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Fall deeply asleep tonight with a classic bedtime story or try an original guided meditation to find some peace anytime. There are hundreds to choose from with thousands of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ratings and they are all free with no login required.
There's a new story every Sunday and a new meditation every Wednesday.
Here are some listener favorites if you're looking for a good place to start.😴
Jan. 15, 2023
#252 - The Journey South
In this original story, we’ll follow a flock of band-tailed pigeons on their sleepy migration from Vancouver to the oak forests of Northern California.
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Jan. 11, 2023
#251 - Meditation - The Treasure in the Shadow
We can find incredible gifts in the shadow, the part of our unconscious mind that contains the traits and emotions that we have repressed or denied.
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Jan. 8, 2023
#250 - Geirlaug The King's Daughter
A sleepy German fairy tale about a good princess and an evil queen.
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#252 - The Journey South
Jan.
15, 2023
In this original story, we’ll follow a flock of band-tailed pigeons on their sleepy migration from Vancouver to the oak forests of Northern California.
#251 - Meditation - The Treasure in the Shadow
Jan. 11, 2023
We can find incredible gifts in the shadow, the part of our unconscious mind that contains the traits and emotions that we have repressed or denied.
#250 - Geirlaug The King's Daughter
Jan. 8, 2023
A sleepy German fairy tale about a good princess and an evil queen.
#249 - Meditation - New Beginnings
Jan. 4, 2023
Yielding to the moment, to what life is presenting to us, we can begin to move with the synchronicity of all life and all beings.
Over 30 Min.Fairy TaleFiction
#248 - Toinette and the Elves
Jan. 1, 2023
A sleepy holiday story about a young girl who learns a lesson on kindness from some magical elves.
#247 - Meditation - Hearing Silence
Dec. 28, 2022
Simply listening to sounds and the silence between them, we can experience the power of attention to connect us with the world around us.
Over 30 Min.Fiction
#246 - Old Father Christmas
Dec. 25, 2022
A sleepy Christmas classic about the origins of the Christmas tree.
Over 30 Min.
Sleep MeditationMindfulness Meditation
#245 - Meditation - Perfect Naturalness with Angelo Dilullo
Dec. 21, 2022
Dr. Angelo Dilullo guides this week's meditation to guide you to a place of perfect naturalness.
Over 30 Min.Fairy TaleFiction
#244 - The Little Elder-Tree Mother
Dec. 18, 2022
A classic story about how fairy tales grow out of reality, and how reality grows out of fairy tales.
Under 30 Min.Sleep MeditationMindfulness Meditation
#243 - Meditation - Sensing Into the Body
Dec. 14, 2022
Bringing attention to the breath and sensations in the body can help us calm the mind.
Under 30 Min.Fairy TaleFiction
#242 - King Thrushbeard
Dec. 11, 2022
A classic fairy tale about a proud princess who learns the importance of humility.
Under 30 Min.Sleep MeditationMindfulness Meditation
#241 - Meditation - Heart-centered Awareness
Dec. 7, 2022
When we feel stuck, it can take courage to see things differently, and we can find that courage by opening our hearts.
Over 30 Min.Poem
#240 - Gitanjali (Part 3)
Dec. 4, 2022
Part three of Tagore's Nobel prize-winning book of poetry is the perfect thing to calm the mind as you drift off to sleep.
Over 30 Min.Sleep MeditationMindfulness Meditation
#239 - Meditation - Nothing to do. Nowhere to go.
Nov. 30, 2022
Meditating on this reminder, we can get closer to the experience of who we truly are.
Over 30 Min.Poem
#238 - Gitanjali (Part Two)
Nov. 27, 2022
Part two of Tagore's Nobel prize-winning book of poetry is the perfect thing to lift your heart as you drift off to sleep.
Under 30 Min.Sleep MeditationMindfulness Meditation
#237 - Meditation - Bringing Light to Shadows
Nov. 23, 2022
Bringing a gentle awareness to the light within us, we can see that there is no light without darkness and that the two can exist in harmony.
Over 30 Min.Poem
#236 - Gitanjali (Part One)
Nov. 20, 2022
Part one of Tagore's Nobel prize-winning book of poetry is the perfect thing to lift your heart as you drift off to sleep.
Over 30 Min.Sleep MeditationMindfulness MeditationGuest Artist
#235 - Meditation - Gentle Awareness for Sleep with Sean Fargo
Nov. 16, 2022
Enjoy this soothing sleep meditation guided by one of my favorite mindfulness teachers.
Over 30 Min.Fairy TaleFiction
#234 - The Twelve Princesses and the Wizard King
Nov. 13, 2022
A sleepy African fairy tale where a prince sets out on a hero's journey to rescue his true love.
Under 30 Min.Sleep MeditationMindfulness Meditation
#233 - Meditation - Calming the Mind with the Breath
Nov. 9, 2022
By focussing our attention on the breath, we allow thoughts to simply arise and pass away.
Over 30 Min.Fiction
#232 - The Old Hay
Nov. 6, 2022
A sleepy 19th century Icelandic story about a village coming together to make it through a hard winter.
Under 30 Min.Sleep MeditationMindfulness Meditation
#231 - Meditation - Rest the Mind
Nov. 2, 2022
When set an intention to rest the mind and settle the body, we allow ourselves to surrender a little more deeply to the flow of life.
Under 30 Min.Fiction
#230 - The Whale and the Grasshopper
Oct. 30, 2022
A sleepy but witty Irish story from 1916.
