What Meditation Type Is Best For You? - by Giovanni Dienstmann

COURSE

What Meditation Type Is Best For You?

With Giovanni Dienstmann

This course will guide you through 9 carefully selected meditation practices, all of them from the Yogic Tradition. Over 10 sessions you will learn techniques using the body, mind, breath, sound, sight, heart, and consciousness—so you are sure to find the style that is most effective and most enjoyable for you.

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Meet your Teacher

Giovanni Dienstmann
Cairns QLD, Australia

Giovanni has been actively seeking personal growth and a deeper meaning in life since he was a teenager. In this process, he has practiced meditation daily (for the past 17+ years, totaling over 8,000 hours at this point), read hundreds of books, tried several different practices, spent time on retreats with masters and instructors around the world, and nearly became a monk a couple of times. Throughout his life, he has invested a lot of energy, study and experimentation on optimizing his mental and emotional states – and overcoming all limitations, especially those imposed by fear, attachment and ignorance, has been an area of focus for him. All this practice, learning and training has radically transformed his mind and view of the world. As a result, he now lives a fearless, peaceful, and fulfilling life. He is not a guru or a spiritual master – but a practitioner on the way, sharing the powerful tools and insights that have helped him thus far. I’m excited to share what I’ve learned, to empower people to grow, live well, be happy and free.

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10 Days

30.9k students

4.9 stars

23 min / day

Health & Happiness

English

Lesson 1

Alternating Nostrils Pranayama

It's time to turbo charge your meditation! This first meditation technique is actually a Pranayama (breathing practice from Yoga). It is a great preparation for any other meditation practice, and also a meditation practice on its own right. Remember, every day of the course, once you go through the lesson and do the practice, leave a comment in the classroom sharing how the practice went for you. This has a habit-reinforcing effect on you and on other course students. Also, feel free to ask any questions or share experiences. I actively participate in the classroom.

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Lesson 2

Spinal Breathing – Mantra & Breath To Take You Deep Inside

Today you’ll learn a popular meditation technique from the traditions of Kundalini Yoga, Kriya Yoga, and Tantra. It’s a powerful way that unites breathing, visualization and mantra in a single exercise—does giving your awareness a lot to chew on.

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Lesson 3

Yoga Nidra —Deep Relaxation With A Powerful Resolution

Yoga Nidra involves much more than the popular "body scan" meditation that you see everywhere. It is actually a traditional yogic technique which, beyond mere relaxation, helps you to expand your awareness and program your subsoncious mind according to your intentions.

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Lesson 4

Stable as a Mountain—Still Body, Still Mind

Mountains are icons of stability, grounding, and stillness. In this meditation you will use the power of active imagination, affirmations, and body awareness to make your body feel as still and unshakable as a mountain. As a result, you might feel calm, solid, relaxed, and self-assured. Before you get started, make sure you have an image in your memory of what a great mountain looks like. If not, just google Uluru or Mount Everest to give you an idea.

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Lesson 5

Trataka—Still eyes, Still Mind

The eyes are the most powerful sense, and, just like the mind, they are constantly moving and restless. The principle of this ancient and unique meditation is: still your eyes, and you still your mind. You will need a candle for this exercise, and a table or chair to put it on, so that it’s at eye level, and an arm-length away. For safety reasons, make sure to close all the doors and windows, so there are no draughts.

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Lesson 6

Nada Yoga—The Sound Of Silence

In this meditation, we will drive the mind to turn inside in search of “internal sounds”. As a result, it gets quieter, subtler, and sharper. For this practice a quiet environment is desirable. If you can’t get access to one, then using earplugs is a good idea. Otherwise the external sound will compete with your attention for hearing internal sounds.

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Lesson 7

Blissfulness Meditation—Joyful Here & Now

This meditation was a technique I developed based on the Buddhist Loving-Kindness meditation. The principle is the same: to learn how to create emotional states inside of you without an external stimulus. This brings a great sense of emotional independence or liberation. Just like with loving-kindness meditation, some people will love this practice, and others might feel frustrated thinking they cannot generate the feeling. If you are the latter, then take it easy, accept your experience as it comes, and learn to give a bit more power to your own imagination.

