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What you want & what we’re doing about it

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buddhify 2 is now eight weeks old and we continue to be energised, moved and inspired by the community of users that has grown so quickly around the app.

The new app contains a simple way for people suggest new activities or parts of life for custom meditation tracks. And to date we’ve received 768 suggestions and so we wanted to share what people are asking for.

New things you want

The top 10 suggestions for new areas for content we’ve had so far are:

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And if it helps give a sense of scale, Difficult Emotion represented about 15% of the requests.

This is a really interesting set of suggestions and interesting to see some big themes emerging. We take a very user-centred view of the world here at buddhify HQ and so we are using this data to decide how we rejig the buddhify content wheel to include these suggestions. Therefore it may well be the case that later this year we may see two whole new sections for the two most requested areas and other suggestions represented in other areas of the content.

(Sidenote on Driving: for legal/safety/insurance reasons buddhify will not feature content for driving. There are however some ideas and techniques that are useful to bear in mind for driving situations so we hope to write a blog post about that in the future).

Existing things you want more of

Both through direct feedback and analysis of usage data we know which content is the most popular (sleeping, Just Meditation, working online, work breaks, walking) and so it goes without saying that we shall be adding new content to these and all other areas.

Features too!

You have also been suggesting new features or feature revisions for the app and there are some great ideas in there. There can be a temptation to make an app like buddhify more and more complex to service different needs and so our challenge is to work out what brings an improved experience while retaining simplicity and elegance. We will talk later in the year about what we are planning new features-wise but one of the questions on our mind is how to build the sense community in an elegant and non-obtrusive way.

When we’re going to do it

We’re still very much in listening and thinking mode at the moment. Saying that, some writing of new content has already begun and so we hope to see the next set of content arrive on the app in the late Spring, early summer. We will revise this timeline and keep you updated in the coming weeks and months.

The big ambition

Our vision for buddhify 2 is meditation for the people by the people. Historically meditation has been primarily been an expert-led tradition where there is a master or guru or teacher sharing their insights from that elevated role. That is a useful model for some people but buddhify 2 is explicitly trying to be different. buddhify is based on a much more democratic, multi-voiced, peer-to-peer sense of the world so thank you to everyone who is helping us realise that through our little app. And thank you also for your patience while we continue to work and take our time to get it right.

yours on behalf of team buddhify,

Rohan


Android is coming (and other news)…

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buddhify 2 for iOS is seven months old today. And what better way than to celebrate by making three lovely announcements.

1. Android is coming…
For all the hundreds of people who have messaged us requesting buddhify for Android, you are right and have always been right that an Android version of buddhify would be awesome. And now that the iOS version has done so well so quickly, I’m delighted to say that we have started working on buddhify 2 for Android. We haven’t yet locked down the spec for the app yet but we hope to add a couple of special treats and plan to launch in the autumn so do watch this space.

2. Filling the wheel
Alongside the Android version we are also busy doubling the amount of meditation content for the app. Both iOS and Android users will therefore see a new 30-40 tracks in the autumn too. More details soon on specifically what these new tracks will be.

3. Getting busy on the blog
We’re so excited with all the buddhify progress that we want to share as much of the ongoing story as we can. Therefore today will be the first of a weekly blogpost, each of which will share news related to what new features and content are coming to the app as well as sharing some of the big ideas behind the app and the area of mindful technology in general.

Thanks again for your ongoing support and please do remember to join the mailing list so you can receive our latest news as well as special bonus offers and content available only for those on that list.

Thanks!

Rohan

Disrupting the Guru Model & Why Personalisation is at the Heart of buddhify

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This is the first in a series of posts explaining the big ideas and the little details behind buddhify.

If there is one big idea behind buddhify it’s personalisation. Guided audio meditation is already a very personal thing – what can be more intimate than being in someone’s head inviting them to place their attention in certain ways? But what buddhify adds to that is the idea of being able to draw down a meditation that applies to wherever you are and whatever you’re doing – or at least as close an approximation as we can get to that without having so many content options the app creates more stress than it soothes.

buddhify is an example of what we call a user-centred meditation product. Pretty much every example of ‘digital meditation’ starts with a teacher or a tradition and creates a digital – invariably audio or video – facsimile of how they might teach you in an analogue face-to-face class, course or retreat.

