Do you know what path you're on? Are you walking towards your purpose? Are you struggling with life's challenges and would value learning some coping skills? Perhaps you have a stressful job, a challenging relationship or a difficult health issue, or maybe there's just too much going on in your life and you're not sure how to find time to nurture yourself.
Maybe, as you read these questions, you're thinking of a friend, a partner or an adolescent in your life.
This introductory Mindfulness course teaches how to manage stress and strong emotions by letting go of the stories and judgments that tie us to the past, or make us fearful of the future.
Mindfulness is focused, non-judgmental awareness. To be mindful is to live in the present with an open, compassionate and non-judgmental attitude. This approach allows us to develop greater clarity and perspective, which in turn empowers us to respond to difficulties appropriately and less reactively.
Science confirms that the practice of sitting and letting go of thoughts not only induces the body's natural relaxation response, but can also shrink the brain's stress centre, strengthen the immune system, weaken the expression of harmful genes, and increase your cancer-fighting cells by 50%.
This workshop is conducted over one weekend in August in Double Bay on Sat 25 & Sun 26 Aug, 11:30am-4pm each day. Over this weekend we cover the four modules normally covered in the four week course, in a relaxed stress-free environment, with plenty of time for discussion and practice.