
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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3 Journal Prompts to Calm Your Anxiety Through Nature-Inspired Meditation
In this final episode of the Wayfinding Meditation Series, we turn inward with three nature-rooted journal prompts designed to bring clarity, calm, and inner steadiness during uncertain times. Whether you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or just in need of stillness, these reflections are here to guide you.
🌿 Take 10 mindful minutes today and let Nature and Meditation help you move through Anxiety with more grace—press play now.
How Ritual, Nature and Meditation Help Transform Overwhelm Into Resilience During a Time of Global Anxiety
Are you using meditation to manage anxiety, but still feel disconnected or overwhelmed?
This conversation with artist and ritualist Day explores how meditation alone may not be enough to meet the intensity of our mental health needs — especially during major life transitions. Learn how ritual, connection to nature, and intentional rest can support emotional resilience in ways meditation can’t always reach.
15 min Guided Meditation | Summer Solstice Finding Stillness in the Forest
Just the meditation
The Summer Solstice is a stillpoint - a moment that begs you to pause, to feel your feet on the earth, and restablish where you are going.
Take a breath, settle onto a soft patch of moss (real or metaphorical), and listen now to reconnect with your calm center.
Summer Solstice: A Still Point for Meditation, Nature, and Anxiety Relief
Are you constantly searching for clarity in the middle of emotional chaos?
When anxiety floods your mind and the pressure to “keep going” feels overwhelming, stillness might feel like the last thing you need—but it’s exactly what this nature-inspired meditation practice offers.
Take a breath, find your moss, and listen now to reconnect with your calm center.
5 Minute Guided Meditation | Breathe Here: A Meditation for Living in a Broken World
Feel like the world is unraveling right now?
In this episode, we offer a lifeline.
The SOS Calm meditation is one of the most immediate ways to return to yourself amidst the chaos. It’s not about tuning out the heartbreak, but about remembering how to breathe inside it. How to stay grounded so that we can keep showing up.
Take five minutes for yourself—your mental health deserves it.
A Strawberry Full Moon Meditation to Restore Calm & Connection When Anxiety Peaks
What if simply gazing at the moon could help you calm your anxiety?
In this gentle yet grounding meditation aligned with June’s Strawberry Moon, you'll be guided to connect with the natural world around you and slow your breath—helping you release mental overwhelm and foster inner resilience.
Guided Nature Meditation: Wayfinding To Calm Anxiety
✨ Just The Meditation ✨
This episode offers a guided meditation inviting you to reconnect with nature’s rhythms — from moss lines to constellations — to ground your nervous system and deepen your meditation practice.
The Nature-Based Meditation Practice That Reconnects You When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed
What if the solution to your overwhelm has been outside all along?
When anxiety surges and modern tools fall short, your body and breath might not be the only things guiding you. This episode explores how reconnecting with nature’s rhythms — from moss lines to constellations — can ground your nervous system and deepen your meditation practice.
Listen now to rediscover peace in the overwhelm — and your own power to navigate it.
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