We think it’s much more interesting (and actually important) to start the other way round – with what our lives are actually like, how we use technology and the affordances of our devices. So the original insight for buddhify was noticing that people who said they were interested in meditation but had no time, were actually already listening to music and podcasts with their headphones all the time so all we had to do was create content that fitted seamlessly with those times and those situations.

Another element of the personalisation expressed by buddhify is that its completely up to the user as to what content they use and  how often. There is a soft sense of progression in that longer tracks tend to have more advanced techniques than the shorter ones but all the tracks are designed to be used by beginners. There definitely is of course progress and development when it comes to meditation but with buddhify we wanted to make a product where everything was available at once and there would never be a stage where people felt they had to meditate for X days in a row. If our users meditate every day then that’s great, if they don’t then that’s great too since everyone just does what they can.

The final aspect of how personalisation runs through buddhify is how the user relates to the person leading the various meditation exercises. While it’s not hard to find out who is behind the content, our primary intention is to make the buddhify experience all about the user rather than the teacher or instructor. And we’ve supported this even more for the content coming later this year since we’re adding three new writers and two new voices to the app so there is no one single voice or teaching style of the app.

Getting geeky for a minute, if you’re a student of mindfulness-based meditation you’ll know that of the three main schools of Buddhism – Zen, Tibetan and Theravada – not only is the latter the one most aligned with the modern mindfulness movement, unlike Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Theravada places relatively little emphasis on the guru figure in its tradition. Therefore while there are certainly brilliant teachers and leaders both in that part of the Buddhist tradition and the modern insight or mindfulness-based meditation tradition, their role is as guide and friend rather than guru.

buddhify therefore takes its inspiration from that idea of guide-over-guru so that the meditator can ultimately feel that the success they gain from their practice is built on their own efforts rather than the reliance on another, avoiding the asymmetric power imbalance that guru-student models are designed around.

If one day we are considered gurus of anything, we’d much rather like that to be gurus of designing great mindfulness products. But until then, for now we’re very happy to have our users enjoy the glory of their practice and continue to work on how we can take these ideas to the next level through our next set of products.

Rohan

Picture of a cup of tea – the ultimate personalised wellbeing tool –  courtesy of Justin Leibow.

What other ideas or thoughts to you have about personalisation when it comes to mindfulness and meditation? We’d love to know.

 

What new content we’re adding to buddhify and why

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This autumn we will be giving buddhify a major new content refresh which will effectively double the amount of meditations available in the iOS app – while of course the Android version will launch with this new content. Currently the app has 42 meditations and when the new tracks are added, there will be 83…so that’s quite a big increase. And the good news is that if you already have buddhify 2 for iOS all these tracks will be added to the app for free because we’re more interested in rewarding our early adopter community and giving you as great an experience as possible.

All the tracks have been written and recorded and are now in the process of being edited and so now is a great time to tell you a little bit more about what is in store. When deciding on what new content to make, we’ve effectively had two type of information. The first is the enormous amount of data and analytics from the app which tells us which content is most popular (and least popular). And the second type of information is direct suggestions our users have sent through the app and other channels of what they’d like to see – and we’ve had over 2000 of these. Yes really.

 

From the data: the most (and least used) content

There are some very clear favourite sections on the app so far. These are (in order of usage):

  1. Going to Sleep
  2. Feeling Stressed
  3. Can’t Sleep
  4. Just Meditation I
  5. Being online
  6. Walking in city
  7. Just Meditation II
  8. Work break
  9. Waking up &
  10. Traveling

And the least popular content sections are:

  1. Exercising
  2. In the Park &
  3. In Nature

 

From our users: the most requested types of new content:

  1. Dealing with difficult emotions
  2. Working with pain or illness
  3. Household activities
  4. In the bath
  5. Coming home from work

 

What we’re doing with this information

The first and most obvious thing to do is to create more content for the existing popular sections, so you can expect several more tracks related to those top ten popular sections, with new tracks filling in the ‘gaps’ in those activity sections. So for those of you who’ve been using some of the same tracks over and over again – such as for sleep and work – then there are some fresh tunes coming!

