Join our New Year’s Mindfulness Challenge
15 Days: January 4th through the 18th
“Everything has a beginning, a middle and an end… followed by a new beginning.”
Join me for an easy and accessible way of bringing more presence and intention into the New Year. During this 15 day challenge, you will deepen your understanding of the practice as we explore the foundations of mindfulness through the body, mind and heart. Through this process of learning, unlearning, and relearning together, you will create a fresh and new perspective for 2021.
The challenge will include:
1) Daily practices and meditation reflections emailed directly to your inbox as a way of consistently deepening your own practice. These emails are short, sweet, and inspirational; ready to be put into use each day.
2) Three online workshops (via Zoom) from 6 to 7:30pm PST each Monday of the challenge:
January 4th: the foundation of the body
January 11th: the foundation of the mind
January 18th: the foundations of the heart
3) Access to prerecorded meditations, optional writing prompts along with other resources to help you feel supported as we move through our time together.
This challenge has been designed to strengthen your mindfulness muscle in an accessible way… a little each day as we learn more about presence and ourselves. Together we will remember what matters most as we allow our body, mind, and heart to rest in one space.
$60 for the challenge
All levels welcome and no one turned away for lack of funds
Workshop Details:
Foundations of the body
Session 1: January 4th 6-7:30pm
PST
What is mindfulness anyways? We will answer this question and look at mindfulness through the first foundation: the body. Connecting with our bodies rather than just living in our heads is the first step towards being more present with our embodied and direct experience.
Foundations of the mind
Session 2: January 11th 6-7:30pm PST
Continuing on the journey of presence through the exploration of the mind; by bringing awareness to our mental states, habits and thoughts while learning how to navigate this terrain in a more skillful and helpful way.
Foundations of the heart
Session 3: January 18th 6-7:30pm PST
Our last session will we explore the various heart practices. Often in the West, we forget the importance of the heart, a necessary and integral piece of the practice as we consider the impact of the benevolent qualities in our lives. We will close out our time together with a sweet intention setting practice for 2021!
Sample Daily Reflections and Challenges:
“What we practice only grows stronger .“
It is often said mindfulness is a way of being in the world, a training of the mind to look inward for happiness. This training is made accessible by practicing short moments, many times throughout our days. The daily emails of reflections and challenges will offer you the opportunity to build your mindfulness muscle in an accessible and doable way, feeling the impact grow throughout our time together. Here are a few sample practices and reflections:
The practice: one breath at a time
Breathing brings us home as the body and mind can rest together in the breath. As soon as we become aware of breathing, we are in our bodies. Speed up the breath and there's new energy. Slow it down and we feel calm. In the breath we are home in our bodies and in the present moment. How many times today can you pause and take a breath with awareness? It is just one breath.
Practice curiosity
Curiosity is living in the state of discovery not in a state of conclusion. Curiosity is our desire to know more deeply, to be open minded. Curiosity can change our perspective and world view. Where in your life could you be more curious and open minded? How might things shift?
Assume a positive outcome?
What might happen if you were to assume a positive outcome? Would your actions or behaviors change if you assumed the best rather than expected the worst? How might things change in your assumptions, attitude and perspectives? What might change in your relationships, experiences, or moments? What would happen if you assumed the best in yourself and others?
$60 for the challenge
All levels welcome and no one turned away for lack of funds
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