About r/Meditation
In its own words:
This community is for sharing experiences, stories and instruction relating to the practice of meditation.
Community guide
r/Meditation (#279, about 3.6 million) shares experiences, stories, and instruction on meditation practice. Rules ban self-promotion, constrain guided-media dumps, sockpuppets, low-effort/off-topic posts, recruitment, and limit AI-generated content; be nice. Text (~19.7 ppd).
Practice-centered sharing
Experiences and instruction fit; recruitment and self-promo do not.
Media and AI limits
Guided videos/blogs/playlists are constrained; AI-generated content is limited.
Practical pointers
Text-heavy samples; Question/Insight/Discussion flairs.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Oct 9, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,933 subscribers (+0.05%). It sits just behind r/Games (#278) and ahead of r/recipes (#280) in our ranking.
What sets r/Meditation apart
Compared with other large communities, r/Meditation leans heavily on text posts (100% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 34%). Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (21:00 UTC) sees about 13.0× as many posts as the quietest (04:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/Meditation went up from 3,559,899 to 3,567,292 subscribers (+7.4K, +0.21%). That is about 168 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/Meditation talks about
We read the titles of 134 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “meditating”, “practice”, “experience”, “body” and “meditate”. Other frequent themes are thoughts, good, anxiety, help, helped and tips. Recurring phrases include “incredible convo”, “sleep anxiety”, “breakup job” and “job loss”. By format, 100% are text posts.
Popular post flairs: Question ❓ (68), Sharing / Insight 💡 (31), Discussion 💬 (23), Other (6), Resource 📚 (2), Spirituality :energy: (2).
Activity and best time to post
r/Meditation gets about 20 new posts a day. The public archive holds 226,599 posts and 2,072,209 comments in total, about 9.1 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (23 posts) and the quietest was Friday (13). Posting peaks around 21:00 UTC and is lowest around 04:00 UTC.
Rules of r/Meditation
The moderators of r/Meditation list 7 rules. In short:
- No self-promotion
- Guided meditations and videos, blogs, playlists, audio, etc.
- Sockpuppet accounts
- Low effort and low quality content, off-topic.
- Be nice
- Recruitment
- Limitations on AI-Generated Content
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/Meditation and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/Meditation?
r/Meditation has 3,567,292 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #279 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 7,393 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/Meditation created?
r/Meditation was created on Oct 9, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Dec 31, 2008.
Is r/Meditation still active?
Yes. r/Meditation gets about 20 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 226,599 posts and 2,072,209 comments. In a sample of 134 recent posts we counted 119 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/Meditation?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Friday, and most posts arrive around 21:00 UTC, with the fewest around 04:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/Meditation?
The community describes itself as: “This community is for sharing experiences, stories and instruction relating to the practice of meditation.” Recent post titles often mention meditating, practice, experience, body and meditate. Most posts are text posts (100%).
Is r/Meditation SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Meditation as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/Meditation?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Meditation accepts both text and link posts, with polls enabled. It has 7 posted rules, starting with: “No self-promotion”; “Guided meditations and videos, blogs, playlists, audio, etc.”; “Sockpuppet accounts”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/Meditation?
Communities with similar topics include r/hacking (3M), r/learntodraw (3.2M), r/math (4M), r/nottheonion (26.1M) and r/solotravel (4.6M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Meditation.