As we look ahead to a new year, perhaps you've considered getting in touch with your spiritual side—but don't know where to begin. After all, spirituality is a vast topic and can seem a bit daunting. Who can you turn to for advice? What changes are you seeking? What kind of life do you want to lead?
Regardless of your beliefs or what you hope to accomplish, there are countless voices out there who want to help you on your spiritual journey. These spirituality podcasts can be a wonderful and accessible way to find out more. Here are 10 of our favorites, covering a wide range of spiritual paths and philosophies. We're sure one or more of these will resonate with you on the road ahead. So, take a deep breath and start exploring!
Over the course of this Audible Original podcast, renowned spiritual advisor and bestselling author Deepak Chopra reinforces a core message: The surest path to self-development is through our vital connection to the world around us. As he says, "You can only change what you're aware of." And so, Chopra speaks with a range of guests to discover how they were able to change and redefine their lives through harnessing deep awareness and a mind-body connection. Among the esteemed guests featured in the 12 episodes: activist and advocate X González, yoga teacher and body positivity advocate Jessamyn Stanley, antiracism educator Layla Saad, multidisciplinary artist Jon Batiste, US poet laureate Joy Harjo, and Oprah Winfrey. At the end of each interview, Chopra leaves his listeners with a guided meditation, which will give you an opportunity to reflect and reconnect with yourself.
Calm World is an Audible Original podcast hosted by neuroscientist Ash Ranpura and comedian Alice Fraser. Together, Ash and Alice will introduce you to the world of meditation and the science, history, and culture behind it. Ash and Alice's approach to meditation is light, fun, and accessible, so if you've ever thought meditation was too difficult or might not be for you, Calm World is a perfect opportunity to find that mind-body connection for perhaps the first time ever. Once you know the science behind meditation and the reasons why it might be beneficial for you, why not give it a try?
Day 1: Deep Release,and then working your way through the program, day-by-day, to see how each episode builds on what you've learned from previous episodes. And if any of the guided meditations resonate with you more than others, you can always return to them, time and again, whenever you wish.
Though it's technically a podcast, music producer and performer Brandon Green's groundbreaking Audible Original is more of an uncategorizable sound experience. The artist more commonly known as Maejor consults with diverse experts in this spiritually enlightening series to decode our deep connection to rhythm and the healing benefits of sound. Each episode invites listeners to meditate musically with topics covering love, DNA repair, stress, and anxiety as well as pain relief, attention span, and sleep. The result is a profound exploration of specific, intentional frequencies that help you discover and connect to a higher sense of well-being.
It is not always the big events and major accomplishments. Often, the smaller moments in life determine who we are and are not. Tell Them, I Am is about those small moments. The podcast centers and amplifies Muslim voices and lived experiences. Each episode features a guest—Ramy Youssef, G. Willow Wilson, and Malala Yousafzai among others—telling the story of one of these small but impactful moments from their lives. In the first season, host Misha Euceph also begins each episode with a short vignette about her own childhood experiences as an immigrant from Pakistan.
Join Somatics practitioner and movement facilitator Prentis Hemphill in their conversations with various artists, activists, and other leaders who are trying to transform and improve the world we live in. The podcast is about effecting the change we want to see by first uncovering ways to effect change within ourselves. These thoughtful discussions delve into gratitude, creativity, harm, healing, feeling whole, building power, and other topics of self-exploration and societal transformation.
If you have ever been interested in investigating esoteric and occult schools of thought as part of your spiritual journey, Know Thyself is a wonderful place to start. Hosts Daniel and Eduardo have conversations that are both incredibly informative and fun, while guiding listeners toward discovery of their True Self through insights about Tarot, astrology, and more. And you’ll want to keep coming back for the great camaraderie between the hosts, which keeps the podcast lively and engaging.
Tami Simon, founder of the spirituality-focused multimedia company Sounds True, interviews an array of spiritual leaders and visionaries about their journeys, including both their struggles and their breakthroughs. These profound conversations provide many spiritual lessons—from healing conflict through listening to and validating others to nourishing your body, heart, and spirit through sharing compassion and food—that you can embrace and apply to your own journey of spiritual inquiry and personal discovery.
Spiritual Grit is a show about the intersection of spirituality and activism. How can we tap into our best and truest selves and do so in the service of the greater good? Host Leslieann Hobayan, a poet, priestess, and life coach, offers wisdom and practices to help you find the answers to this and other big questions and apply them in your own life. Each episode features examples of poetry, books, oracle decks, or Tarot cards that listeners can reflect on.
Advaita Vedanta, also known as Nonduality, is a traditional Hindu philosophy based on the idea that the transient world we experience does not exist apart from Absolute Reality and is instead composed of different iterations and appearances of it. On The Bearded Mystic Podcast, Rahul N Singh explores Nonduality through analysis of Eastern scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita, reflective profiles on influential figures, and even guided meditations. Singh understands that spirituality is a unique journey for everyone and makes the podcast approachable for listeners of all backgrounds.
Host Tara Brach is both a psychologist and teacher of Buddhist meditation. With this unique combination of expertise, Brach fuses together ideas from Western psychology and Eastern mindfulness practice to try to maximize fulfillment. In this podcast, episodes alternate between hour-long lessons on applying Buddhist teachings to life and shorter guided meditations, both to help you achieve spiritual awakening and healing.
For a generous dose of energy with your spiritual rumination, tune in to Enthusiastically Spiritual, hosted by Teresa Shantz, an experienced spiritual educator and consultant. On the show, Shantz speaks to guests about metaphysical experiences they have had and discusses how to use those experiences in practical ways to better yourself and advance your spiritual development.
In one of the year’s most anticipated new podcasts, Michelle Obama brings listeners deeper into the world of her bestselling memoir, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times. Where the audiobook initiated a dialogue with listeners on some of life’s biggest challenges—from building lasting relationships and meaningful success to overcoming obstacles and navigating identity—the podcast will explore these themes and more with an esteemed selection of friends and luminaries. In intimate recordings from her star-studded book tour, the former First Lady draws on her trademark humor, warmth, and compassion to elicit moments of startling insight and vulnerability from guests including Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Tyler Perry, and Conan O’Brien. The result is a series of searching conversations that will leave you feeling smarter, inspired, and, yes, lighter.
