Nature-Inspired Meditations

Feeling overwhelmed despite your best self-care practices?

You’re not alone. Anxiety, stress, and mental health struggles are at an all-time high — even for those of us in healing professions.

After teaching and practicing meditation for 15+ years, host Meryl Arnett shares the secret to deep, restorative and helpful meditation practices - nature-inspired meditation.

Meryl’s soothing guidance and high-quality nature soundscapes will help you to:

Cultivate a meditation practice that relieves stress and quiets the mind
Strengthen your resilience and compassion through mindful connection
Relax and reconnect deeply with immersive, nature-infused meditations

Tune in every Monday and Thursday for nature-inspired meditations designed to calm an overwhelmed mind, ease anxiety, and deepen your connection to yourself and the world around you.

Now, let’s grab a cup of tea, a comfy seat and settle in for today’s practice.

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Meryl Arnett 1/15/20 Meryl Arnett 1/15/20

Begin Again 2020 {Part 1 of 3}

This 3-part series is designed to help you start and maintain a daily meditation practice. It’s designed to help those who “can’t” meditate, those who tried once and quit, and those who are curious but don’t know what the heck to “do”…⁠

Meryl Arnett 1/12/20 Meryl Arnett 1/12/20

Mini Meditation: Expanding Our Compassion to Others

This mini meditation is a practice you can do right before bed each night. Walking back through your day to extend awareness and gratitude for all those {seen and unseen} that impact our day. Try it today and let me know how it impacts you!

Meryl Arnett 1/8/20 Meryl Arnett 1/8/20

Compassionate Mess

Well, y’all… I’m practicing what I preach today! If you’ve listened for awhile, you know that this podcast is usually a recording of my live Monday night meditation class, and, this Monday, I was supposed to kick-off the New Year with the start of my “Begin Again” meditation series…

Meryl Arnett 1/5/20 Meryl Arnett 1/5/20

Mini Meditation: To Taste is To Know

In many traditions, the greatest teachers are called Sages. Originally, sage was a verb – “to sage” and it meant to taste or to experience. Overtime, we’ve learned to place all our stock on one who has tasted when really the true work is to taste/experience for ourselves.

Meryl Arnett 1/1/20 Meryl Arnett 1/1/20

Pockets of Stillness

“In naming things we often come to mistake the names for the things themselves…” ~Maria Popova⁠

As part of the New Year traditions, many of us are anxious to reflect, to set intentions and goals, to pick a “word” of the year, to name what it is we most want…⁠

Meryl Arnett 12/29/19 Meryl Arnett 12/29/19

Mini Meditation: Marginalia

This week’s mini practice is a drop into spaciousness and then the prompt to journal immediately afterwards. For 5 – 10 minutes after your meditation practice, write everything you can think to write. Write about how your practice felt, what you thought about, how you feel right now, etc. Just keep going until the well is dry or the timer dings.

Meryl Arnett 12/25/19 Meryl Arnett 12/25/19

Savoring The Pause

This past weekend’s Winter Solstice felt particularly potent for me. Some years I reflect and teach on the dark. Some years I reflect and teach on the coming light. This year, I felt drawn to savor the pause in-between. ⁠

Meryl Arnett 12/22/19 Meryl Arnett 12/22/19

Mini Meditation: Free & Fun

In order to feel free, in order to experience FUN, we must be able to be with ourselves without fear of judgment, shame or recrimination. This is possible when we learn how to let our brain take a break from dominating the conversation and we let the body speak. This is possible when we pay enough attention to actually acknowledge how we feel. This is possible through our meditation practice. Join me today for this short practice!

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Since 2016, I have joyfully poured all my creative energy into the creation of this podcast. It has grown from an occasional meditation offering to a weekly show with interviews, book recommendations, guided practices and high-quality nature soundscapes. If these offerings support you and your meditation practice, please consider making a one-time or monthly donation to support the growth of this labor of love. If you can’t donate, please consider sharing this podcast with a friend or leaving a review wherever you listen to your podcasts.