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 3/25/21 Meryl Arnett 3/25/21

Our Elemental Nature {Earth}

Join me now for today’s discussion of the earth element, both external and internal, and then a 20-minute guided meditation practice.

Meryl Arnett 3/22/21 Meryl Arnett 3/22/21

Mini Meditation: The Coin Lost In The River

Today’s mini meditation is another sneak peak of the upcoming meditation app Shoreline. Today’s practice works with one of my favorite Zen koans from John Tarrant Roshi:

The coin that is lost in the river is found in the river.

Curious? Join me for today’s 10 minute meditation; the river soundscape you hear in the background was recorded by acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton.

Meryl Arnett 3/18/21 Meryl Arnett 3/18/21

Our Elemental Nature {Water}

Water. An essential ingredient of life; we know it in many forms - rivers and oceans, rainfall and mist, trickles, streams and tears.

Water teaches us of perseverance, inevitability and surprise.

Join me for today’s episode of The Mindful Minute as we follow this path through a brief dharma talk and 20-minute guided meditation.

Let go into flow.

Meryl Arnett 3/15/21 Meryl Arnett 3/15/21

Mini Meditation: Shoreline Preview {Campfire Embers}

Today’s mini meditation is another sneak peek within my soon-to-be-released meditation app: Shoreline! I’ll be releasing a longer episode later this month with all the details and background stories of this app, but in the meantime...

This meditation uses the sounds of campfire embers as recorded by acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton.

Enjoy!

Meryl Arnett 3/11/21 Meryl Arnett 3/11/21

Our Elemental Nature {Fire}

Join me for today’s episode of The Mindful Minute as we delve into the fire with a dharma talk and guided, 20-minute meditation practice.

Meryl Arnett 3/8/21 Meryl Arnett 3/8/21

Mini Meditation: Introducing Shoreline: My App!

Y’all! I am so thrilled to share with you a sneak peek into my labor of love: a new meditation app called Shoreline.

The app won’t be available for download for a few more weeks; in the meantime, every Monday, I will release a sneak peek meditation from the app starting with today’s practice: Swept Away By The Wind.

Meryl Arnett 3/4/21 Meryl Arnett 3/4/21

Our Elemental Nature {wind}

In this month’s meditation series, we will explore each of the four elements, starting with wind, and practicing a technique known as elemental purification. I hope you’ll join me!

Meryl Arnett 3/1/21 Meryl Arnett 3/1/21

Mini Meditation: The Web of Indebtedness

In my experience on the meditation cushion, the web of indebtedness is exactly what we innately become aware of as our meditation practice moves into deeper cycles. It begins as we enter into a reciprocal relationship with our meditation practice.

We give our time, energy and attention to our practice, and it responds to us with greater awareness, insight and warmth… The practice becomes sweeter because we give ourselves to it.

And eventually, this spills over into our everyday actions. Join me for today’s mini meditation practice and notice how it feels to consciously ‘give’ to your meditation 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.