 48dp, Android’s recommended minimum. The buttons do the same things, in the same order and with the same conditions, as before. A short loading message also now appears while session options are being prepared.
What stays the same
The app still works offline and still needs no account. This release doesn’t change the included set of narration recordings. Sessions you saved in earlier versions keep the guidance they were saved with.
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