The Sims 4 Zen Guru Aspiration
Does your sim want to share wellness with the world? Then try out the sims 4 Zen Guru aspiration!
This aspiration was added at the time of the refresh of The Sims 4: Spa Day and is a welcome addition.
Your sim will need to become a master wellness teacher, which can take some time but you’ll love it!
Spa Membership Bonus Trait
When a sim plays through any of the wellness aspirations like this one (or the self-care specialist aspiration) they’ll be given the spa membership trait.
This trait’s description says “These sims somehow came into possession of Spa Membership. Nobody is really sure where it came from, how to cancel it, or who keeps paying for it each month. But one thing is for certain all fees at Spas are waived! Nice!”
Having this trait means that your sim can go into any spa and get any treatment 100% for free!
Best Traits for The Sims 4 Zen Guru Aspiration
You should always consider your sim’s traits and how they can help with their aspiration. Here’s some that can help!
- Outgoing: A lot of this aspiration is about spending time with others from guiding them to comforting them so you want your sim to be able to enjoy chatting with other sims.
- Cheerful: Sims who are cheerful are going to spend more time being happy, which is helpful for getting anything done.
- High Maintenance: This trait comes with Spa day and can be a bit annoying. It makes your sim need more work to keep them happy, but when they do lots of mindful habits they can enter catharsis.
Aspiration Tasks
The Sims 4 Zen Guru Aspiration only has one level with four tasks to complete! This means it’s quicker than some aspirations and you’ll be able to get the calming aura bonus trait more quickly.
- Comfort Others
For this part of the aspiration your sim needs to do 20 social interactions with other sims and you have two options. The first option is to do any wellness socials which are denoted with a little Zen rock garden next to the social. You’ll see options like:
- Offer Mental Relaxation Tips
- Discuss Cognitive Focusing Methods
- Recommend Self Esteem Exercises
You’ll end up with more options when you have a higher level of the wellness skill. You can find a lot of these interactions under friendly > hobbies.
Your other option is to do comforting interactions when a sim is in a bad mood.
For example, you’ll see the option to try and cheer up a sim who is feeling sad or try to calm down when they’re feeling angry.
You’ll just need to do either of these two types of social interactions twenty total times.
- Guide Others
A true Zen Guru needs to teach all sorts of wellness to other sims. You have a few options for this including teaching yoga classes, teaching guided meditation or giving massages.
To teach a yoga class you’ll need to have an area prepared for it. You’ll first need an instructor’s yoga mat surrounded by regular ones for your students to use. Then you can click on the instructor mat and choose to teach a class and pick which type of class in that menu.
You’ll do the same thing for meditation, except all you need is one meditation stool. You can click on it and host a guided meditation class for the public.
Finally, you can offer massages or go ahead and tend a massage table to give massages!
- Share Detox Tea
For this part of the aspiration you’ll need the Tea Magic Personal Brewer and level 10 of the wellness skill.
At level 10 your sim will unlock the recipe for Lemon Honey Ginger Detox Tea that your sim can brew. You’ll brew it and then wait for other sims to grab a cup, which happened automatically for may sims in my household.
You can even choose to brew it at a spa and customers may grab it! This is usually faster than at home because there are more sims who are able to grab it.
- Become a Master Wellness Teacher
To finish this aspiration you’ll need to have your sim lead a guided meditation or teach a yoga class where one of the people in the class has level 10 of the wellness skill.
Unfortunately, I was never able to make this happen organically so I cheated (oops). I used testingcheats true and then shift clicked on sims to add them to my household and then gave them level 10 of the wellness skill then removed them from my household. Then, I started a yoga class and one of them joined!
I just don’t think enough sims have high levels of this specific skill for this to be easy to do, but there are ways to cheat it!
Calming Aura Reward Trait
When your sim manages to finish the sims 4 zen guru aspiration they’ll be given the calming aura reward trait. This trait’s description says “When Sims master wellness it will allow them to emanate a soothing glow! Use this newfound ability to calm sims around you and well, to look awesome!”
