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Mindfulness &
Meditation
We bring the practices of mindfulness and meditation to all who seek greater ease, resilience, and strength in their lives.
How Being Mindful Changes Our Lives
Helps you sleep better
This is one of the most widely reported benefits of meditation - help in falling asleep faster, feeling more rested, and being able to fall back asleep after waking during sleep.
Improves attention & concentration
The Chicago Bulls, Golden State Warriors, curse-ending Cubs team, and many more have employed mindfulness techniques to elevate physical performance under pressure.
Decreases anxiety, depression, and stress levels
Hundreds of studies now show that meditation and mindfulness can reduce stress, depression, and anxiety indexed by a wide variety of measures - self-reporting, neuro-physiological markers, and cortisol levels.
Pain Reduction
Mindfulness courses such as ours are now used in hospitals throughout the world, after studies showed it worked better than controls in managing chronic pain.
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is the act of bringing receptive attention to our physical, mental, and emotional states in a given moment.
In doing so, we gain greater capacity to understand our full experience, decrease reactivity, and increase choice and control in our lives. We take ourselves out of auto-pilot.
Why Mindful
Meditation
You will learn tools to become
aware of breath, body sensations, emotions, and thoughts, and to work skillfully with all. The practice is completely secular/non-religious, providing the equivalent of stretching and strength-training for your mind.
Thousands of studies now show that meditation and other mindfulness exercises are one of the best ways to stay mentally well and agile. We cover the stressors faced daily in our lives, and how a wide variety of meditation and mindful awareness techniques can assist you in dealing with them skillfully in the moment and processing them after-the-fact.
Mindfulness for First Responders & Health Care Workers
As first responders, health care, and social workers, you face some of the most demanding conditions in your daily work in serving our communities. Heightened demands require more tools. We have particular expertise with the unique demands and stressors you face and can help you heighten your resiliency and strength under these pressures.
Evidence-based, proven methods for reducing stress, improving sleep, pain & stress reduction
Tangible benefits for your personal & professional lives
Community of peers
Madison is an excellent teacher and guide through our group mindfulness practice. As someone with years of meditation experience, but not much foundation in the origins and theory, her guidance helped me deepen my personal practice.
Madison created a very calm, warm and inviting space to ask questions and learn as a group. I appreciated her personal examples as she related to our group and everyone's unique circumstances/inquiries.
- Grace
I took the 6-Week Introduction to Meditation & Mindfulness course for Health Care Workers. I work in a stressful environment and found the tools I learned from Madison to be invaluable.
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I gained the skills to incorporate breath-work and awareness to calm myself. Madison is a great communicator and her guided meditations were grounding and relaxing. I would recommend to anyone wanting to improve the quality of their thoughts and emotions to take this course.
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- Emily
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Testimonials
"When we are no longer able
to change the situation,
we are challenged
to change ourselves. "
Victor Frankl, Holocaust Survivor
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