Breathe and Be
Breathe and Be is a short and simple meditation podcast to help you slow down, breathe, and be, no pressure, no overthinking. Hosted by Maryann, each episode is a gentle pause in your day, giving you space to relax, reset, and find a little calm whenever you need it. New episodes are released every Tuesday and Saturday.
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Episodes
84 episodes
Rest Under The Tree
We guide a short breathing meditation that helps us settle into the body and trust the natural rhythm of the breath. We rest beneath an imagined spring tree and explore what it feels like to be supported without having to earn it.
A Guided Spring Meditation For Stress Relief
We guide a quiet breath-led meditation that helps us settle our bodies and trust the natural rhythm of breathing. We step into an early spring scene and use sound, scent, and imagery to practice letting go and allowing small growth to be real. ...
Back To Sleep
A low-effort meditation for those middle of the night wake ups.
Learn to Notice, Choose, and Let Go, Like a Crow
Your mind doesn’t need more pressure to “focus.” It needs permission to be selective. We’re guiding a calming, story-driven meditation that invites you to borrow the perspective of a crow, a creature known for intelligence, pattern recognition,...
A Gentle Check-In With Your Emotions
I apologize for not releasing an episode last week; recovering from an illness kept me away from my microphone for a few days. This short guided meditation offers a calm place to land and a simple way to reconnect with yourself. We ...
A Healing Pause
Waiting can feel like a trap: time slipping away, your mind itching to move. We slow that reflex down. I guide you into a quiet pause that most of us rush through, and we practice letting it support us instead of treating it like a failure of p...
The Greenhouse at the Edge of the Day
A tight chest, a crowded mind, and a day that won’t slow down can make even rest feel like work. We guide you into something simpler: a calm, sensory journey that helps your body exhale first, so your thoughts can follow. With slow breathing, r...
You Can Calm Your Mind Without Forcing Silence
Your mind can be loud and still be healthy. When thoughts race, most of us try to clamp down and force quiet, but that struggle often makes the noise feel even bigger. We take a different route: we let the mind settle by giving it something sim...
Rainy Evening Calm
Rainy evenings do something powerful if we let them: they make slowing down feel natural. I’m Mary Ann, and this Breathe and Be meditation is built for the moment when your day is winding down but your mind is still trying to keep going. With t...
Painting Over the Noise: A meditation for intrusive thoughts
A jolt of fear can land without warning: a violent image, a risky impulse, a thought that feels nothing like you. We take that moment and turn it into a practice, showing how intrusive thoughts are false alarms from a protective brain that love...
Finding Stillness In The Space Between Winter And Spring
When the world can’t decide between frost and thaw, our bodies often feel the same push and pull. We step into that tender in-between and offer a space to breathe without forcing, to notice without fixing, and to trust the quiet work happening ...
A Gentle Reset For Your Nervous System
We guide a gentle breath and grounding practice to help the nervous system settle and bring awareness back into the body. We end by returning to the room with simple cues and a reflective question on offering yourself kindness.
An Invitation To Hibernation: Finding Seasonal Ease And Quiet Strength
What if winter wasn’t a test to power through but a teacher nudging you to move at a kinder pace? We invite you into a guided “hibernation” practice—something between sleep and escape—designed to help you conserve energy, regulate your nervous ...
Winter Quiet In A Forgotten Village
In this episode, we take a slow walk through an abandoned winter village to let the breath and body soften, explore the peace of stillness, and practice honoring what we don’t need to carry. The journey through a silent clockmaker’s shop invite...
Find Calm In The Crunch Of Snow As We Breathe, Scan The Body, And Return To A Softer Pace
Cold air clears the mind, but only if we let it meet us where we are. We return from a nourishing pause to guide you through a quiet winter practice that trades urgency for presence. Together we build a slower rhythm—steady breath, soft shoulde...
Quiet Renewal
The season gets loud, expectations pile up, and our bodies quietly hold the weight. We wanted to create a small, steady refuge: a guided body scan that helps you slow down, soften the edges, and reconnect with your breath. Across twenty soothin...
Quiet November Field
We guide a quiet meditation set in a November field, using a scarecrow’s stillness, a crow’s companionship, and a distant bonfire to help the body soften and the mind settle. Breath slows, senses open, and we return with kindness and small move...
Autumn Quiet, Inner Warmth
We guide you through a story-meditation from a gray autumn road to a warm village square, where breath, color, and quiet company loosen hidden heaviness. The fox leads gently, the bonfire steadies, and you leave with a portable calm you can ret...
The Door To Deep Rest
This is a gentle meditation that leads from breath awareness to a personal doorway into deep rest, where guilt fades and permission to pause returns. The journey ends with a soft re-entry and a question that helps you carry calm back into your ...
A Season’s Quiet Wisdom
In this episode, we read Mary Cornelia Hartshorn’s 1927 parable of seasons and survival and pair it with a brief breath practice. The poem reframes loss as groundwork for renewal and invites two simple questions to guide the week.
Letting Go With The Rhythm Of The Season
We guide a slow, breath-led meditation set against a November rain, using the season’s pace to practice letting go with care. We move from sensory grounding to gentle release, then return with a single clear reflection to carry into the day.
Autumn Shadows, Quiet Magic
We pair the pulse of Shakespeare’s witches with a reading of Thomas Moore’s ballad, moving from playful spellcraft to a tender meditation on love, loss, and the images that carry us through darkness. We close by asking you to notice the memory ...
Experience A Quiet Return To Yourself Through Breath and Imagination
We guide a gentle meditation into an overgrown field and a silent carousel to help you set burdens down and meet stillness without forcing it. Breath, touch, and image anchor attention so calm can rise on its own and travel back with you into d...
Autumn’s Quiet Spell
We read George Parsons Lothrop’s “Incantation” and wander through autumn’s soft, eerie light to awaken the hidden rooms of imagination. We reflect on descent and return, the poise of neap tides, and how quiet rituals can turn fog into a teacher...
A Guided Pause for Body and Breath
We guide a gentle practice to name invisible weights, set them down with care, and let the body open to fuller breath and space. We close with a reflection to choose one thing to pause and a slow return to the room with lightness and ease.<...