A weekly program of Yoga, Mindfulness Based Meditation and Mind/Body Awareness training tailored to the needs of adult or young learners: for workplace, educational or community settings.

Program Content:

1.5 hour weekly program includes:

Body awareness and relaxation through mindful movement (30 minutes of Yoga)
Guided and Mindfulness meditation (20 minutes).
Introduction of Mind/Body concepts, discussion of stress-reducing techniques and strategies for transferring learned skills to workplace, institution or home (30 minutes)

What are the benefits of participation?:

Personal and Professional wellness: Stress management is critical for health, happiness and well-being

Personal and Professional effectiveness: Mind/Body approaches are proliferating in healthcare and professional settings because they work

Skill Mastery and Transferability:

Engaging the Body & Mind for Wellness highlights simple skills which are effective in any setting and which can be adapted to enhance the learning from other program and training components.

Engaging… encourages participants to bring learned skills into present moment awareness – not to wait to “destress and decompress” but to respond in ways which prevent unhealthy stress from accumulating.

Engaging…provides a foundation upon which excellence can be intended, cultivated, demonstrated using simple, conscious, tools for coping with the day to day and with challenging circumstances and interactions.

The Bottom Line:

Program is suitable for both staff and client participation, either together or in separate components, enhancing learning and creating a common “vocabulary” and skill set around stress coping repertoires.

New tools to manage stress, increased well-being, creates a positive and respectful work and school setting and demonstrate support for your people resources and your client population

Training program can be tailored to reinforce components of existing programming increasing opportunities for skill development;

Program Detail: please contact Ariel Learoyd 403-383-3400

Mindfulness for Everyday Life

Yoga + Meditation = Mindfulness for Everyday Living

What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness teaches people to relax and stay aware in the present moment so that they build resilience to stress and distress. Arising from Buddhist tradition, mindfulness is making its way into mainstream settings because it is easy to learn, and it is effective.

What does the program look like?

The 8 week program meets weekly for a 1.5 hour session. Each class consists of 40 minutes of Yoga, 30 minutes of instruction on mindfulness and its real-life applications, and a 20 minute period of guided meditation, ending with a short practice period. The course is designed to build on the learning and practice of previous lessons so that this technique progresses from being “known about” to “practiced” to “embodied”.

What results can be experienced?

Mindfulness practice increases “present moment awareness” which has been shown to benefit by:

Increasing relaxation
Increasing self-awareness
Helping to facilitate response rather than reaction
Helping to prevent stress from accumulating.
Bringing skills to promote life balance

This class provides many opportunities to directly experience relaxation and ease while learning useful techniques and strategies to increase resilience and awareness.

Please see Classes for scheduled offerings...