
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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Wake Up with Gratitude: Morning Meditation from Maui
What if you could start your day feeling grounded, grateful, and clear-minded—without the noise and distractions?
In this peaceful guided meditation, you’ll be immersed in the sounds of a Maui sunrise, setting the tone for a day filled with intention and gratitude. No chatter, no clutter—just a mindful practice designed to help you cultivate calm, connection, and resilience from the moment you wake up.
Morning Meditation: From Cushion to Daily Life | Guided Practice & Tips
This week, we explore how to weave mindfulness through our entire day, starting with a gentle morning practice that sets our intentions and opens our hearts to daily gifts.
We’ll share in a gentle morning practice that helps us set our day’s intention that really means something to you.
The Call of the Woodpecker: A Nature-Guided Meditation
This week, we explore how the woodpecker's drumming can guide us in releasing emotional armor and deepening our connection with the natural world.
What You'll Experience:
- A guided meditation synced with the woodpecker's natural drumming pattern
- Gentle body scanning and breath awareness practice
- An invitation to let nature's rhythms soften our emotional armor
Ocean Meditation: Exploring Dreams, Oracle cards and Heartful Subconscious
In this final episode of our heartfulness series, we’re diving below the surface of mindfulness into the rich, uncharted waters of the subconscious. While mindfulness often focuses on our conscious, waking mind, heartfulness invites us to explore the deeper layers of our being — the parts of us that dwell in dreams, intuition, and quiet knowing.
Slip on your headphones, drift into the dreamy soundscape, and let’s explore the heartful depths together.
Intention & Attention: Nature-based Meditation for Heartfulness
This week, we’re continuing our heartfulness series by stepping off the meditation cushion and into the great outdoors.
Put on your headphones, step outside, and join us as we explore heartfulness in nature. Let’s see what this moment has to offer.
New Year's Day Intention & Guided Meditation: Heartfulness, A Softer Path in 2025
Let’s start the year by diving into a fresh, gentler perspective on mindfulness — or should we say, heartfulness?
In this episode, I share a thought that’s been swirling in my mind: what if we reframed our practice?
At the end, you will experience a longer, guided meditation that takes you through a reflection of the year and an inquiry into what is to come next in 2025.
Winter Solstice Guided Meditation; Live Retreat Recording
Today’s episode of Our Mindful Nature - a live recording of my Winter Solstice meditation retreat - is the perfect practice to welcome in the winter season.
In this class, you will hear some of the mythology surrounding the Winter Solstice. We will explore what it means to ‘harvest the fire’ in this season; we will talk about caves, bees, fire and honey.
At the end, you will experience a longer, guided meditation that takes you through a reflection of the year and an inquiry into what is to come next in 2025.
Winter Sleep Meditation: Held in the Womb of the Earth
This episode is an invitation to get cozy, to set aside your to-do list for a few moments, and rest.
And listeners, I have to tell you today’s episode has my FAVORITE soundscape of the year.
So grab a blanket and a cup of tea, pop-in your headphones, and join me for today’s winter-time sleep meditation.
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