Jon Kabat-Zinn JKZ Meditations

I subscribed to this app to follow along as I read Full Catastrophe Living. I think the app is a nicer convenience than downloading the meditations from the website (yes you can buy them individually for a one time cost from the website instead! You don’t have to pay this monthly subscription) because they are easy to find and pull up this way. But. But. Sometimes the play/pause button gets stuck in one state or the other, and sometimes the 10s forward/rewind buttons are unresponsive, and when I tried to submit feedback I felt like I got the runaround the first couple messages (try resinstalling the app, it’s normal behavior, etc) and when it seems like an app can’t reliably fulfill the basic functions of an audio player, why should it cost a monthly subscription? I expect some amount of that cost to go toward maintenance and I’m just not seeing it, I don’t think this app is polished enough for more than 3 stars. The meditations are good though.

After Ive listened 2 ir 3 separate times, the APP says to restore. When it says restore, it has to be deleted and then downloaded and reinstalled. I’ve mailed the app for help but was just told to do what Ive already done. I paid for the subscription and would like my user experience to be smoother. Please fix the App.

I was looking for some additional guided meditations to supplement others I use periodically. I do a combination of self guided meditations and those guided by others. I was reading Kabat-Zinn’s book (Full Castrophe Living) and decided to try his meditations. This is exactly what I was looking for in an app. This is a reasonably priced app with some excellent guided meditations, a beginners review of meditation and some guided yogas. The biggest surprise is that I was not expecting to find the yogas so helpful. The only feedback I have for the developers of the app is that I don’t like the bells at the beginning and end of each meditation, and I think its amusing that JKZ says on the other side of the “tape.” The tape reference I am presuming is because he has used some of this material over the years with his patients in the hospital setting.