Calm With Me

Calm With Me blends neuroscience, yoga, adventure, and storytelling to explore how we build calm in real life, not in perfect conditions.Hosted by neuroscientist and yoga teacher Dr. Meredith Calvert, the podcast weaves together science-backed insight, nervous system tools, and stories from the trail, the ocean, and everyday life to help listeners navigate stress, uncertainty, burnout, and change with more steadiness and ease.Part science podcast, part reflective companion, Calm With Me is for anyone craving a slower nervous system, a fuller life, and a little more wonder along the way.

Calm With Me is a health podcast hosted by Dr. Meredith Calvert, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Dr. Meredith Calvert hosts Calm With Me, a health show with 16 episodes published.

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  Episode #4

  Why We Go Outside to Find Ourselves

  Aug 6, 202615 minS2

  Adventure used to mean conquest. Not anymore. In this episode of Calm With Me, Dr. Meredith Calvert traces a shift happening across diving, surfing, and rock climbing: the fastest-growing group of participants isn't chasing adrenaline, but a quieter, deeper connection with themselves. Drawing on her forthcoming Scuba Diving Industry magazine article, Meredith explores the neuroscience behind why the wild calms us, including Blue Mind, soft fascination, and the default mode network, and how these effortless attention states let our overstimulated brains finally quiet down. Featuring insights from Bethany Hamilton, Kelly Slater, Lynn Hill, and dive shop owner Brent Webb, this episode asks what happens when fear becomes the doorway to growth rather than the obstacle to it. Meredith also unpacks a stubborn gap: participation among women is surging in these sports, yet leadership and instruction remain overwhelmingly male. Plus: the 2027 WildCalm Retreats waitlist is now open - sign up using the link below. Calm With Me is hosted by Dr. Meredith Calvert: neuroscientist, yogi, Master Scuba Diver, and devoted student of the wild mind. Mentioned in this episode: The WildCalm retreats waitlist for 2027 is now open. All WildCalm retreats are small by design, and I expect them to fill quickly. If any of these is calling to you, joining now means you'll hear from me first. [Join the private waitlist] No commitment or payment yet, just your place in line. Immersive experiences designed to help you slow down, breathe more deeply, and reconnect with yourself, through movement, breath, and nature. Find out more: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ WildCalm Retreats⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow me on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@meriyogasf ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Time Stamps: 01:10 - How self-development and wellness travel is changing dive tourism 01:50 - Soccer moms on scuba 02:50 - How adventure changes us 03:35 - E.E. Cummings and finding ourselves in the sea 03:50 - Blue Mind 04:15 - Soft fascination 04:50 - Evolution of sensory awareness 05:35 - Why being outside helps stop overthinking 05:50 - Scuba diving for personal growth 06:35 - Changes in the surfing industry 07:10 - Bethany Hamilton and passion bigger than fear 07:50 - Kelly Slater and surfing as religion 08:25 - Lynn Hill and climbing as moving meditation 08:50 - We don't come to conquer 09:15 - Changes in the climbing gym 09:30 - Yoga for rock climbing 10:10 - Female participation in rock climbing 10:30 - Women still missing in leadership roles - climbing 11:05 - Women still missing in leadership roles - diving 11:40 - What links climbing, surfing and diving? 12:10 - Adventure sports are good for our brains 13:05 - Philosophy of WildCalm retreats 13:50 - WildCalm retreats 2027 waitlist now open References: The Rise of the Wellness Diver: A Changing Audience. Scuba Diving Industry Magazine, July 2026. Calvert, M. (2026). Why Yoga Makes You a Better Scuba Diver. DiveNewsWire, May 2026. Nichols, W. J. (2014). Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do. Murrin, E., Taylor, N., et al., (2023). Does physical activity mediate the associations between blue space and mental health? A cross-sectional study in Australia. BMC Public Health, 23. Basu, A., Duvall, J., & Kaplan, R. (2019). Attention Restoration Theory: Exploring the role of soft fascination and Mental Bandwidth. Environment and Behavior, 51(8), 956-981. McDonnell, A.S., Strayer, D.L., (2024). Immersion in nature enhances neural indices of executive attention. Sci Rep 14, 1845. Shifting Tides: Dive Industry Assessment & Strategies to Serve Today’s Scuba Divers. Business of Diving Institute. https://www.businessofdiving.com/scuba-analysis-strategy-planning https://www.businessofdiving.com/scuba-diver-socio-demographic-profile

