Mindful Living: 6 week course

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A 6 week journey of Mindfulness and Self Compassion, Meditation and Yoga.

In this 6 week immersion you will be guided through Mindfulness and Self Compassion-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.

This immersion includes both Mindfulness and Self Compassion-based meditations as well as tools to support you in your daily life. 

I will be offering DAILY home practices, including guided meditations, journalling exercises, and a weekly yoga/movement session.

The idea is that through practicing meditation and engaging in these practices through the 6 week course, you will feel greater confidence in living life more mindfully and compassionately; for the benefit of yourself, your loved ones, and the world around you

• Cultivating presence
• Working with stress
• Exploring the nature of the mind and awareness
• Exploring and applying the key attitudes for mindfulness: beginner's mind, curiosity, acceptance, non-judgment, letting go, compassion, non-striving and patience.
• 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 thoughts.
• Connection with the body
• Working with difficult feelings and emotions
• 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
• Finding stillness and spaciousness within.

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

• Weekly zoom sessions to be held on Tuesday evenings from 7:30pm - 9pm AED.
• Daily Guided meditation recordings and other mindfulness and self compassion based practices to support your 'at home' practice.
• Weekly yoga sessions (pre-recorded)
• Community support via an online platform 

$330 (includes booking fee).

Medicare rebates of $22.55 per session ($135.30 in total) available for those on a Mental Health Care Plan.

Payment plans are also available. Please get in touch to arrange/inquire.

New course dates TBA

In person

Course Structure

• 8 x 2 hour sessions incorporating theory, practice, discussion, meditation.
• Home practices and guided meditations to support your integration of Mindfulness and Self Compassion into everyday life.
• Journalling exercises6

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.

Self Compassion is the practice of responding to yourself with the same kindness and care that you would a good friend. 

Often, our way of responding to ourselves when we are having a hard time is to either judge or criticise ourselves, or to run away from the pain through avoidance or numbing. Neither strategy offers any relief and keeps us stuck in a cycle of shame and isolation. 

Compassion supports us to turn towards ourselves with kindness and care and reminds us that whatever we are experiencing is part of our common humanity. We are not alone.

By soothing ourselves in this way we have greater capacity to connect with others in this same compassionate way. 

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.