Product Description

Wednesday Nov 11 -Dec 2
Time: 6.00-7.00pm
Venue: Parnell Jubilee Trust
 
27 Glanville Terrace
Parnell
Audio Link included and Weekly support.

This course will introduce you to the mindfulness practises that aim to unlock and reveal your own intuitive wisdom. The guidance you receive in these classes are designed to connect you with the mindful state where you can experience first hand the difference between your thinking self and your observing self.
Through the many easy-to-follow exercises included in this course you are training the mind to be more present in the moment. resulting in it to be less anxious, more alert and alive.

Total 4 classes. Each class is 45 – 60 minutes.
Course Content

Week One

• What is Mindfulness?
• How does it work?
• Evidence-based research results
  and the neuroscience.
• The breathing mechanism explained
• Breathing Exercise 1 and 2
• Guided Body Scan
• Questions and Answers, Feedback/personal Enquiry into your own experience.

Week Two

• Identifying patterns of thinking and reacting that keep us trapped.
• Practical ways to work with Difficult Thoughts and Emotions.
• Your Thinking Self versus Your Observing Self.
• Mindful Listening-expanded awareness.
• Breathing exercises and guided body scan.
• Questions and Answers

WEEK THREE

• Respond versus React
• The STOP method.
• Giving up judgments, preferences, likes and dislikes.
• Turning boredom and restlessness into curiosity
• Guided meditation on cultivating acceptance, gratitude and kindness.
• Questions and Answers, Feedback/personal Enquiry into your own experience

WEEK FOUR

• What it means to be fully present in your own life
• Self Acceptance- Stop the search for the perfect you- you are already there -flaws and all.
• The ‘Mountain meditation’
• Developing insight.
• Learning to Let Go, Learning to forgive.
• Open awareness mindfulness practice- letting it all in.

What you can expect from this course

Guidance given by experienced mindfulness trainers who all have their own daily practice
A rest from daily routine, being on auto pilot and being permanently ‘on’.
The opportunity to learn in a safe, relaxed environment with a beginner group.
The chance to learn simple practices to relax the body, eliminate stress, calm the mind
Improve mental and physical well-being, by changing patterns of anxious thinking
Be empowered by the discovery that you can self-manage your thoughts and emotions
Deepen your contact with your natural intelligence and intuition.
Regular daily practice that leads to a freedom from unhappiness.