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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Passion & Paychecks {part 2}

In this week's meditation, I continue to co-teach with my friend Tiffany Johnson.

We return to the idea of tapping into the steady space within - not only because of its steadiness but because of what it may be telling us about what we want, need, and feel in the present moment. Drawing upon the work of Dr. Laura Morgan Roberts, we begin talking about authenticity as a journey made up of acts or expressions that originate from the source. It is here - at the source - that we may begin to understand how to take the next best step, even when we feel uncertain. In doing so, we may also become aware of ways to creatively craft our environments - be they work, life, parenthood, community, or something at the intersections. In all, we affirm that life and work - just like authenticity - are big journeys made up of small moments. We affirm that our practice of mindfulness meditation- through present moment awareness - can help us be on these journeys, and take the next best step along the way.

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Mini Meditation: To Work is To Relate

Join my friend and colleague, Tiffany Johnson, as she guides us through a meditation designed to wake us up to our true Self and how we relate to ourselves both on the cushion and at work. 

This meditation is an excerpt from our April Meditation Series: Passion & Paychecks. The full class airs each Thursday on this podcast. 

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Passion & Paychecks {part 1}

Whew, y’all…. This meditation series is ALL THINGS WORK RELATED! This series developed out of a conversation with my regular Monday night crew - we were talking about some of the everyday struggles that come up at work, the tug to do something different, even feeling creatively stifled...⁠

And so, this series was born... Even more exciting, I’m co-teaching this series alongside a friend/student/colleague - Tiffany Johnson.


This series is for you if you:⁠

✔️ struggle with workplace stress⁠

✔️ aren't quite sure how to navigate the tension between your passion/s and your paycheck⁠

✔️ love elements of your job but hate the necessary tasks that accompany it⁠

Join Tiffany & me in today’s episode of The Mindful Minute as we discuss work, mindfulness, 4th spaces and how we relate.

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Mini Meditation: Elemental Connection

Today’s mini meditation is the Elemental Purification practice we did throughout last month’s meditation series: Our Elemental Nature. You can do this practice anytime you want to feel more connected to Earth, Nature and her elements. It is especially potent to do this practice outside, if you have the opportunity.

Enjoy!

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Gordon Hempton & The Opportunity of Now

Y’all... I have been waiting for almost a full year to share this episode with you! It has felt like the biggest, most exciting secret, and now I can finally share this joy with you!

As you know by now, I have been working tirelessly on a new meditation app called Shoreline, and one of my creative partners in this endeavour is acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton.

I sat down with Gordon a few weeks ago to talk about the Songs of Spring and what is really offered in the “opportunities of now” - let’s listen together.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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