Student Meditation
- 1 minStudent Meditation is a student association that has been active since 2018. Our aim is to increase mental well-being, resilience to stress and quality of life of students in Amsterdam and staff at the UvA, by introducing people to down-to-earth meditation and its benefits. We aim to offer science-backed forms of meditation that are shown to benefit people in terms of happiness, concentration, stress levels and self-compassion.
What does this look like in practice? We offer free guided meditations every week on Wednesdays, hosted by trained student guides. These meditations are accessible for everyone, no previous meditation experience is needed. We also sometimes organise meditation courses and community events. By hosting events about various meditation and conscious living topics, we hope to provide an open platform for discourse and learning, where people can touch on subjects that are less often talked about in day-to-day life. We also aim to offer a space where people interested in mindfulness can meet each other and share their knowledge. You can find some examples of past events we’ve organized here.
We also aim to make meditation accessible and inclusive. Attending a meditation course is financially inaccessible for many and having a consistent meditation practice requires a lot of solo discipline. By meditating together and forming a social community around meditation, we support each other in getting the benefits of meditation. And meditating with other humans is also simply very fun! Virtually all Buddhist traditions from which the practice originates include community.
Our main target audience is students, but staff and non-students who are interested in mindfulness are more than welcome.