The art of doing voiceovers for meditations, sleep stories and relaxation apps
The art of meditation voiceovers, voiceovers for anxiety and voiceovers for sleep stories and relaxation apps
The trend has been building for a while now as relaxation, meditation, and sleep apps are growing. Of course, it has, when so many of us are anxiety relieving junkies now.
There are a couple of different categories within and around these apps. Some feature strictly meditation, some for stress relief, some for sleep, and some cover all of them.
Meditations come in categories of generative, receptive, and concentrative, then it funnels to more specifics, mindfulness, vipassana, visualization, loving-kindness, and gratitude among some.
the list and creativity are growing by the day, and ordinary people who have a bit of change laying around are hiring app developers to create an app. I am not one of those people who have anything extra laying around, so no app sadly, but I should have my own, heck yes! I see a ton of auditions on backstage for meditation and sleep story voiceovers, but exactly who are they hiring if not the experts? small unknown companies are just out to jump on the bandwagon to make a buck or two riding the app wave and since there’s lots of hiring for voiceovers for anxiety relief, meditations, and stress relief, you should know what to do to land those jobs.
I am an expert at teaching meditation, relaxation, and sleep techniques thanks to my training in yoga since 1992 and living in India for quite a while with the Tibetans and learning as much as I could about all types of meditation practices, some well-known, others secret.
It still delightfully surprises me when People hear my voice years after they’ve have been in class with me and pinpoint me out of a crowd, so many come up to me saying, “Oh Cinde I know it was you by your voice. I used to be in your classes.” You can read more bout me and my lifesaving voice in my bio, Because this is about voiceovers for meditation and what it takes to do them.
Some of the meditation apps I have used and some I have not. I mostly prefer enjoy using visualized guided meditations when I go to sleep. But I have used plenty of other Interesting ones. I love , I usually never get to hear how they end. I have a nice one I used before that I would love to get back to but I cant seem to find it anymore. I also had one on my old I phone but cant find what I used before either.
Being an expert at meditation and having tried many many before
Here are some of the relaxation apps you might have seen before.
In the relaxation market, you have the top players such
as Mindbody, 10% Happier, Sleep Cycle, 7Cups, CALM, Headspace, Up. An internet search can bring you a dozen or more top meditation apps for use. A nice hybrid is insight timer, and their app is substantially powered with all sorts of bells and whistles and offers mindfulness, sleep, relaxation and more. Some are voiced by experts in psychology and they even tout some done by neuroscientists. All leaders in their field, of course. The meditations have specific times to them depending on what you need, and you can interact to see who and how many have done that particular track. Pretty neat.
When my daughter has something interesting to say, she says “fun fact”
so here is my recent “Fun Fact” I applied at the company Calm to be the director of sleep stories. I would have been a perfect fit having over 20 years of experience and being on the science side of meditation and relaxation where I have poured over hundreds of articles and scientific journals about sleep, regulated breathing and relaxation and the effects on the blood pressure and health performance and well being of the body. Having a college degree in Health and wellness I was on that trend way before others picked it up, I was drinking green smoothies a long time ago. I used to be a wheatgrass junkie I never looked better. Needless to say, Calm never got back to me. It was a dream job to be the head voiceover director there and working with other voiceover talents. Actually, there is an art and finesse to doing voiceovers for meditations and relaxation. I have heard quite a few “cringy” voiceover meditations, ones that I thought how did they give that person that job, not to mention bad voiceover recording post-production or just plain bad voiceover recording itself.
I cannot tell you which is a good one for you as this article is not about the app itself, it is about how to do voiceovers for meditation, Anxiety, relaxation, and sleep.
Who uses these types of apps? All sorts of people and it is becoming increasingly more and more popular, of course, guided relaxation and meditations go way back to ancient times. All major cultures of the ancient world used various types of breath control, mental visualization, and suggestions to go deep within the psyche. It is just now that since has paid enough attention to study it now, and only the tip of the iceberg is being studied.
The cold war Russia secretly used a specific meditation called remote viewing used to spy. Im sure it wasn’t just Russia who used that technique before and I one time I accidentally fell into a remove viewing meditation, at a very secure government establishment and was told to “get out”, (honest truth, I skedaddled for sure.) Some have used collective meditation to inspire peace over troubled countries, Christ is meditated. Sports teams and athletes meditate and use visualizations for their performance. All the mystic elements of what the brain can achieve are now becoming palpable.
What does it take to do meditation voiceovers? First of all, it takes experience. First, you must become a student you must understand the deep connections of meditations for you to truly speak to the listener. Meditation and relaxation voiceovers a very personal intimate space in the ears of a listener. It’s different but similar in a way to commercial or E-learning projects, you have to be up close and personal, that means you have to be up close and personal about your own practice with it, meaning you should be doing it, and not just that brief 5 minutes after the end of your yoga class either.
Try using some to fall asleep by, not just meditation music, but also spoken word visualizations.
After you have become the student and immersed yourself in meditations and learning about the different styles and types of it, you’ll find a particular genre you gravitate to, whether it is mindfulness meditation, gratitude meditations, progressive relaxation techniques, guided inspiration, or sleep stories, or something else, you’ll use that to inspire your meditation voiceover.
So go have fun looking around for some meditations, some visualizations, or any other type of meditative content you can, and in the next article, I will tell you what else is needed to achieve success in meditation voiceovers.
If you have any questions or comments I will be happy to help, or if you are a wellness or life coach and need custom voiceovers for your clients, or need custom voiceovers for anxiety, performance, happiness, or anything you need, i can custom write a script for you depending on your needs, or if your the Calm company and want to bring me on board, Im here for you!