The Calming Ground Podcast

What if the thing you're struggling to let go of right now is something this season is asking of you? In this solo episode, host Elizabeth Mintun explores the seasonal pull toward letting go that so many people feel...

There is a scientific debate that's been quietly unfolding for nearly 20 years: researchers have published findings questioning some of the biological claims behind polyvagal theory, the framework that has shaped how...

A circle of strangers, no rehearsal, no sheet music…Just voices and a guide named Porangui pulling a room of near-strangers into one shared rhythm.  In this solo episode, host Elizabeth Mintun reflects on three...

Last week, Dolly Parton died. A glacier collapse triggered catastrophic flooding in Nepal. An Ebola outbreak became the deadliest in the Democratic Republic of Congo's history. If you've felt oddly numb to some of the...

Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has written and sent out a poem every single day for decades. These are first drafts, no editing, no safety net. In this conversation, she shares what that practice has taught her about...

We rush toward finished frameworks and polished programs without ever seeing what shaped them. This episode pulls back the curtain on how nature became the language for nervous system work, long before it had a name. In...

We rush past thresholds constantly - the small daily ones and the big life-chapter ones. This episode is about what it costs to leave transitions unmarked, and what changes when we honor our transitions. In this...

What do you do when a place that’s held twenty years of your life history is about to be sold? You bury a shell in the sand and say good bye imperfectly, with sand still stuck between your fingers.  In this...

She held two things dear: the privilege of making mistakes, and the right to be a “damn fool”. This episode is a re-air of a conversation between host Elizabeth Mintun and her mother, Margy, who died in January of 2025...

What if not knowing is a doorway? In this episode, host Elizabeth Mintun sits down with Dr. Chanti Tacoronte Pérez, a creative guide, teacher, and depth-oriented artist whose work weaves together rest, image-making...

What if healing is about coming home to the wholeness of who you are? In this episode, host Elizabeth Mintun sits down with LeNaya Smith Crawford, The Holistic Therapist™ - a licensed therapist, holistic mental health...

It's 2pm, you've read the same email three times, and you're reaching for another coffee. What if that afternoon fog is actually one of the most reliable signals your body sends all day? In this episode, your host...

What if the spaces in between - the breath before the inhale, the dusk before the dark - hold more wisdom than anything we're chasing?  In this episode, yoga nidra teacher and bestselling author Tracee Stanley...

You know it's time. The relationship, the self-talk, the job… maybe you've known for a while. And still, you haven't moved. In this episode, host Elizabeth Mintun explores the question that's been showing up in client...

What if there was ancient wisdom that might be able to help us during the season of summer?  In this solo episode, host Elizabeth Mintun explores the fire element from qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine and...