From Aja's journal
Stories about rest, trust, and the moments and places that shape MeditationMinutes.
Ocean Drones for Sleep
Aja on the sleep track she built with no spoken guidance at all: slow drones layered over real ocean waves, meant to loop all night with the app's sleep timer, even in flight mode.
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Finding Your Way Through Grief
Aja on the weekend Norway lost King Harald V, the memories that came with it, and the 20-minute grief meditation she built around standing beneath a full moon.
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A Note From Aja: The One to Listen to Before You Walk on Stage
Aja on the hypnotherapy meditation she built for performance anxiety, opening with Scarborough Fair on solo violin and closing with a bonus Dowland piece, and why it's meant to be repeated, not just played once.
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Can Meditation Minutes Be an Immersive Experience?
An HBR article on immersive experiences gets Aja thinking about light shows, sound baths, and why that same wonder is already available to you, a few minutes at a time.
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The 5-4-3-2-1 technique: a simple way back to the present moment
A fast, senses-based grounding exercise for the days there's no time for a full meditation, and the personal story behind why Aja still uses it.
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You are already imagining. The question is what.
A psychologist's research on simulating, reconfiguring and transcending reality, why not everyone sees pictures, and the exercises behind Aja's goal-setting meditation, Imagine.
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Opening Doors
On von Suppé's Poet and Peasant, the poet and the peasant we all carry within us, and Imagine, a goal-setting meditation built around its overture on solo violin.
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AI brain fry? Here's a 10-minute reset.
What the research says about the mental fatigue of supervising AI tools, and the human-voiced soundscape Aja made to help you reset inside an ordinary workday.
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Healing is more than music
What the research on sound and healing actually says, and why Aja calls her tracks therapeutic soundscapes instead of meditations with music.
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The music that made Confucius forget the taste of food
An eighteenth-century ceremonial score, played exactly as written on solo violin, and the meditation Aja built from its six-part structure.
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What the birds were saying
Old weather-reading folklore, and what it teaches us about noticing our own early warning signs before the storm fully arrives.
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Water and the courage to trust what you feel
What dowsing for water with a forked stick can teach us about trusting our own gut feelings, and what meditation actually does.
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What resting cows taught me about trust
An old farming belief about cattle and good ground, and what it has to do with meditation, trust, and finding your own way back to rest.
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How I discovered Brother Klaus von Flüe — and why it changed my life
How a solo Easter trip to Switzerland led Aja to a 15th-century hermit's hermitage, and to recording The Healing Garden meditation.
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