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Pricing Custom Meditations: Scaling Your Message Without Burnout

Is your personalized meditation practice a time-for-money trap? Explore the market data and learn how to grow sustainably.
David Stack by David Stack · Updated

As a meditation teacher, you know that personalization is where the deepest transformation happens.

When you tailor a session to a student's specific struggle—whether it's anxiety, a high-stakes meeting, or chronic insomnia—the impact is profound. But there's a problem that most teachers eventually hit: the time-for-money trap.

From my research, I found that the total average cost for a week's worth of personalized meditations from a teacher in the United States and Canada is $1,053.92.

While that reflects the immense value of your expertise, it also reveals a hard truth: the traditional model for custom meditation is unsustainable for you to scale, and cost-prohibitive for the vast majority of people who need your help.

The Market Reality: What Your Peers Are Charging

In February 2026, I took a deep dive into the market for custom meditations. I spent hours combing through the websites of guides across North America to understand how they price their personalized services.

If you're wondering how your own rates compare, or how to structure your offerings, here is what the data showed:

  • Accessible ($25–$80): These are typically short (10–20 minute) recordings with basic customization and often no 1:1 consultation.
  • Mid-Range ($80–$150): This is where the majority of custom meditations reside. They usually include a brief consultation and a 20–30 minute tailored recording.
  • Premium ($200+): These involve in-depth consultations, follow-up sessions, longer meditations (30+ minutes), and a wide array of customization choices.

The median cost for a single custom meditation is $144.50.

Competitive Benchmarks across North America

I found a wide spectrum of pricing strategies that highlight the challenge of balancing high-touch service with a sustainable business model.

Accessible ($25–$80):

  • Dr. Maria Rothenburger in Oregon offers personalized fertility meditations for $25. Her package is unique in providing three tracks: vocal guidance with music, vocal only, and music only.
  • Gaby de la Mora in Illinois offers a “Bronze” level (11-15 minutes) for $39, one of the lowest entry points I found during my research.
  • Deborah King in Washington provides personalized audio meditations for $75.

Mid-Range ($80–$150):

Premium ($200+):

  • Sunni at A Moment with Sunni offers a personalized meditation video and a 30-minute private call for $222.
  • Dominique Hurley in Newfoundland offers ~30-minute custom meditations for $247 CAD each.
  • Jewelia Orlick in Quebec charges $250 for a package that includes a 45-minute private consultation, a custom audio recording, and a 20-minute follow-up session.
  • At the extreme end of the coaching spectrum, some teachers offer monthly commitments that can reach as high as $6,900 for a full suite of personalized guidance.

The Factors Driving These Prices

When you're pricing your own work, you know it's not just "per minute" of audio. The cost reflects the depth of your process:

  • Consultation Time: The length and depth of the initial discovery phase.
  • Complexity of Customization: Theme selection, guidance levels, specific techniques, and soundscape choices.
  • Production Overhead: Scripting, recording, editing, and mixing.

For a student to maintain a daily practice for just one week using these traditional methods, the median cost is $1,011.50. As a teacher, providing this level of support manually for even five students would consume your entire week.

The Problem: The Limits of Generic Content

While the cost of personalized work is high, the alternative—generic, one-size-fits-all content—often fails to meet the student's needs.

Imagine the difference between a rigid fitness routine and a personal trainer who adjusts based on how you feel that morning. Generic meditations can't adapt to the subtle shifts in a student's inner landscape. But your time doesn't scale linearly with the demand for that personalization.

Scaling Your Message Without Sacrificing Personalization

The traditional model is a time-for-money trap. Your impact is capped by the hours in your day, and your reach is limited to those who can afford premium rates.

I built Elora to help you break this model. Not a tool to replace you, but an instrument to amplify your voice.

What if you could provide tailored, specific meditations for anxiety, focus, sleep, or grief to an unlimited number of students, without the manual labor of recording every single track from scratch?

See how it feels to:

  • Co-Create with the Script Editor: Go from a theme to a professional draft in seconds, then add your unique message.
  • Keep Your Presence with Voice Cloning: Maintain that intimate connection using a studio quality clone of your own voice.
  • Professional Audio Without the Engineer: Access a curated soundscape library and mixer that handles the audio engineering work for you.

You have the wisdom and the presence. Elora provides the technical leverage to share your message with everyone, not just the few who can afford a $1,000-a-week price tag.

Now you can build a sustainable practice where your message is no longer capped by your calendar.

Share your message. And your workload.

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