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title: "Guided Sittings — A Public Library from the Course | Vipassana.Life"
description: "Selected guided sittings and talks from Part 1 of the Vipassana.life course, each playable here and linking into its Part. English, Spanish, Russian."
url: https://vipassana.life/sittings/
lang: en
author: Ocean DYNN
site: Vipassana.Life
modified: 2026-09-23
---

# Guided sittings

A small library of sittings and talks from Part 1 that can be listened to on their own. The full course is the whole sequence, with the journal and the precepts.

- [Introduction to the course (5 min)](https://vipassana.life/sittings/introduction/) — Day 0 · 5 min
- [What is meditation? (18 min)](https://vipassana.life/sittings/what-is-meditation/) — Day 0 · 18 min
- [Settling — the first guided sitting (9 min)](https://vipassana.life/sittings/settling/) — Day 0 · 9 min
- [Guided Ānāpānasati — The Natural Breath (16 min)](https://vipassana.life/sittings/natural-breath-morning/) — Day 1 · 16 min
- [Guided Ānāpānasati — Calm the Mind (16 min)](https://vipassana.life/sittings/calm-the-mind-morning/) — Day 2 · 16 min
- [Guided Ānāpānasati — Cleansing Focus (16 min)](https://vipassana.life/sittings/cleansing-focus-morning/) — Day 3 · 16 min
- [Guided Ānāpānasati — Meeting Distraction Kindly (16 min)](https://vipassana.life/sittings/meeting-distraction-morning/) — Day 4 · 16 min
- [What is Ānāpānasati? (3 min)](https://vipassana.life/sittings/what-is-anapanasati/) — Day 4 · 3 min
- [Guided Ānāpānasati — Steady Breath (17 min)](https://vipassana.life/sittings/steady-breath-morning/) — Day 5 · 17 min
- [The benefits of Ānāpānasati (9 min)](https://vipassana.life/sittings/anapanasati-benefits/) — Day 5 · 9 min

[Begin Part 1](https://vipassana.life/course/part-1-anapanasati-essentials/)