Quick Specs
- Title: Mindful Escapes Meditation Cards
- Author: Alison Davies
- Illustrator: Amy Grimes
- Publisher: Kaddo
- Contents: 55 cards plus access to 50 audio guided meditations
- Best for: Mindfulness practice, meditation prompts, stress relief, contemplative self-care
Meditation Cards by Amy Grimes: A Location-Based Mindfulness Deck
The Mindful Escapes Meditation Cards are built around a concept that sets them apart from any oracle or tarot deck: each of the 50 illustrated location cards depicts a specific healing place in the world, from Lourdes in France to Mount Shasta in California to landscapes across six continents. Writer Alison Davies pairs each location with a guided meditation text designed to transport the reader there in imagination. Illustrator Amy Grimes provides the visual anchor, with rich botanical and landscape illustrations that give each card a distinct sense of place and presence.
The deck includes five guidance cards that help users navigate the system. The four meditation categories are calm, energy, power, and nature, allowing the practitioner to choose a working mood before selecting a location. To use a card, you place it between the beginning and ending cards for that category and read the three texts in sequence, which opens and closes the guided meditation with the location imagery as its center. The deck also comes with access to 50 audio guided meditations, one for each location card, which can be played while looking at the illustration.
Mindfulness Meditation Cards vs. Oracle Decks: A Different Kind of Practice
These are not divination cards and should not be approached as such. Oracle decks and tarot are tools for reading symbols and interpreting messages. These meditation cards are tools for directed inner experience. You are not drawing a card to find out what it means about your situation. You are drawing a location to give your meditation session a destination and a quality. That distinction changes how you use the deck and what you get from it.
For practitioners who already work with tarot or oracle decks, this kind of meditation deck fills a different role in the toolkit, one that supports the quieting and focusing of the mind rather than the opening of it to symbolic interpretation. It is equally useful for practitioners who have no interest in divination but maintain a dedicated meditation or mindfulness practice. Browse my full tarot and divination collection to see how this fits alongside other card systems, and explore other tools in my chakra and meditation collection.
How to Use the Meditation Cards by Amy Grimes
Three methods for building a regular meditation practice with these location-based guided meditation cards.
- Choose a Mood Category
Identify which of the four moods fits your current need: calm for stress relief, energy for focus, power for clarity, or nature for grounding. Limiting the draw to one category gives the session a clear starting tone rather than a random quality.
- Draw a Location Card and Read the Sequence
Select a location card from your category. Place it between the beginning and ending guidance cards for that category and read the three texts in order. This structured sequence opens the meditation, takes you to the place, and closes the session.
- Use the Audio Meditations for Deeper Practice
Access the audio meditations that accompany the deck for a fully immersive session. Play the audio for your chosen location card while looking at the illustrated card. The narration guides you through the healing qualities of that specific place.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I stock these cards because the meditation practice community and the spiritual card community overlap more than most shops acknowledge. A practitioner who works with tarot every week may also maintain a daily meditation practice, and this deck gives that practice a card-based structure without turning it into divination. The production quality is excellent, Amy Grimes’s illustrations are specific and evocative rather than generic, and the audio access adds a dimension that makes this genuinely usable.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. These are guided meditation cards, not a divination tool. Each card depicts a world location paired with a meditation text. You use them to structure a session around a place and mood, not to receive symbolic readings about your situation.
The deck contains 55 cards: 50 illustrated location cards each paired with a guided meditation, plus five guidance cards organizing sessions by mood. The four categories are calm, energy, power, and nature. Audio guided meditations are included.
The text was written by Alison Davies, a UK-based author with a background in folklore and wellbeing. Amy Grimes is the illustrator, a London-based artist whose landscape and botanical work gives each location card a distinctive visual character.
The 50 location cards draw from healing places across six continents, including Lourdes in France and Mount Shasta in California alongside diverse natural landscapes worldwide. Each location was chosen for its restorative or powerful reputation.
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