Bringing Mindfullness to Life: Calm on the Go

Thousands of people have taken meditation, prayer and other personal transformation and contemplative workshops only to find that much of the wonderful knowledge, skill, and, most importantly, the benefits, from these workshops are “sitting on a shelf” a week or month later; lying fallow for lack of a way to fit them into a lifestyle that seems to be in competition with a life of balance and meaning. Even for those of us with the best of intentions, new habits can fade very quickly against the onslaught of ‘To Do’ Lists, mothering, fathering, teaming, meeting deadlines, and producing.

Don’t be too hard on yourself, however, because you belong to the large majority. Personal change is very, very hard for most people and there are some good reasons why. One of them is that workshop leaders expect participants to fit their lives around the new practice which for most of us is a pathway to failure.

The first step is to fit the new practice into our lives; not fit our lives around the new practice. The Bringing Mindfulness to Life weekend will give you a chance to relax in a peaceful space of awareness and much more. What has been missing in the past you will find here: a wide variety of simple, easy, and most importantly, adaptable ways to transfer, integrate and, most importantly, sustain habits of stillness in every part of your life – home, work, driving, playing, relaxing.

And with those moments of stillness, you will lower your stress, stay connected to what is deeply important to you, make better decisions, resist impulsive temptations, and feel more balance. It is an essential first step for all other habit change as well since it will add power to every effort you make to change. You will see and feel the difference, as will those around you.

Contrary to popular culture, mindfulness is not sitting on a cushion although sitting on a cushion is intended to be filled with mindfulness. Our kind of mindfulness is a quality of intention that you add to whatever you are now doing with whomever you are now doing it with. Our purpose is not to teach you meditation – although we will do that often during the weekend.

Please join us for two days of sitting, discussion, practice and personal reflection that will help you multiply the benefits you have been hoping for from all the personal development work you have already done.