Product Reviews

The Zen Alarm Clock from Now & Zen makes waking up a pleasure. The clock's progressive chime strikes gradually, slowly easing you from sleep into a waking state. This leaves you feeling more refreshed and alert, and also helps significantly with dream recall.

The Zen Alarm Clock uses a resonating chime reminiscent of Tibetan bells. The alarm is progressive, beginning with only a single chime. A few minutes later, the chime strikes again. The interval between chimes gradually decreases. As the minutes pass, the chimes become more frequent, until they ultimately begin to sound every five seconds.

The benefits of waking up gradually are numerous. Rather than being jolted awake, as is common with a more traditional alarm clock, you are …Click here to read more about how a Zen Alarm Clock can help you wake up feeling more refreshed

Luminous Dimensions is a unique presentation combining stunning visuals with beautifully relaxing music. The animation by Michael DuBois is deeply meditative and is light-years beyond other animation videos we've encountered in the past. Combine wonderfully hypnotizing visuals with the soothing sounds of ambient music composed by Jeff Pearce and you have the perfect mix.

We encountered the Luminous Dimensions DVD more than a year ago. It immediately made it onto our Recommended Books & Videos list, and rightfully so. Luminous Dimensions is a blissful journey we feel you'll thoroughly enjoy. The DVD is a fantastic tool for relaxation, meditation, pain management, or shamanic journeying.

The music is delightful and has a very peaceful, calming effect. You may even want to leave the music playing in the background as you read, work, or do yoga, though we find the animation equally hard to resist! If you play the DVD for background music and happen to walk by the television, you may very likely find yourself entranced by the amazing eye candy this DVD offers.

The Luminous Dimensions DVD is available through Amazon.com and through the Numinations web site.

The Sleeptracker watch is an innovative tool to help you get the most from your sleep. Worn on the wrist while you sleep, the watch monitors your sleep cycles and awakens you at the optimal moment so you feel more rested and refreshed throughout the day.

We all know the feeling of waking up groggy after being roused from deep sleep by the alarm clock. Sleeptracker is designed to solve that problem. You simply set a designated wake-up window, such as "between 7:00 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.", and Sleeptracker will sound the alarm when it records a moment of lighter sleep during that window. As a failsafe, if no moment of lighter sleep occurs, the alarm will sound automatically at the end of the window.

As a bonus, the watch records your sleep data throughout the night and stores the data so it may be easily retrieved in the morning. Our testers found the sleep data feature extremely beneficial when …Click here to read more about the Sleeptracker watch

For many people, finding a comfortable position in which to meditate is a challenge. We're constantly on the lookout for comfortable seating options our customers can use while listening to the Insight CD. That's why we were thrilled when we came across the Wandering Monk Chair created by Zen By Design.

The chair is elegant and stylish, yet entirely portable. It weighs less than five pounds and can be folded in half for easy carrying. Best of all, it comes with a height-adjustable backrest to provide support for the lower back. The seat also tilts the pelvis ever so slightly, creating the ideal angle for positioning the legs.

Zen By Design offers the Wandering Monk Chair in mahogany or maple, with nineteen different fabrics to choose from so you can design a chair to suit your personal style. They also offer a Rama Warrior Chair, Samurai Chair, and Dhyana Chair for meditators who prefer other seating or furniture styles. Their chairs are quite beautiful and definitely worth checking out.

The Mindfold Relaxation Mask is a terrific tool we came across almost entirely by accident, and it turned out to be quite a serendipitous find. Never have we come across a relaxation mask more suitable for meditation, making the Mindfold a perfect complement to our Insight CD.

Unlike most relaxation or sleep masks, the Mindfold mask is uniquely pre-cut with "eye-holes", allowing you to keep your eyes open underneath the mask. The mask effectively blocks all light, leaving the meditator in complete darkness, even with eyes wide open. As many of our customers have discovered, simply leaving your eyes open can provide a very different meditative experience than meditating with eyes closed. Unfortunately, when surrounded by visual stimuli, it is often difficult to calm the mind and achieve a deeply meditative state. The Mindfold solves this problem by …Click here to read more about the Mindfold Mask