COURSE

Learning To Let Go And Let Be

Learning to Let Go and Let Be is a gentle journey of softening — of quieting the mind, releasing tension, and returning to the truth that peace has always lived within you. Through four deep listening lessons and guided meditations— Letting In, Letting Go, Release, and Letting Be — you’ll explore the art of undoing the holding on. Each session blends mindful teaching, soothing NSDR-style meditation, yoga nidra and reflective inquiry to help you meet life with less resistance and more ease. This is not a course in doing. It’s a course in allowing — a reminder that peace isn’t found through control, but through your willingness to be present, open, and free in the space between.

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Meet your Teacher

Shauna Laubman | The Pause Studio

Calgary, AB, Canada

Shauna Laubman is a teacher, yoga and meditation guide, and the founder of Midlife Wellness. With over a decade of experience leading people through movement, mindfulness, and nervous system regulation, she blends personal storytelling with practical practices to help others find calm, clarity, and wholeness. Her work is rooted in compassion and her own midlife journey, offering a gentle invitation to pause, soften, and return to the wisdom within.

4 Days

2.1k students

4.9 stars

24 min / day

Acceptance

English

Lesson 1

Letting In: Meeting Yourself Where You Are

When life feels heavy or overwhelming, our instinct is often to push away or tighten against what we’re feeling. In this practice, we do the opposite. We soften. We breathe. We meet ourselves exactly as we are. Through gentle breath and awareness, you’ll explore what it means to simply let in your experience — not to fix, change, or analyze, but to allow what’s here to be here. This is where peace begins: not in control, but in presence. Journal Prompts for this Lesson: • When I allow myself to truly let in this moment — the sensations, emotions, and truths that arise — what do I notice softening within me? • What does this reveal about the kind of peace that doesn’t come from managing or achieving, but from simply being with myself? I can’t wait to hear your reflections in the comments — that’s where our connection and conversation continue.

Lesson 2

Letting Go: The Act Of Surrender

There comes a point when holding on becomes heavier than what we’re holding. In this practice, we lean into softness instead of strain. Through breath and presence, you’ll be guided to release the tightness of control, reconnect with your inner trust, and rest in the natural flow that has always been here to support you. Letting go is not giving up. It’s remembering that peace arrives when we stop resisting what is. Journal Prompt for this Lesson: • When I soften my need to control and allow life to unfold, what begins to shift within me — in my body, my breath, and my trust in the unseen flow of things? I can’t wait to hear your reflections in the comments — that’s where we continue this journey together.

Lesson 3

Release: The Gentle Unraveling

After we let in what is true and loosen our grip on what we’ve been carrying, we often enter a tender in-between space — a place where the old is falling away, but the new has not yet taken form. This lesson invites you to rest there with compassion rather than fear. Through gentle guidance and meditation, you’ll learn to trust the unraveling as part of your healing. Sometimes release feels like we are coming undone, but in reality, it is a soft return to yourself. A quiet exhale back into wholeness. Journal Prompts for this Lesson: • When I stop trying to manage life and allow myself to be held by it, what changes within me? • What does peace feel like when I no longer have to earn it? I can’t wait to hear your reflections in the comments — that’s where our conversation continues and integration deepens.

Lesson 4

Letting Be: Living From Inner Freedom

This final lesson is an invitation to rest in the simple grace of being. After the tender work of letting in, letting go, and unraveling, you arrive in the quiet space beneath it all — the place where peace isn’t something to chase, but something already here to remember. Through guided reflection and meditation, you’ll explore how to live from presence instead of effort, and how to trust that life is holding you, even when you’re not holding everything together. Journal Prompts for this Lesson: • Where in my life am I being invited to stop striving and simply let things be as they are? • What might open for me if I trusted that peace doesn’t depend on fixing, but on allowing? I can’t wait to hear your reflections in the comments — that’s where we continue and deepen together.

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Recent Reviews

Philip

May 15, 2026

Let it in, Let it go, Let it be! This one’s worth practicing! Thank you for your guidance!

Betsy

May 13, 2026

I found this course to be very helpful in my continuing effort to go with the flow rather than trying to force the universe to bend to my will. It’s a journey I will take every day. Thank you!

Olivia

May 10, 2026

Very powerful course! Helped me soften into my life and current circumstances. 🙏

Catherine

April 29, 2026

So helpful. Thank you. Wonderful body scan in the final lesson. Will be a soothing tool!

Simon

April 26, 2026

This was a deeply thoughtful and moving course. Thank you 😊🙏

Mike

April 24, 2026

A vary timely course! The last few years have been a struggle on many levels. I need to release my grip on past setbacks so that I can move forward with some sense of optimism. If I can’t let go of the past then it becomes my story, I am chained to it and martyred by it. Letting go is a process and not an event. Thank you! 🙏🏼 😊

Jackie

April 23, 2026

In this time of chaos and uncertainty, suffering and polarization, it is a constant practice to let be, find peace within and pay attention to the beauty I am surrounded by. Yet that must be my practice. Thank you for this. Your words were comforting and really good reminders. 🙏💙

Karen

April 21, 2026

Beautiful, thank you 🩷

Patricia

April 20, 2026

Absolutely resonated 🙏

Debra

April 19, 2026

I am learning to release control over things that I cannot control. This course helped me move through a difficult time in my life with more ease. Thank you Shauna ❤️🙏🏼

Alison

April 19, 2026

Thank you. 🙏💕 A beautiful course, explained with clarity, to guide me through returning to peace while navigating challenging times. 💐

Mark

April 14, 2026

I am grateful for these lessons and experiences you have presented. The time to thoroughly explore and experience our being human was deeply appreciated.

Andrew

April 12, 2026

Wow. Try it. You’ll see😁🫶

Lynann

April 11, 2026

I loved this!

Anthony

April 11, 2026

I can’t thank you enough or describe how much this has impacted me. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

Sara

April 9, 2026

Wow!! SLOW CLAP!! That was truly amazing! I am excited to listen again. So many good nuggets.

Kate

April 8, 2026

So beautiful! I really enjoyed your profound message as well as the amount of stillness in each session. Thank you so much!

Mindy

April 8, 2026

Thank you for this beautiful course and for sharing your personal experience doing the same. I’m learning to listen to my body, heart and soul and slow down as I continue healing my nervous system survival response with my complex ptsd. A very timely resource that I will return to for sure. Deep gratitude.

Arianna

April 6, 2026

Truly special- thank you ❤️

angus

April 5, 2026

Shauna - thank you, beautiful course!

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