Well, it’s been a long time coming, but today finally see’s the
launch of our brand new website and app - at least in beta version anyway. We
know there will be a few bugs in the system, and more than a few wrinkles to
iron out, so thanks in advance for your patience and understanding - and of
course please let us know if you find something that needs changing. The truth
is, we simply couldn’t contain ourselves any longer and just really wanted to
share this with you going into the year ahead.
But of course it’s so much more than just a new look and feel here at Headspace (which we hope you’ll love as much as we do by the way), because it’s also the launch of the much-talked-about and brand-spanking-new ‘Headspace Journey’. This is something incredibly exciting and truly unique - different daily guided meditations for every single day of the year, in a graduated course, with easy-to-learn, scientifically-validated techniques, and over 270 hours of instructional, inspirational, and motivational content. Wow!
A few other things to tell you:
Your current email and password should still be good to go so you can use these to log in. The log in tab is at the top right of the page. If you have forgotten your password you can request a reminder there as well.
You will notice that the ‘feedback’ from the old site will no longer be working on this site. After weighing up the pros and cons of the benefit of this to your practice and until we have fine-tuned the feedback loop we feel that the new features such as Headspace Motivate, Active and Extra are perhaps more useful for keeping your meditation on track and we hope that you find them inspiring!
When you get to the website you will be taken to your very own ‘My Headspace’ page, where you will see all the day meditations. If you have previously bought Take 15 and/or 20, you will still be able to access these from this page (and you will be able to forever). It may well be, (technical bugs are sometimes hard to find and zap out!), that you are not on the correct day of meditation. So if this is the case, you can click through the days (by clicking on ‘I’m ready for my next day’ to the bottom right of the audio player), to get to where you want to.
…..and here’s the best news. For those of you who finished Take 20 long ago and have been waiting patiently for the next step…well it’s now here! You can now get access to the rest of the Headspace Journey (which is now 365 days of meditation to be exact!). To get access to the rest of the journey, you need to subscribe with us. Subscription gives you access to the Headspace Journey online for as long as you chose to get some. You can buy access to it all month by month, year by year, or forever! (See our new shop page).
And if you’ve always wanted to come to a Headspace event, we have more upcoming events on the horizon for you. They are still in London, but are definitely new and improved. New venue, new timings and new (much cheaper!), price. Check out all the information for the Events from the Shop Page.
We also have a brand new app on its way. ‘Headspace (on-the-go)' is currently getting it's stabilisers taken off by the Apple review team, so we hope to have this with you very very soon! If you are using our current iPhone or Android app please note that this will stop working very shortly and you will need to delete this version and download our new app when it comes out. We'll be sure to keep you in the loop when it's time to download. iPad users will need to delete the current app and download the iPhone app to use until our iPad native version comes out very soon! Until the new app is ready you can obviously still meditate on the website so please get stuck in!
So, no matter whether you’ve been with us since the early days (and if you have, thank you so much for your continued support), or you’ve just stumbled across us for the very first time, do please take the time to look around the site and the app, both of which have more features than we know what to do with! But there’s much more than just that to look at this coming weekend. We’ve also got a very exciting partnership with the Guardian and Observer, in which we’ll be giving away a ‘Think Yourself Fit’ mini-book on Saturday, together with an inspirational CD on how to fulfill your New Years Resolutions on Sunday. So look out for your free copies of both when you buy your newspapers this weekend.
But before I sign off today, I’d like to take this opportunity to extend a massive thank you to the entire team here at Headspace for their incredible dedication and tireless enthusiasm in bringing this project to fruition. I know they are all very excited to see it launch today and are every bit as keen as me to see you benefit from all the new features, meditations and other content. So, thanks again for stopping by and for getting involved in the Headspace Journey - we really hope you like it!
Have a great weekend, Andy