The outdoor walk you
can take at your desk.™
Not another voice telling you to breathe.
Most guided meditation assumes you need to be talked through relaxation. Count your breaths. Scan your body. Release your thoughts. It works for some people. It never worked for us.
What worked was being outside.
Not hiking for exercise or walking to clear your head — though those help too. Something more specific. The way a dark trail at night forces you to pay attention. The way standing alone in an open field in winter makes your senses expand without being told to. The way rain on a ridgeline pulls you out of your head and into exactly where you are.
That shift, from trying to be present to simply being present because the place demands it, is what Into the Quiet Wilds is built around.
Our purpose
Into the Quiet Wilds is a podcast of guided meditations, each one set in a specific natural landscape. Not nature sounds played over studio voiceover. These are meditations designed around real places — their terrain, their weather, their atmosphere — so the environment does most of the work.
Each episode is its own experience. A winter field meditation works differently than a forest at night, which works differently than open water. The landscape shapes the practice, not the other way around.
The collection grows slowly. Every episode is built to be returned to.
Our listeners
This is for people who've always been a little suspicious of meditation. Not the idea of it, but the packaging. The pastel apps. The whispery voices. The feeling that you're doing someone else's version of stillness instead of your own.
It's for people who think more clearly after twenty minutes outside than after twenty minutes with their eyes closed. People who don't need to be told to relax. They need something real to focus on.
If your version of mental clarity has always looked more like a long walk than a seated practice, this was built with you in mind.
Get in Touch
Questions or thoughts? Reach out and share your quiet moments with us.
intothequietwilds@gmail.com