And most critically we are creating three new sections: Difficult Emotions, Pain & Illness and At Home (with the latter containing meditations designed for bathroom and coming-home as well as household activities). And given that we are keeping the same overall shape of the content wheel that means making some space for three sections. And how we’re doing that is a) is taking out the Your Suggestions section since people can still email us through the app but we need that real estate that it’s taking up b) combining In the Park and In Nature since they are relatively similar and c) removing the Exercising section. And don’t worry, we will make the exercising tracks currently in the app available on our site for free for those of you who love using them.

 

And the rest

In a later post we shall talk about the suggestions in more detail and what didn’t make the cut and why – the suggestions we’ve had have been really appreciated and we’re sorry that we can’t include them all but to maintain a navigable and beautiful interface – which is something users really connect with – sometimes less is more…although 83 tracks is still a lot!

And the eagle-eyed amongst you will notice that there are 16 sections with room for 6 tracks in each section – meaning a possible total buddhify library of 96 tracks. And with the content refresh taking that the app up to 83 tracks that still means there will be space for 13 more tracks in the future.

Thanks again for your support and we look forward to sharing more about our ongoing developments and the ideas behind them again next week…including news on our new guest writers/voices.

Lodro Rinzler joins the buddhify contributor team

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As you’ll know by now, in the fall we are adding around 40 new tracks to buddhify. And while the majority of the content will still be written by Rohan, for some extra variety and excitement the app will have four guest contributors each of whom have written and recorded 3-5 brand new tracks.

We’ll be announcing them all over the next few weeks and I’m delighted to say the first of our guest contributors is Lodro Rinzler.

Lodro is a New York-based meditation teacher and writer and someone I’ve been a big fan of for a while and so I’m excited for buddhify users to get a sprinkle of his experience and insights on how to bring more calm and compassion to the everyday.

Lodro is the author of two books: The Buddha Walks into a Bar and Walk Like a Buddha. And he has a cat called Justin Bieber. And I’m really excited about his new project, the Institute for Compassionate Leadership.

Find out more about his work at LodroRinzler.com and @lodrorinzler.

Introducing guest contributor: Emily Horn

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The second of the four guest contributors to the new set of buddhify meditation content is the wonderful Emily Horn.

Emily Horn is a meditation teacher based in Asheville, North Carolina and ever since a young age, she’s been moved by the feeling of a sacred interconnectedness to all of life. This feeling has driven her exploration of many wisdom traditions, and inspired intensive meditation practice and rigorous psychological inquiry. In 2010 Emily was encouraged to teach meditation by Jack Kornfield, co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and Trudy Goodman, Insight teacher and founder of InsightLA. Her contemplative training continues and she is currently in the Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Society’s 4 year Retreat Teacher Training. Emily is also a co-director of Buddhist Geeks–a for benefit organisation dedicated to exploring what it means to be a contemplative practitioner in the modern, tech-savvy world.

Already the author and voice of some of the existing buddhify tracks – she’s the one with the beautiful Southern Carolina accent – Emily has written and voiced five new tracks for buddhify’s refresh in the fall and so we checked in with her to find out more about them:

 

Rohan: Can you tell us a little about your new tracks and the ideas behind them?

Emily: Sure. All of my five new tracks are for different sections, one is for the new pain & illness section and the others for when you’re feeling stressed, walking, working online and just meditating wherever.

The one for pain and illness is called Chain and this meditation is about noticing the chain reaction of experience from your body sensations, feelings, to thoughts. All these aspects co-arise, but it is helpful to learn to recognize parts as they arise so that we can allow it to pass through more easily. Thus creating the capacity to be with whatever is happening and have more freedom in the moment.

Now has much less instruction and  this meditation simply asks you to rest with whatever is happening. This is a longer, simple, and formal practice.

Space for stressful situations has an emphasis on stopping, on your posture, on allowing and centering.

Most of us walk throughout our day and Step is a way to cultivate a greater sense of awareness while doing that very ordinary activity and finally Surf is very difference and invites you to stay mindful of your choice of websites and to stay present while navigating the content of both your inner and outer experience.

 

What are you finding most exciting about the meeting of meditation and technology right now?