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Lesson 8

Inner Silence—The Yogic Way To Mindfulness

The technique of Antar Mouna (“Inner Silence”) was developed by Swami Satyananda of the Bihar School of Yoga, based on ancient Tantric practices. It is a technique that focuses on developing a strong awareness and mindfulness before introducing concentration and thoughtlessness into the mix. This technique is especially helpful for those that have a very restless mind, and are otherwise unable to concentrate by using other techniques. You start by getting to know yourself, your mind and your senses, and this already calms down the mind and puts some order into the chaos.

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Lesson 9

Self-Enquiry—Abiding As Pure I Am

Today’s meditation is, in a way, the most advanced and subtle technique in this course—that is why I left it for last. We will work with the subtlest of all objects—consciousness itself. You will be guided to turn away from thoughts and perceptions, back into the pure I Am. Self-enquiry (atma-vichara) is a meditation technique that originates in the Advaita Vedanta tradition, and was updated and popularized by the modern sage Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950).

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Lesson 10

Choosing Your Practice

Today we will review the meditations you experienced in this course, and go through some guidelines for choosing the ideal practice for you.

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This course includes 607 community questions and 31 audio replies from Giovanni Dienstmann. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Susan

February 2, 2026

Very informative, thank you

Nora

January 21, 2026

I really enjoyed this insight into learning newediatiom techniques and reflecting on my personal experience of each one. I'd highly recommend journalling about your experimece immediately after of each one. I liked Guovanni's introduction and the beginning of each one too. His voice was very soothing. I will definitely revist the course again, and look forward to choosing main meditation to build a consistant practice with. Thank you :)

Grace

December 22, 2025

This was an enlightening journey. Thank you for introducing me to so many different styles of meditation. I learned so much and appreciate how you discussed the how to and the differences . I especially appreciate the last session where you ask us questions on what we preferred and made recommendations. Thank you!

Robert

December 12, 2025

Very nice informative and good insight in many different meditation techniques. Good food for thought and will need a second round to get my head around them all. Thanks Giovanni.

Joe

November 20, 2025

Fantastic and enlightening. Thank you!

jo

November 20, 2025

Well explained and to the point. Enlightening.

Joe

November 9, 2025

I enjoyed an insight to various forms of meditation.

Kate

November 4, 2025

So so good!

Bob

November 3, 2025

The course was extremely helpful to me as a beginner. Having guided examples of many techniques gave me a basis from which to learn. The last class provided concrete pointers for me to move forward.

Tammy

October 14, 2025

I enjoyed exploring the difference ways of meditation.

Dana

October 10, 2025

Excellent! I learned so much from this course and will no doubt check back with it now and then. I discovered a favorite technique and am even more excited about my meditations later day and onward. Thank you so much!

Lorie

October 4, 2025

This course was outstanding and informative. Very enlightening. I will definitely review lesson 10. I did take lots of notes.❤️

John

September 30, 2025

I was amazed at the variations of meditations available & what each one is aimed at. I feel, for me, to get the full benefit of your teachings, I must do your course again, so I will re commence today. Thank you for this wonderful course & looking forward to more of your teachings.

Lisa

September 9, 2025

This is a great course for learning about different meditations. I’ve been meditating for years, but this course helped me learn some new methods and which methods work best for me. 🙏

Cate

August 30, 2025

I had been struggling to find a practice that I was comfortable and able to do, this course covered many different types of meditation. Some of which I never knew. I’m really pleased to have completed this course. Having on found my preferred practices I just need to decide out of the three I found beneficial, the one I will use for my daily meditation practice. The tutorial at the beginning of each session was very informative and helped with picturing the practice itself. I will definitely use this course again.

Andrew

June 26, 2025

Really practical and clear introduction. Great balance of teaching and practice. I am inspired to continue on my journey and seek more of your teachings

Sharon

May 27, 2025

Very educational and easy to understand. I look forward to trying each technique again to find the one(s) that work for what my body needs 🧘❤️

Steph

May 9, 2025

Outstanding course! I’m so glad I found this course early in my meditation journey. Learning about different meditation modalities and experiencing how each one affects me has been a gift. I can’t recommend this course enough - 10 stars! I’ll definitely be back to explore it again. Loved it! Thank you!

Philip

May 4, 2025

Wonderful teacher! Taught me so much! Thank you!

Jorge

April 22, 2025

Wonderful experience and gym to my mind … 🙌

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