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  Episode #3

  Your Wild Mind: From Fear to Flow in the Great Outdoors

  Jun 27, 202614 minS2

  You're mid-route. Your foot slips. Before your rational brain catches up, something ancient takes over and your heart is hammering, your breath has gone short and shallow and your hands are gripping harder than they should. Fear in the outdoors is fast, physical, and deeply intelligent. And if you know how to work with it, it's one of the most powerful entry points to presence you'll ever find. In this episode, neuroscientist, diver and yoga teacher Dr. Meredith Calvert breaks down the three F's of outdoor performance: fear, focus, and flow. She explains what's actually happening in your brain on a crux, why panicking makes you breathe in exactly the wrong way, and how natural environments both challenge us and restore the cognitive resources that modern life burns through. The science is real. The tools are portable. Calm With Me is hosted by Dr. Meredith Calvert — neuroscientist, yogi, Master Scuba Diver, and devoted student of the wild mind. Mentioned in this episode: Come with me to find your own Wild Mind? I built my WildCalm retreats around exactly this. Immersive experiences designed to help you slow down, breathe more deeply, and reconnect with yourself, through movement, breath, and nature. Next adventure? SeaCalm Yoga & Scuba Diving in Roatán, Honduras, this Labor Day (2026). No yoga or scuba experience needed. Just curiosity, and a willingness to let the ocean do what it does best. Find out more: ⁠⁠⁠https://meriyoga.org/seacalm2026⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠WildCalm Retreats⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow me on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@meriyogasf ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Time Stamps: 01:20 - Calm is a super power 01:40 - Three brain structures involved with fear 01:50 - The amygdala- your alarm center 02:15 - The prefrontal cortex - your logic center 02:50 - The hippocampus - your memory vault 03:20 - Inhibitory learning 03:40 - Introduction to box breathing 04:00 - Practice: Box breathing 04:30 - Panic and your breath 04:55 - The Bohr effect 05:20 - The CO2 spike or hypercapnia 06:00 - Auto-occlusion 07:15 - Introduction to reflexive breathing 07:30 - Practice: Reflexive breathing 08:00 - Focus and attention restoration theory 08:30 - Directed attention 08:55 - Involuntary attention 09:30 - Soft fascination 10:25 - Finding flow 10:55 - Flow and the vagus nerve 11:30 - Heart rate variability 11:50 - Anchor practice for flow: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 13:00 - Fear is not a design flaw Scientific references: • Kaplan, S. The restorative benefits of nature: Toward an integrative framework, J. Env. Psych. 1995. 15(3):169-182 • Pham TP & Sanocki T. Human Attention Restoration, Flow, and Creativity: A Conceptual Integration. J Imaging. 2024 Mar 29;10(4):83 • McDonnell, A.S., Strayer, D.L. Immersion in nature enhances neural indices of executive attention. Sci Rep 14, 1845 (2024) • Williams, KJH, Lee, KE, Hartig, T., et al. Conceptualising creativity benefits of nature experience: Attention restoration and mind wandering as complementary processes, J. Exp. Psych. 2018 (59), 36-45, • Colzato, LS., Szapora A, Hommel, B. Meditate to Create: The Impact of Focused-Attention and Open-Monitoring Training on Convergent and Divergent Thinking. Front. Psych. 2012, 3. • Lippelt DP, Hommel B, Colzato LS. Focused attention, open monitoring a n d loving kindness meditation: effects on attention, conflict monitoring, and creativity - A review. Front Psychol. 2014 S e p 23;5:1083.

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  Episode #2

  Beneath the Surface: Neuroscience, Breath & the Wild Within

  May 30, 202610 minS2

  <p>Last episode, we explored Blue Mind — what water does to your brain from the outside. Today we go deeper. Literally.</p><p>In this episode, Dr. Meredith Calvert unpacks the neuroscience of what happens when you actually go underwater: the ancient mammalian dive reflex that slows your heart without asking permission, the breath-buoyancy feedback loop that makes scuba diving one of the most intimate nervous system practices on the planet, and why the underwater environment produces a quality of presence that's hard to find anywhere else.</p><p>We'll also do a short box breathing practice together — so you can...

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  Episode #1

  Blue Mind: Your Brain on Water

  May 14, 20266 minS2

  <p>Season two of Calm With Me begins at the water’s edge. In this episode, neuroscientist, yoga teacher, and scuba diver Dr. Meredith Calvert explores the science behind “Blue Mind,” the deeply restorative state our brains enter around water. From childhood memories of England’s rugged coastline to the neuroscience of soft fascination, dopamine, serotonin, and nervous system regulation, this episode dives into why the ocean has such a profound ability to quiet the mind and bring us back to ourselves.</p><p>You’ll learn how blue spaces influence stress, attention, and emotional well-being, and why calm may be less ab...

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  Episode #12

  The Perimenopausal Brain: Part Two - Coming Up For Air

  Mar 11, 202625 minS1

  <p>In this episode of Calm With Me, Meredith returns to the topic of the perimenopausal brain, exploring not just the physical symptoms but the deeper shift in identity that many women experience during this transition.</p><p>Perimenopause often begins gradually, with mood changes, sleep disruption, anxiety, and physical symptoms appearing years before menstrual cycles noticeably change. Without clear information, these changes can slowly erode confidence and leave many women feeling like strangers in their own bodies. Neuroscience shows that these experiences are rooted in real biological changes as the brain adapts to declining estrogen, reorganizing systems involved in...

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