Cool Koala: Bedtime Meditation Hack 3.5 + Redeem Codes

I feel so fortunate to have found Cool Koala for my 5 and 8 year old. Ryan and his good friend Cool Koala have become like family members each night, guiding our kids to sleep.

Our 8 year old has often spoken of having “too many tabs open” in her brain at bedtime. My wife began sharing some sleep meditations at one point but unfortunately the app we used only had a handful of mediations for kids. After a google search for more meditations for kids we found Cool Koala and it was an instant hit.

Meditations are new each night but follow a theme for each day of the week, which offers consistency of message. Routine is important to kids with anxiety as in our family, so knowing what will happen each Tuesday or Wednesday is always a plus. Ryan’s delivery is very calming but more importantly helps deliver a message or lesson in self affirmation to all kids but especially those suffering from anxiety. We also enjoy that each meditation runs about 15 minutes with half of the time being wind down time with calming music and ocean sounds to reflect on the lesson.

Its a tough time to be a parent and keep your cool. And it’s a tough time to be a kid, let alone one with anxiety. It’s comforting to know that each night when I hear “Hey! It’s Ryan! And I’m here with my good friend Cool Koala…” that positive messages at the end of a busy day will help my kids believe in themselves and bring the day to a calm, positive close.

Cool Koala is the meditation app that you NEED if you have children tend to get a little bit more excited, anxious, rambunctious, or just tend to need to find their center! I’ve been using koala with our three boys, especially at bedtime, for the last couple of months and it has made transitioning from being awake to being in a calm state and ready to fall asleep so much easier.

With the addition of a phone app we are now able to take a koala with us wherever we go help our kids find their "happy place" quickly and calmly. I cannot recommend this app enough for any parent and feel as though integrating Cool Koala into regular practice for daily life is integral for keeping kids happy and calm!

My 4.5-year-old always struggles to settle himself for bedtime. He wiggles and worms his way around bed trying to find a good position, finds it hard to resist asking all the questions in his brain at the end of the day, and requires lots of back rubs and pats. Bedtime was becoming frustratingly long for mom and dad. This app has helped us bypass all that. He readily jumps in bed to hear his koala friend. The calming intro and music immediately help him settle his body and calm his mind. The meditation lesson helps focus his thoughts and bring him closer to relaxation, and the music and environmental sounds at the end help lull him to sleep. The only downside is mom has to fight not to fall asleep, too! I found it truly relaxing even for myself. Great app.

I downloaded the Cool Koala app in order to help my son calm down at the end of the day and prepare for bedtime. After using this app for several months, I have seen a remarkable positive impact not only at bedtime, but throughout the day. The meditations offer breathing and visualization techniques which prove to be helpful in various situations (for example, imagining your worries put into a balloon and drifting away into the sky), and our son now asks to listen to Cool Koala every night.

From Ryan's calm voice to the relaxing accompanying guitar music, we have found this app and the meditations it provides to be the ideal way to close each day with our son. We highly recommend this app!

Cool Koala was the perfect fit for our bedtime routine. My 7 year old would get wound up at bedtime unloading all the struggles of his day but with Cool Koala the meditations help him to let go and relax.
Since using the app he falls asleep faster and has better sleep translating to better days. I see him integrating the coping techniques outside of using the app and he’s able to navigate through situations that in the past would have thrown off the whole day.
Thank you Ryan for sharing your talents with us.

What I love most about this app is that it gets straight to what you downloaded it for: the experience. It does a great job of serving up the content and keeping all the nuts and bolts of menus and granular options out of your way. I always know it will be immediately playing within seconds of opening it, which is worth more than it sounds like when dealing with a group of children finding their various paths into their separate serene settings. Thanks Cool Koala!

I am so grateful for Cool Koala. We began using it one week ago at bedtime. My son can get very anxious at bedtime and therefore can have a hard time settling to sleep. We have tried everything to help him. This is the first thing that has worked consistently. Not only did he settle and fall asleep by the end of the meditation and relaxation music, he has requested it to be the last thing we do every night since. I highly recommend this app!

Cool Koala is uncomplicated, with one meditation each night so you aren’t opening up the door for a long negotiation about which one to listen to. There is a brief intro with a helpful “what is meditation” explanation, getting your body comfortable and settled, a deep breath, but then goes right into a calm story that engages the senses to distract the brain from other anxieties and worries. I appreciate all the thoughtful details that went into this app.

Cool Koala is magical! The music is so soothing and the short, guided meditations are just perfect for children. We tell children to relax, be quiet, settle down, focus, but we rarely teach them how to do these things. Cool Koala guides them through how-to let go of worries, frustrations, and how to relax their bodies, in kid-friendly language and beautiful visualizations. Teaching children these skills when they are very young equips them with a powerful skill set for life!!

Discovered this tonight after a epic post-4th of July kinda day. The day with all the meltdowns and tantrums and kicking the floor and yelling at siblings and and and…

Needed a saving grace tonight and I found it. My 2nd grader loved it, and said “it didn’t put me to sleep, but it helped me calm down from a crazy day!” Darn near put her momma to sleep! And def helped me reset and refocus as well for a calmer end to my day. Kiddo is already asking for it tomorrow!