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Earthly Grounded

Earthly Grounded is a meditation app that focuses on user wellbeing and their connection with nature. Unlike other meditation apps, Earthly Grounded aims to promote vitality and mindfulness by encouraging users to get outside, go for walks in their local neighbourhood, hikes in national parks, or to embrace nature and mindfulness within their homes.

Wilhelmina Martens

Overview

Earthly Grounded is a meditation app that focuses on user wellbeing and building their connection with nature. The concept is designed to encourage users to get outside, go for walks in their local neighbourhood, hikes in national parks, or to embrace nature and mindfulness within their homes. Unlike other meditation apps, Earthly Grounded aims to promote vitality and mindfulness through forming connections with nature via meditation practices.

The user can select various audio recordings to listen to that can help them relax, feel more grounded and connect with the environment they are in. These audio recordings include meditation, poetry, nature sounds, and indigenous stories or educational podcasts for local environments.

These recordings come in various lengths and with different target goals. In addition, the app showcases common health features such as being able to track steps and distance per walk and features a daily diary where the users can record their mood for the day prior to and after a meditation session.

As users may generally go on walks or hikes with others, the app can connect with others so they can listen to audio recordings simultaneously, allowing for a shared user experience.

Earthly Grounded encourages users to ensure their time outdoors is disconnected from the online world, giving them time to reflect on the physical world around them and themselves. It promotes the exploration of nature within the local community or outer regions, resulting in users who can reap the health benefits of being surrounded by nature, whether they actively know it or not.

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Wilhelmina Martens

Wilhelmina is a designer and photographer based in Brisbane. She aims to be a designer that offers creative problem solving through inclusivity, sustainability and accessibility. She artistically strives to integrate her passion for both design and photography by incorporating mixed media and her love for other creative outlets such as film and illustration into her body of work.