Technology is enabling people from all over the world to access meditation guidance. For a lot of people, turning attention inward is a big first step and that simple movement of mind is important. This movement enables an ordinary freedom of heart and mind which is a kind of remedy for our modern world. It also inspires us to make our life the place of practice which creates a sacredness of every moment. In other words, this is exciting because technology can help people connect to themselves and in turn each other.

 

Thanks Emily! You can find out more about Emily’s thinking and work at emilyhorn.com and @emilyhorn.

Image courtesy of seekingheartwood.com

Introducing guest contributor: Vincent Horn

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Hot on the well-turned out heels of Lodro Rinzler and Emily Horn, we’ve got two more people to introduce as guest contributors to the new set of buddhify content available later this year.

Vincent Horn is a mind hacker & buddhist geek. He has been practicing meditation intensively since his freshman year in college—including a full year doing intensive retreat practice. He began teaching meditation in 2010 and in 2006, Vincent co-founded Buddhist Geeks, which has gone on to become one of today’s most important venues for exploring contemplative thought & practice in the 21st century.  Vince has already voiced some buddhify tracks (he’s the American male voice on the app) and this is the first time that he has actually written any tracks. We caught up with him to find out more about how he’s bringing his depth of practice experience to buddhify.

 

Rohan: Can you say a little about the tracks you’ve recorded? (or one in particular)

Vince: I’ve written and recorded two tracks. One is a Just Meditation track called Universe and the other is called Infinity and is for the new section called Difficult Emotions.

In Universe I wanted to bring folks on a journey through both the inner and outer cosmos. In the outer cosmos the focus is on the awe and wonder which comes through contemplating a nearly infinite space, being a small dust mote within that. With the inner cosmos we flip that concept and explore what it’s like to experience the entire observable universe as that which arises in your experience. These two modes become two different ways of seeing the world and having that distinction can be really valuable.

As mentioned, Infinity is a guided meditation designed to work with difficult or challenging emotional experiences. Instead of using the typical strategy of avoiding difficulty or trying to bypass it, we instead feel the difficult emotion whilst giving it an infinite amount of time and space to exist within. The extra space allows the experience to contract and expand as it will, and the extra time gives it as long as it needs to exist. Everything becomes workable when we approach it with infinity in mind.

 

What are you finding most exciting about the meeting of meditation and technology right now?

I’m excited about the way that new forms of software and hardware can be used together to create powerful new ways to train the heart and mind. These “contemplative technologies” will make it easier for a broader variety of people to have quick access to states of mind and experiential insights that used to only be possible with years of dedicated meditation training.

As with every new technology it will probably bring with it new challenges, such as how to make sense of those powerful new states of mind and how to have them inform our lives positively rather than becoming a means of escape. As a result we’ll probably need new kinds of communities–probably based in virtual reality–where the techno-boosted contemplatives of the future can hang out, share notes, and explore consciousness together. Hopefully I’ll see you there!

 

Thanks Vince, they sound like they’ll bring an additional depth or gear to the buddhify content, exciting stuff. You can find out more about Vince’s work at vincenthorn.com and @vincenthorn.

The 21awake Design Principles

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If you don’t know already, buddhify is made by a tiny little company called 21awake. And at 21awake HQ we’re working not only on buddhify updates but also new products for 2015. As such we’re doing a lot of thinking about how we make our products. And while we have a nice clear articulation of the process we use to move from idea to prototype to product, whether we’re making an app, a web service or a physical product, what underpins them all is a set of design principles – the core thinking that we think make 21awake products that little bit different.

So… inspired by the ever-brilliant GDS, we’d like to share our very own design principles. And for each one we give an example of how that principle got translated for buddhify…

#1. User-centred over tradition-driven
The vast majority of meditation-related technology stuff starts with an analogue way of doing things – a style or point of view of a particular teacher or tradition – and then just creates an online version of that. This ignores the face that user behaviours and needs can be very different to those for which the more traditional meditation techniques and learning styles were created in the first place. We’d even go as far to say that many modern mindfulness products ignore design and creativity at all – but for us, it’s where we start.

How this was realised for buddhify: the user does not have time to go to a traditional class format and/or are put off by a hokey aesthetic and so we built the product on the twin ideas of on-the-go content and engaging look & feel. 

