r/Meditation vs r/yoga
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r/Meditation’s public description centers sharing experiences, stories and instruction for the practice of meditation. r/yoga’s directory text calls itself Reddit’s place for all things yoga.
In our directory, Meditation is slightly larger (about 3.6M, rank #279) than yoga (about 3.4M, rank #309). Activity samples show Meditation posting more often (~20 posts/day vs ~10). Meditation’s sample is essentially all text with flairs such as question, sharing/insight and discussion; yoga’s sample mixes text with images, links, galleries and video.
Rule titles: Meditation bans self-promotion, sockpuppets, low-effort off-topic posts and recruitment and limits guided-audio spam; yoga asks people to search the FAQ first, bans blogspam/ads/crowdfunding, medical advice and inappropriate content.
- Choose r/Meditation for sitting practice, insight and discussion under its no-promo and effort rules.
- Choose r/yoga for asana, yoga lifestyle and community posts under its FAQ and medical-advice limits.
- Both sit outside the current Top 100 cut; neither replaces the other for a different practice lane.
Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.
r/Meditation
Meditation
This community is for sharing experiences, stories and instruction relating to the practice of meditation.
- Members
- 3.6M
- 7-day growth
- +1.9K
- Posts/day
- 19.7
- Directory rank
- #279
- Created
- Oct 9, 2008
- Submissions
- Text or links
Sample mix: text posts 100%
Topics: Meditation & Mindfulness
Rule titles (short names we collected)
- No self-promotion
- Guided meditations and videos, blogs, playlists, audio, etc.
- Sockpuppet accounts
- Low effort and low quality content, off-topic.
- Be nice
- Recruitment
- Limitations on AI-Generated Content
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r/yoga
yoga
Reddit's best place for all things yoga.
- Members
- 3.4M
- 7-day growth
- +1.7K
- Posts/day
- 10
- Directory rank
- #309
- Created
- Apr 2, 2008
- Submissions
- Text or links
Sample mix: text posts 63%, images 12%, links 11%
Topics: Yoga
Rule titles (short names we collected)
- Rule 1 - Play nice.
- Rule 2 - Search and check FAQ first
- Rule 3- Blogspam, adverts, crowdfunding
- Rule 4- COMP
- Rule 5- Medical advice
- (Obvious) Rule 6- Inappropriate content
- (Also obvious) Rule 7- Piracy
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Supported differences
| Aspect | r/Meditation | r/yoga |
|---|
| Public focus (from each community’s public description) |
This community is for sharing experiences, stories and instruction relating to the practice of meditation. |
Reddit's best place for all things yoga. |
| Size r/Meditation is larger in our directory. |
3.6M members |
3.4M members |
| Posting activity (our sample) |
19.7/day |
10/day |
| Common post types in our sample |
text posts 100% |
text posts 63%, images 12%, links 11% |
| Topic tags on SubMouse |
Meditation & Mindfulness |
Yoga |
| Selected rule titles (short names we collected) |
No self-promotion; Guided meditations and videos, blogs, playlists, audio, etc.; Sockpuppet accounts; Low effort and low quality content, off-topic.; Be nice |
Rule 1 - Play nice.; Rule 2 - Search and check FAQ first; Rule 3- Blogspam, adverts, crowdfunding; Rule 4- COMP; Rule 5- Medical advice |
Rules and posting patterns we can verify
Meditation short titles include: no self-promotion; guided meditations and videos/blogs/playlists/audio limits; sockpuppet accounts; low effort and low quality content, off-topic; be nice; recruitment; limitations on AI-generated content. Our sample flairs include question, sharing/insight, discussion, resource and spirituality.
yoga: play nice; search and check FAQ first; blogspam, adverts, crowdfunding; COMP; medical advice; inappropriate content; piracy. Our sample mixes text with images, links, galleries and video.
Where this comparison comes from
Public titles, descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory (see the date on this page). Short rule titles and posting-activity samples SubMouse collected for both names. Rule lines are short titles only — not full sidebar text or post bodies.
Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.