A meditation course built around your goal.

A personal meditation course is a sequence of guided meditations built around something you've told the app you're working on. It has a beginning, a shape and an end, usually somewhere between three and fourteen sessions. In StillMind you choose the kind of journey, the tone and how far you want to go, and the app composes the curriculum: a course name, an arc, and a named session-by-session sequence with its own technique focus and length for each one.

That depends on the length you choose when you create it. Short is a gentle start to build on, Standard gives room to build a real habit, and Deep is the full path. Courses run roughly three to fourteen sessions depending on the type and length, and each session comes out between 5 and 30 minutes based on your experience level. There's no timetable to keep up with, so you take the next session when you're ready for it.

Yes. Each session's script is written fresh at the moment you press play rather than pulled from a library, so no two are identical, even within the same course. Every one is anchored to the goal you gave at the start and placed in the arc, which is why a later session picks up where the earlier ones left off. You can also change the narrating voice from one session to the next.

The arc is set when the course is created, so the order of techniques and themes is decided up front. After a session you can reflect on how it landed, and that reflection shapes the next one: how much guidance you get and how it's framed. It doesn't move the focus of the next session or reorder the arc. Adaptation happens inside the plan rather than to it.

On an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence, the course plan itself and the running “journey so far” narrative that carries it forward are both generated on the device by Apple Foundation Models. On other devices, or if the on-device model cannot run them, they are generated in the cloud instead. The long-form session script is always written in the cloud. Either way, what leaves your phone is a short list of derived labels, each capped at 64 characters, and never the text of your journal entries.

The goal you set at the start holds for that course. It's what every session is anchored to, and it shouldn't drift while you're in the middle of the path. If what you're working on genuinely changes, you create a new course around the new goal, and the sessions you've already done stay in your history. Reflections let you adjust how the course feels as you go without moving the target.

That depends on the type you pick and how far you want to go. A Techniques course runs 3 sessions at Short, 5 to 7 at Standard and 10 to 14 at Deep. Loving-kindness runs 3, 6 or 8, moving through the traditional circles of metta one at a time. Goal-based runs 5, 8 or 12, because one intention needs room to be approached from several angles. Self-discovery runs 4, 6 or 8. You see the whole sequence, every session named, before you begin.

None at all. Your experience level shapes the course rather than gating it. A beginner gets sessions of around 5 to 15 minutes that introduce a technique one piece at a time, with guidance that stays generous the whole way through. Someone further along gets 15 to 30 minute sessions and a course that refines the practice they already have rather than starting from the definition. All four course types are open at every level.

That's what the Goal-based course is for. You choose the area your goal sits in, whether that's calm and stress, focus and clarity, sleep and rest, confidence and self-belief, or connection with others, then say in one sentence what you actually want, spoken or typed. That sentence becomes the spine of the course. The arc then moves through orienting to the goal, building a foundation, deepening, integrating and embodying it, so the same intention is met from a different angle each session.

Yes, and it follows the traditional sequence. A loving-kindness course works through the classical circles of metta: yourself, a benefactor, a dear friend, someone neutral, someone difficult, and finally all beings. You say who you most want to hold in mind and what would feel like progress, and the course paces those circles across 3, 6 or 8 sessions depending on the length you choose. A short course keeps the pillars and drops the middle circles. It opens with yourself in most cases, and can start with a benefactor instead when self-directed practice would be the harder place to begin.

A Techniques course centers on a single technique for its whole length: breath focus, body scan, visualization, mantra or sound awareness. You pick the one you want, or let the app choose based on what you say you find hardest. A beginner course opens it up gradually, so a breath course moves from the breath at the nose to the breath at the belly to counting. An advanced one takes the same technique toward whole-body breathing and choiceless awareness. Guidance stays generous throughout, because you are learning something.

Every course type and every length is open to everyone, and building a course uses no sessions by itself. What a course draws on is your monthly allowance of guided sessions: you need at least one remaining to start a course, and each session you play uses one. StillMind Plus raises that monthly allowance. The longer courses are available on every tier, and there is no separate course purchase.