Add Meditation as a new activity / sport type

[Shant]

I think adding Meditation as an activity type will be great for Strava. 

This is important because:

• Meditation helps athletes calm their mind and improve mental health before big races
• Strava can partner with guided meditation apps like Calm or Headspace to send directly to the activity feed like Peloton/Zwift
• As an incentive and benefit for subscribers, Strava can give free access to Calm/Headspace/Tara Brach/Sam Harris specifically for endurance athletes. Headspace has partnered with Nike. 
• Meditation activity can be set to private to respect athletes and athletes can choose if they want to make it public by opting in.

An example of when I would want this feature is every morning. I try to take one deep breath every day and would do it more often if I saw that my friends are doing it too. And I'm interested to know who they follow and which guided sessions they use. Thank you Strava! 

[DeanCrabb]

It would be good to have a new activity type of mindfulness. I currently use a third-party app on my Garman watch to track it, which only syncs through to my Strava as general “workout” type of exercise. While mindfulness is not specifically a fitness exercise it has definitely been scientifically proven over the last 20 years to be beneficial to your overall well-being, stress, health, recovery, focus and sports performance. Mindfulness has become widely accepted as a beneficial practice in performance for athletes. Tracking mindfulness sessions and its effects on your health, well-being and performance would be very beneficial, similar to tracking an injury and its affect on your performance (I’ve seen another suggestion in this feed regarding injury tracking which I think is equally valuable). 

[Soren]

Thanks for submitting your idea to add meditation. It has been reviewed by our moderation team and is now open to voting.

[Zax]

Meditation should be subcategory of Yoga type.

[WillJohnson]

+1 from me. Apple Fitness has this workout type as an option.

[Shant]

Meditation and Mental Health 🙏

[hussey368]

Yes, mindfulness! My apple fitness mindfulness workouts won’t pull in. 

[Amogha]

Yes. +1 from me. Mindfulness and mental health is very essential and important for Athletes. 

[xavier]

+1

[Shant]

Hi all,

Are you in any meditation groups on Strava? 

I just joined Zen Runners. Are there others?

[Tptran]

+10 from me to have synchronization with Headspace

[JFB]

Superb idea and +100 from me. Would love to see Insight Timer stats getting uploaded to Strava, just as it does to Apple Health. No idea why this isn’t the case yet… 

[rusmo]

My garmin integration syncs meditation activities, and it shows up as a "Workout." I change it to Yoga, but that doesn't feel right. Please add a Breathwork or Meditation activity ASAP!

[CaptnDom]

Garmin and Apple Health has meditation as activity type. Please add it.

[L1zard]

100% this should be something Strava should add!

[Captn_awesome]

Why has Meditation and /or mindfulness still not been added as an activity type? I see that integrations for Oura are now complete; however breath work and meditation do not syc from Oura to Strava. Also, the Garmin meditations sync over as workouts still. Monthly cost are increasing for Strava, so I would hope that this can be added sooner than later.