Mindful Being: 8 week course

---

An 8 week journey of Mindfulness and Self Compassion.

In this 8 week immersion you will be guided through Mindfulness based theory and practice to support you to find greater presence, reduce the experience of stress, anxiety and depression and find greater acceptance, openness, compassion and inner peace.

Course Structure:

• 8 x 2 hour sessions incorporating theory, practice, discussion, meditation and movement..
• Home practices and guided meditations to support your integration of Mindfulness and Self Compassion into everyday life.
• Journalling exercises to support your integration of Mindfulness and Self Compassion into your everyday life.
• Supportive facebook community (closed group, optional) to facilitate your learning and connection throughout the course.
• There will be an optional half day nature retreat available at the completion of the course. This will be in addition to the course and is highly recommended as a useful way of integrating your Mindfulness and Self Compassion practice with connection to nature. More details to come.

Tuesday 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Commencing Tuesday 20th April, 2021

Yoga Bellingen

15 Short Street Lane, Bellingen

Behind the Bellingen Gelato Bar. 

Enter via the courtyard  or the back lane.

• Cultivating presence
• Working with stress
• Exploring the nature of the mind and awareness
• Cultivating qualities of curiosity, openness and acceptance
• Compassion for self and compassion for others
• Working through the foundations of Mindfulness: breath, body, sense, thoughts and feelings.
• Bringing awareness to and finding freedom from old, unhelpful mental habits
• Connection with the body
• Working with difficult thoughts and feelings
• Exploring your relationship with pain and discomfort
• Self Acceptance and Self Compassion
• Developing a loving relationship with yourself and others
• Movement awareness
• Connection to nature
• Exploring stillness and spaciousness within.. 

This course is for those new to Mindfulness and Meditation as well as those who have previous experience. 

Mindfulness is practice of cultivating an open, friendly, non judgmental awareness to the present moment. 

Mindfulness and meditation are shown to reduce experiences of stress, anxiety, depression and other difficult psychological and physical states of being. 

In addition, mindfulness and meditation are found to enhance experiences of peace, calm, joy and a sense of connection.

Practicing Mindfulness and Meditation on a regular basis, can thus, enhance our overall health and wellbeing.

We live in a society and a culture that is increasingly asking more and more from us. Many of us feel challenged to keep up with this unsustainable pace of life. 

We can lose contact with ourselves and lose contact with the people and the world around us.

Mindfulness and meditation are needed more than ever before. 

As we find greater peace, space and stillness within, we have room to connect with greater openness, love and connection to the people and the world around us.

$320

Note: For those on a Mental Health Care Plan you are eligible for a rebate of  $178.80 for the course.