Who we are
What we do
Founded by a team of meditation teachers, businesspeople, and industry experts, meditatehere was created to deliver the benefits of meditation to remote workers.
Why remote workers? Because the pandemic accelerated a profound change in where people work and they discovered a new freedom that worked better for themselves, their families, and their overall wellbeing. Things will never fully return to the old ways.
This shift has to remote has driven profound changes in what people expect from their work: more flexibility, more connection to what is important in their lives, and a much higher expectation around wellbeing --- specifically, mental wellness.
But while hundreds of millions of people around the world are now remote workers - and loving it - remote work also comes with its own wellbeing challenges.
Specifically, remote work brings challenges around isolation, loneliness, and difficulty in balancing work and personal life, which can lead to stress, depression, and anxiety. Whether people are looking to maintain strong mental health; find a way to focus more clearly on their work; or just want to feel better overall - our app delivers the benefits of meditation to all remote workers including 100% remote, hybrid, and digital nomads.
We serve companies and remote-working individuals in all major industries, including finance, investment, real-estate, media, software, fashion, retail, and more. Beyond our app for individuals, we engage with company leaders to design custom programs for companies.
Finally, we embrace the value of community and meditation through live Zoom meditation sessions led by world class teachers. It's better together.
Why meditate?
Meditation has been around for thousands of years and has stood the test of time as a way to quiet the mind, feel good, and enhance enjoyment of life.
meditatehere.com is committed to bringing a full range of meditation techniques to marketworking people. There is no one right way to meditate; and above all, meditation is simple and easy to get started with. We don’t need years of education and training to meditate. If you can close your eyes, breathe, and sit somewhere – you can meditate.
Meditation is a set of techniques derived from experience over thousands of years that calms and settles “noisy” minds; the relentless chatter inside our heads that can unsettle us, make us anxious, depressed, fearful of future events, and unwell.
Meditation is not a religion, just a set of techniques; it can be practiced easily alongside any faith tradition. It can be practiced by young and old. It is particularly of value to professionals office workewho spend lots of time behind computers.
Benefits of meditation include :
Greater ability to focus
Reduced stress
Pain relief
Greater sense of well-being and calm
Enhanced ability to handle the ups and downs of life with ease and equanimity
Improved appreciation of all that is good in life, including friends, family, nature and kind
behavior
Better emotional health
Longer attention span
Improved sleep
Reduced blood pressure
Live longer?
Research suggests that meditation lengthens our telomeres, the protective caps at the end of our chromosomes. Longer telomeres mean a longer life.
Younger mind?
Experienced meditators have brains that are on average 7.5 years younger than non meditators.
Meditation may reduce dementia risk.
How does meditation feel?
People use a range of words to describe what meditation feels like, including calm, serene, peaceful, and even blissful. Sometimes it feels like absolutely nothing, which may be best of all. The simple idea is that if you can stop the cacophony of your interior monologue, your “thinking,” for even a millisecond, you can start to derive benefits, which may be subtle at first, but grow as you practice.