Under 30 Min.Sleep MeditationMindfulness Meditation
#229 - Meditation - Letting Thoughts Be
Oct. 26, 2022
When we let our thoughts be as they are, we allow them to pass and reveal the peace that exists in the space between them.
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Search:- Hare-grass eater and his family
audio fairy tale by Kipnis I.N.
Tale of a funny story about a hare that brought him great luck. The hare and his family lived in great need. When it was necessary to insulate the house for winter, the hare and her son stealthily dragged a large board from the garden and closed the hole in the wall…
- The Larssen family
audio performance based on the fairy tale by Jan Eckholm
Musical audio performance based on the fairy tale "Tutta Karlsson the First and Only, Ludwig the Fourteenth and others" about how the Fox cub Ludwig from the Larssen family and the chicken Tutta from the Karlsson family met and became true friends.
They played together, walked… - The famous dog Sonya
audio fairy tale Usacheva A.A.
Clever and famous dog Sonya wants to know where the money comes from and why it is needed. She wants to thoroughly understand what love and friendship are and in many other issues. nine0003
- Bad advice
audio book by Oster G.B.
Cheerful ironic poems for children that show what can happen if they disobey. The book teaches you to treat any situation with humor, to be a smart person and not to listen to other people's stupid advice. Teaches not to act like…
- Sea Devil
audio performance based on the novel by A.R. Belyaev. "Amphibian Man"
A science fiction novel tells how rumors about a "sea devil" - a strange creature, half-man, half-fish, performing rational acts, began to spread in the town of Buenos Aires in Argentina. And he has already been seen more than once in La Plata Bay .
.. - O. Henry Audio Stories Collection
O. Henry Audio Stories Collection
Short and mostly funny, although not without irony and sadness, stories about topical social issues. In them, the author shows hostility to the foundations and rules of bourgeois society. The main characters are representatives of completely different social categories: millionaires, bandits,…
- Pollyanna
audio novel by Eleanor Porter
A lovely 11-year-old girl named Polianna comes to live with her aunt Polly. The girl lost her mother very early, and now her father has died, leaving her no inheritance. Polianna has an exceptionally rich inner world and ...
- Winnetou
audio novel by Karl Maya
The story of the noblest of all the red-skinned Indian warriors Winnetou and his white brother, the brave hunter and tracker Old Shetterhand (Striking Hand).
Listen to "Vinneta" online on the website of Mishkin's Books.
- The Tale of the Shepherd and the Wild Boar
audio poem by Yazykov N.M.
A tale in verse about a wise and caring king, a brave and resourceful shepherd and a beautiful princess. nine0003
- Heather honey
audio verse by RL Stevenson (translated by S.Ya. Marshak)
An old ballad about a cruel Scottish king and brave people - the Picts, who did not reveal the secret of preparing heather honey to the invader.
- Glove
audio verse by Schiller F.
A ballad about a fearless knight and a hard-hearted beauty.
- Judgment of God over the bishop
audio verse by Southey R.
Translated by Vasily Zhukovsky.
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The law turns out to be powerless, and only her relative, a criminal investigation officer, can protect a young girl who has become a victim of a serious crime. Relying only on himself and his partner, he achieves his goal. Evil is punished. But you have to pay for everything, and soon he himself turns from a hunter into a victim. nine0003
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"These fairy tales were born in a distant northern country - Norway. Its nature is harsh, but extraordinarily beautiful. There are rocky mountains, and green valleys overgrown with lush grasses and bright flowers, and dense forests, and clear cold rivers And also the sea, the restless northern sea, which cut the shores with long bays - fjords.0140 They say that people here are like nature - freedom-loving, strong, courageous. They know how to work conscientiously, they know...
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Paul Lang studies the mysterious manuscript of a 13th-century Franciscan friar. Much of his work remains a mystery. Things get off the ground when Lang realizes that Bacon's work is only a synopsis of the legendary Necronomicon. After making inquiries, he flies to Europe in search of the original. What terrifying discoveries await the scientist on the way to the mystery?
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This first novel by Mine Reed, written in 1849 and extensively revised by him in 1850, tells the story of the adventures of the brave and noble Captain Haller during the war between the United States and Mexico in 1846-1848. The abundance of army sketches, ranging from everyday life to military battles, many critical and sometimes romantic situations that the main character finds himself in, a detailed description of the nature of those places, all this clearly demonstrates the author's search for... nine0003
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Simple complex universe. How the discoveries of modern physics bring us closer to understanding the picture of the world
Galfar Christoph
EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE
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Imagine that you are far away in space next to a dying star. Or shrink to the size of an atom and go on an incredible adventure in a tiny world. nine0140 Quantum physics, black holes, string theory, dark matter, parallel universes - if we really want to understand these phenomena, then we have to plunge into the world of numbers and creepy formulas.
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Elderly Xenomorph
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Volchok Irina
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Don't be born beautiful, but be born happy - this simple truth is liked by "grey mice".
But Vera is a completely different matter. As a child, she was considered an ugly girl, and when people saw what an incredible, unearthly, spitting image of Aelita she really was! this discovery brought her little joy. And what good is female envy and greedy male glances? Strict Faith teaches students the murky science of psychology and believes that she knows everything about people. Especially about... nine0003
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Planet KA-PEX
Brewer Jean
FANTASY
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When a new patient is brought into the psychiatric hospital, claiming to be from Ka-PEX, a planet where there is no war or crime, the hospital seems like the perfect place for him. But how to explain his supernatural abilities? Almost everyone who meets this unusually soft and sensitive character changes for the better. Is madness always mad? nine0003
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Sidorova Irina
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painted house
Grisham John
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