 

#2. Personalisation. Personalisation. Personalisation.
The product or experience should be as much about the individual using it as possible. That means working hard to make sure that it doesn’t feel like a cookie-cutter experience and that they are able to bring their own personality to it, together with a sense of control and agency.

How this was realised for buddhify: it is completely up to the user as to what content they use, what order to do them in and  how often. Also, we don’t make a big deal of who are behind the meditations and deliberately put in a nice range of voices. This avoids a lack of self-reliance prevalent in guru or personality-led models of presentation.

 

#3. Interaction as practice.
How can every part of the interaction with the product – at least those relatively within your control – be the cause of calm, awareness and compassion in themselves? If only parts of a product promote mindfulness while others fall into the general flow of distraction and unaware manipulation then opportunities have been missed.

How this was realised for buddhify: we spent a lot of time on the interaction design of the content wheel so that the act of exploring and navigating the content is in itself calming and the source of some delight. Elements of patience are built into the transition so that when buttons are pressed, there are micro-delays to help bring the user’s mind into a slower pace then they perhaps typically are when using the phone or tablet for other uses.

 

#4. Keep it simple but not stupid.
Products should be intuitive to use. There will invariably be a relatively high level of complexity within them, this should be hidden ‘under the hood’. Simplicity however does not mean shallow and so should be matched with depth and a respect for the intelligence and creativity of the user.

How this was realised for buddhify: the content contains several many actually quite complex and relatively advanced techniques but these are presented on an equal footing to all the other content so as to allow the interaction to be straightforward .

 

#5. Be responsible.
Working in the area of mindfulness involves getting involved with people’s attention – something that by definition is very intimate and personal. It is therefore incredibly important that things are made which have a duty of care to the individual – that involves not making any promises that cannot be realised. It is also important that the wider consequences of mindfulness-based technologies be recognised – for example the proliferation of guided audio meditation can potentially lead to dependency on a third-party for one’s own practice.

How this was realised for buddhify: we try to be really clear about sign-posting users to qualified teachers if they require it – either through the app or through email correspondence. We are also working on new products which move beyond guided audio as a support mechanic.

 


 

These design principles are a work in progress so we’d love to hear your thoughts.


Introducing guest contributor: Alexander Irving

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We’re getting really close to announcing the release date of Android version as well as when all existing iOS users will double the amount of mediations in the app. As you’d expect that means we’re furiously busy coding and testing so in the meantime, I’d like to introduce you to the fourth and final of our guest contributors who have been working on the new content.

I first met Alexander Irving when we were part of the same mindfulness practice community in London back in 2005 and in the time since then he has formally trained as a mindfulness teacher and given his background as an osteopath he has a specialism in pain management. So when we looked at all the feedback from our users that clearly said the buddhify community wanted some meditation content related to pain and illness, Alex was the first person I thought of to invite to help bring it to life.

Alex has written and voiced three tracks for the app and I met up with him to find out more:

 

Rohan: Tell us about the three tracks

Alex: The three meditations are called Steady, With and Allow.  They are intended to support people in gently turning towards what’s painful, so that they might find ways of relating to those experiences which allow for greater degrees of freedom and ease. This is a very different orientation to pain and difficulty than we usually adopt, based on the understanding that rejecting and resisting difficulty tends to amplify or intensify that experience.


An essential first step in this process is gathering the attention a little. Steady introduces this using the breath as a frame of reference for the attention, something we can return to again and again as we start to notice how our attention gets caught up with thinking, feeling or other sensations.


With begins the exploration of how we might learn to be with what’s difficult, using the breath as a support for this. This exploration continues with Allow, this time using the power of language to explore allowing what’s present to be there. And also seeing the difference between allowing and gritting our teeth or being resigned to being in pain, which are quite different and not so helpful.


This is the first time you’ve worked on an app. What are you finding exciting about the meeting of technology and meditation? 


Well this seems to me like a rich opportunity to learn. As more and more of us explore these practices via connected technology the means for getting feedback is huge. What do we need? What works? What helps? And how to best weave this exploration into everyday life?



