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Best Meditation & Mindfulness Subreddits (November 2026)

Most meditation and mindfulness talk on Reddit happens in a few big places, but the smaller communities are where the specialists are. We checked the communities Reddit returns for “meditation” and “mindfulness”, kept the public, safe-for-work ones with at least 25,000 members that are still posting, and ranked the 6 that remain by size. Together they have 6.6M members.

How the meditation and mindfulness communities compare

Membership is concentrated: the three largest communities hold 87% of all members on this list, so most of the meditation and mindfulness conversation happens in a handful of places. Among the communities we track weekly, r/Meditation grew fastest recently (+0.05%, +1.9K members since Oct 26). The oldest is r/Meditation, founded in 2008, and every community here is more than five years old — this is a long-established corner of Reddit.

The 6 biggest meditation and mindfulness subreddits

  1. r/Meditation 3,567,292 members · +1.9K since Oct 26 · since 2008

    This community is for sharing experiences, stories and instruction relating to the practice of meditation.

  2. r/Mindfulness 1,485,062 members · +338 since Oct 26 · since 2010

    Mindfulness is awareness of one's internal states and surroundings.

  3. B
    r/Buddhism ↗ 707,343 members · since 2008

    A reddit for all kinds of Buddhist teachings

  4. S
    r/Stoicism ↗ 696,833 members · since 2009

    We are a community committed to learning about and applying philosophical Stoic principles and techniques.

  5. Z
    r/zen ↗ 132,397 members · since 2008

    Zen (禪, Dhyāna, Chán, Seon, Thiền) Welcome to /r/Zen! Please browse our Wiki and Frequently Asked Questions, There's a lot of great content in them. Four Statements of Zen * The separate transmission outside the teachings, * Not…

  6. T
    r/TheMindIlluminated ↗ 52,699 members · since 2016

    This is a forum for getting help with your practice of meditation as taught by Culadasa in The Mind Illuminated.

Choosing where to post

A simple rule of thumb: ask questions in the specialised communities and share your best finds in the big ones, where they can reach the most people. Always read the rules in the sidebar first — each community is run by its own volunteer moderators. Our guide to searching Reddit explains how to dig through any of these communities, and the subreddit info tool gives you the stats of one we don't list.

Frequently asked questions

What is the biggest meditation and mindfulness subreddit?

r/Meditation is the largest, with 3,567,292 members, followed by r/Mindfulness (1.5M) and r/Buddhism (707.3K).

How many meditation and mindfulness subreddits are there?

We list 6 active, safe-for-work meditation and mindfulness communities with at least 25,000 members each, 6.6M members in total (people can be in several). Reddit has many smaller ones too; our guide on searching Reddit shows how to find them.

What is the oldest meditation and mindfulness subreddit?

r/zen, created on Mar 23, 2008.

Are these meditation and mindfulness subreddits safe for work?

Yes. Every community on this page is public and not marked 18+ by Reddit, and we filter out communities whose name or description points to adult content.

Data: Reddit's public subreddit search and the Arctic Shift archive (Nov 6, 2026), growth from SubMouse's weekly snapshots. Member counts of communities outside our Top 1000 come from the archive and can lag a little. Not affiliated with Reddit.