Mind Your Body:
Mindfulness for Exploring the Body, Mind, Heart and Spirit Connection
Our bodies are more than just a physical form; they can also be a portal into a new way of being in the world.
During “Mind Your Body: Mindfulness for Exploring the Body, Mind, Heart and Spirit Connection”, participants will be guided through a harmonious synthesis of mindfulness meditation, mindful exercises, yoga, and Holistic Hiking. They will learn tools to bring inner stillness into their everyday lives.
Suitable for most people, regardless of age or physical fitness level, these movement practices stimulate and activate the body’s energy channels, clear energy blockages, and increase overall well-being and vitality. Through instruction, meditation, and movement, we access and learn to sustain the formless state of consciousness that is presence.
When: Sunday, June 24, 2012.
Time: 1-5pm
Where: Yoga Center of Los Gatos, 9 Montebello Way, Los Gatos
Suggested Minimum Donation: $30
RSVP: Please RSVP here
Or email info@dragonflycenter.org by Monday June 18, 2012
About the facilitators:
Mindfulness Meditation and Holistic Hike led by Melissa Green
Yoga led by Gonzalo Brito
Reiki by Lucy Keoni
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Additional Notes: No prior experience with meditation, yoga, Qi Gong, or other body-based spiritual practices is required.
Hiking is medium level of difficulty (walking meditation and mindful movement can be substituted for those who prefer not to hike). Please wear comfortable clothing. Bring a refillable water bottle, food and/or snacks as needed (yoga mats and props are already onsite). You may also want to bring sunscreen and insect repellent. *Please eat lunch on your own prior to the workshop. *We may have a group dinner together after the workshop at Andele’s in Los Gatos |
About Mindfulness:
Mindfulness may change your life…
Mindfulness is a type of meditation that involves formal and informal practices. In formal practice, you take some amount of time everyday to stop and meditate. With informal practice, you allow the mindfulness practice to flow into all aspects of your everyday life.
Through research and studies of the effects of MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction), a multitude of benefits have been found.
Mindfulness has been shown to transform emotions and lift the spirit; help decrease and alleviate several physical health symptoms and cope with pain in the body; increase brain functioning and cognitive attention abilities; and cultivate inner resources and resiliency that bring peace, joy, life balance and vitality.
Mindfulness is simply awareness, which in actuality is not so simple. Mindfulness requires that you intentionally pay attention to the present moment with an attitude of non-judgment. Mindfulness meditation is an embodied practice that cultivates a healthy relationship with the self. This personal and friendly relationship with yourself extends to create healthier relationships with others.
Therefore, your personal practice of mindfulness may also change the communities in which you engage as well as expand and reach to affect the entire world.
Knowing yourself is powerful! And it is also a major challenge – quite possibly the most difficult work that you can implement. But what work is more important? Mindfulness cultivates the deep listening that is required to truly come to know your own self in body, mind, heart and spirit.
Mindfulness may change your life…
Mindfulness is a type of meditation that involves formal and informal practices. In formal practice, you take some amount of time everyday to stop and meditate. With informal practice, you allow the mindfulness practice to flow into all aspects of your everyday life.
Through research and studies of the effects of MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction), a multitude of benefits have been found.
Mindfulness has been shown to transform emotions and lift the spirit; help decrease and alleviate several physical health symptoms and cope with pain in the body; increase brain functioning and cognitive attention abilities; and cultivate inner resources and resiliency that bring peace, joy, life balance and vitality.
Mindfulness is simply awareness, which in actuality is not so simple. Mindfulness requires that you intentionally pay attention to the present moment with an attitude of non-judgment. Mindfulness meditation is an embodied practice that cultivates a healthy relationship with the self. This personal and friendly relationship with yourself extends to create healthier relationships with others.
Therefore, your personal practice of mindfulness may also change the communities in which you engage as well as expand and reach to affect the entire world.
Knowing yourself is powerful! And it is also a major challenge – quite possibly the most difficult work that you can implement. But what work is more important? Mindfulness cultivates the deep listening that is required to truly come to know your own self in body, mind, heart and spirit.