Thanks Alex and we’re excited about this new section of content which we hope will help a lot of people. You can find out more about his work and London-based teaching at London Mindfulness Training.

buddhify wins Scottish app of the year

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This week buddhify won named app of the year at the Scottish Digital Business Awards. Following on our shortlisting for best health app in the Europe-wide Lovie awards, it is our first major award win.

Next month will see a major update to the iOS app where users will get twice as much content and we shall also be launching an all-new Android version. And so ahead of all that, it is really lovely to get recognised for the way in which so many people have connected with the app and the impact it has made to people’s lives.

It’s also great that this first award is a Scottish award because even though buddhify’s users are all over the world – and especially in North America – the app is primarily made in Glasgow.

Most importantly, thank you to all our users who took a chance on our app and have told others about it – the power of how buddhify has spread by word of mouth really is quite something.

So what’s next?

 

We started the buddhify adventure with £8000 of personal savings and a great idea. While other leading meditation products out there have taken millions of dollars of investment, without taking on any additional money buddhify has made decent revenue, gained widespread media acclaim and grown a loyal global audience.

Obviously we’re continuing to work on and grow buddhify since we know that there are many more hundreds of thousands of people who would benefit from its dynamic take on meditation.

But alongside that, we’re delighted to say that we are on a range of new products. buddhify solves the problem of ‘I want to get into mindfulness and meditation but I don’t have time for a class or course and I don’t do hippy’.

The new products currently in development share the same high quality of thinking that led to buddhify but look to solve other problems through our unique combination of meditation, technology and design expertise.

Our new products will grow alongside the global market for mindfulness and build on the reputation and user base developed to date through buddhify.

We’re super excited about the new products we’re making. And for the first time ever, we are looking for investment to help take them to production quicker than we could do otherwise.

We are therefore just about to open a small angel investment round. So if you would like to get in on the ground floor with an already successful team and are interested in both commercial and real human impact then get in touch via rohan@21awake.com.

 

buddhify for Android is now in store!

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Thank you to everyone who’s been working so well on their patience while we worked on the Android version of buddhify. As with the new iOS update it contains over 11 hours all for one simple price with no hidden costs.

It is now in store and you can get it here.

What’s new in the new buddhify?

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Here’s a simple break-down of what’s new in the updated version of buddhify for iOS and the new Android version.

New Content for Existing Sections

We looked at the content which buddhify players were most using and just wrote more tracks and techniques for those sections. So you will see that the wheel has filled up for all the sections with many new tracks for Going to Sleep, Can’t Sleep, Waking Up, Work Break, Feeling Stressed, Work Break, Walking, Being Online, Travelling, Just Meditation & so on. This has been made possible thanks to our expanded team of mindfulness experts.

Three Brand New Sections

We listened to all the thousands of emails and suggestions we received and have created three new sections:

  • At Home has tracks for adding mindfulness to common the domestic activities of chores, cooking and taking a bath. And importantly there are two tracks for that key moment when you first come home from work – including a special Two Player Meditation called Together to help connect with your partner or housemate after work.
  • Difficult Emotions has five tracks to help you bring some balance to those moments when you are feeling anxious, sad or just in need of some comfort and self-care. These are not intended as therapy – and you should always talk to a trusted clinician should you be experiencing mental health issues – but they do present some useful tools which can help in those difficult moments.
  • Pain & Illness was the other most requested area for new content and there are five new tracks to help you develop a different, less restricting relationship with physical pain.

To make the amount of content manageable and navigable, we have had to consolidate and remove a couple of things. We have combined In The Park and In Nature into one section and have removed the sections for Exercising & Suggestions. People are still free to send us suggestions by email of their ideas and feedback and if people would like the three exercising meditations tracks then you can download them here as mp3s. We had to remove something and our analytics showed that this was the least popular section, so apologies if you’re going to miss them on the wheel.

New Features

The main development you’ll see is a whole new section called Together, a simple but quite lovely page which hopes to give you a sense of the wider community of buddhify players:

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It shows some overall stats on how the app is being used such as the total number of minutes you’ve all meditated across the world, the number of people who’ve used the app at the same time as you and which tracks are most popular.

It also includes questions from players and answers from the buddhify team. Over time, as you add more questions this will become a useful resource for urban meditation.

