EPISODE 6 — Coming Home to the Body

Lotus Pond Conversations with Michele Marie

There was a time I couldn’t move without pain.

Sixteen months of waiting for hip replacement surgery brought me face-to-face with parts of myself I had long bypassed.

Parts I couldn’t rush.

Parts I had to listen to.

In this episode, I share a tender reflection on that season of stillness—when the body became both my greatest teacher and my sacred homecoming.

You’ll also be guided through a gentle body scan meditation—an invitation to soften, observe, and return… without judgment.

This one is for anyone learning to feel safe in their body again.

Anyone healing.

Anyone remembering that presence doesn’t mean perfection—it just means staying.

“This body is not a burden.

It is a bridge.

It is not broken.

It is becoming.”

Join me in this sacred pause.

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Namaste' Beautiful Souls

In this sacred Mother’s Day offering, Michele Marie shares a poetic and powerful love letter to mothers in all forms—by birth, by bond, by choice.

Titled “To Be a Mother Is Not a Right: To Be a Mother Is a Privilege,” this episode is a tender invocation—a moment to pause and honor the unseen, the holy, the breathtakingly human work of motherhood.

With words wrapped in reverence, Michele explores the deep meaning of motherhood—not as entitlement, but as devotion. Not as a role, but as a becoming.

She weaves in the ancient roots of the word mother:

• In Hebrew, em (אם) means “strong water”—a force that nourishes and flows.
• In Latin, mater is the source of matter—the very substance of life.
• In Greek, mētēr (μήτηρ) speaks to origin—to bearing, to birthing, to beginning.

Whether through the womb or the heart, motherhood is a frequency—

a hum, a rhythm, a sacred invitation to love beyond yourself.

This is not just a tribute.

It’s a blessing.

A soft remembering.

A whispered “You are enough.”

This episode is a tender offering to the mothers—those who gave birth, those who raised, those who held space, and those who mother in spirit. It’s a love letter to the quiet sacrifices, the sacred resilience, and the unspoken grace of motherhood.

If this moved you, please share it with a mama you love—your own, a friend, a sister, or someone who simply carries the spirit of mothering. May it be a reminder:
You are seen. You are sacred. You are enough.

Breath to Breath

Petal to Petal

Heart to Heart

Happy Mother's Day Beautiful Souls,

Michele Marie

In this episode of The Lotus Pond Conversations, Michele Marie invites you into the quiet wisdom of the in-between. When we are not who we once were, and not yet who we’re becoming, we enter the sacred pause—a holy space of rest, reflection, and becoming. Through story, breath, and presence, this offering is a gentle reminder: stillness is not stagnation. It’s restoration. You are not broken. You are becoming.

Breath to Breath

Petal to Petal

Heart to Heart

Welcome, beautiful soul,
to another breath together at The Lotus Pond Conversations Podcast with Michele Marie.

In this episode, we explore the sacred truth behind the phrase:
“Where your attention goes, your energy flows.”

Through story, breath, and gentle reflection, Michele invites you to soften into the power of presence — how your focus becomes the soil from which your inner world blooms.

You’ll be guided through:
• What it means to reclaim your energy
• A tender breathwork invitation to return to yourself
• A remembering that attention is a sacred currency of becoming

You’ll hear:
“Inhale: I choose where my energy flows.
Exhale: I return to presence.”

Thank you for being here — not just with your ears, but with your whole heart.

Until next time...
Breath to breath,
Petal to petal,
Heart to heart.

In this deeply tender episode, Michele Marie invites you to soften into the truth that the body holds what the mind forgets.
She explores how emotion, memory, trauma, and grace live in the tissues of who we are — and how breath, stillness, and presence can gently bring us back to wholeness.
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure why something hurts… this conversation is for you.
Come sit at the pond.
Let yourself be remembered.

In this tender episode, we sit with the truth that many of us try to avoid —
the mud, the mess, the ache beneath our roots.

Through breath, story, and soft reflection, we remember:
the mud is not our failure... it’s our foundation.

You'll be guided through gentle reminders that your pain, your pause, and your past are all part of your becoming.
And you’ll leave with a breath practice to help you honor your own sacred blooming.

Inhale: I honor the mud.
Exhale: I honor the bloom.

Breath to breath.
Petal to petal.
Heart to heart.

— Michele Marie
Host of The Lotus Pond Conversations Podcast