There are three other new features you should know about:

  • We’ve updated the star system so that tracks you’ve not listened to yet are marked with a star on the main wheel. This was a feature many people asked for and with the update all the tracks will have a star against them to start with.
  • We’ve added a quick screen at the start of the app to invite you to join our mailing list. The reason we’ve done this is not to annoy you but to make sure we can contact you to let you know about new products and major news related to the app and our wider work. And if you are already on our mailing list of course we will already have your details so you needn’t enter it in again.
  • Related to that we’ve added an additional loading screen which means that in the future, upon loading up you may see additional messages from us related to things we’ve like to tell you about. This will only be related to buddhify and our wider work and it’s just another way to communicate with our players.

We’re really pleased with the new apps, which take the same core buddhify vibe and approach and just takes it one more level up.

Thanks for being a part of our ongoing adventures. You’re the best.

Celebrating 5 Million Minutes And Counting!

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Today we launched our major iOS refresh as well the new Android version.

You can find out more about the details in this post about what’s new.

Today we’re also celebrating the fact that all our amazing buddhify players around the world have in total clocked up more then 5 million minutes of meditation. That’s a lot of minutes.

That is a big number and so we’re delighted to mark that milestone with the new apps. And because generosity is central to how buddhify works, we’re donating a set of iPod Touches to Boston Children’s Hospital on behalf of all the buddhify players around the world. Smoe of the team there use buddhify to help kids deal with the stress of going in for an operation and so that’s pretty cool.

We look forward to our adventure in mindfulness continue to take off so thank you all for being a part of it.

buddhify’s first year in numbers

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Happy new year from everyone in team buddhify! Tomorrow is buddhify’s first birthday and so to celebrate here is a graphic showing our first year in numbers.

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Hello world!

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Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us. At buddhify.com we have a few fundamental principles:

1. We don’t ask for your personal information unless we truly need it.

2. We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.

3. We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

This Privacy Policy is based on the one at http://automattic.com/privacy/ – thanks very much to the kind people at WordPress.com for allowing the world to re-use their content via aCreative Commons Attribution Sharealike license. Naturally, this policy is also under the same licence.

Mindfulness Everywhere Ltd (“Mindfulness Everywhere“) operates several websites including buddhify.com as well as the buddhify Android and iOS apps. This privacy policy specifically relates to the buddhify.com and the buddhify Android and iOS applications (collectively “buddhify“). It is Mindfulness Everywhere’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites and applications.

Website Visitors and App Users

Like most website and app operators, buddhify collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. buddhify’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how buddhify’s visitors and customers use its products. From time to time, buddhify may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its services.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain users or visitors of buddhify choose to interact with buddhify in ways that require buddhify to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that buddhify gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask customers who sign up for an account within the buddhify mobile applications to provide an email address. In each case, buddhify collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the user’s interaction with buddhify. Buddhify does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

buddhify may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites and users of its iOS and Android applications. For instance, buddhify will monitor usage of meditations as well as the information entered by users as part of their self-assessment “check-in” process. buddhify may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, buddhify does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

buddhify discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on buddhify’s behalf or to provide services available on buddhify, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using buddhify, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Buddhify will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, buddhify discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when buddhify believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of buddhify, third parties or the public at large. If you have supplied your email address, buddhify may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with buddhify. We primarily use our various blogs and social media accounts to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. buddhify takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, buddhify may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in buddhify’s sole discretion. buddhify encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

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The Best Value Mindfulness App for your Company

More and more companies and organisations are introducing mindfulness to their employees to manage stress and support productivity. The best-value way to do that is to buy a copy of buddhify for all of your employees, through the Apple Volume Purchase Program or Google Play for Work.

4 Great Reasons to Buy buddhify for Your People

It works. buddhify is a best-selling, critically-acclaimed mindfulness app helping people develop calm, self-awareness and kindness at work and beyond.
Best value. Unlike expensive subscription services or face-to-face classes, buddhify is available from $2 to $5 a head depending on the volume of apps invested in.
Low risk. It is easy to start small, buying a trial amount of the app and scaling up if your people find it as valuable as its existing users already do.
Whole life. You know that all of our life affects our work. Therefore buddhify’s emphasis on mindfulness in all parts of the day shows you care about the whole person, not just the employee.

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