Foundations in Mindfulness - Digitally Delivered Instantly

This course is the beginning of your journey back to yourself. Yes, you might have visions of teaching and empowering others, but the real empowerment comes from you and your practice. 

On this course you will learn about what mindfulness is, how to practise it and apply it to your daily life and finally the fundamentals of teaching it.

You will be asked to:

Practise meditation daily, minimum of 10 mins - optimal 20 mins

Reflect through journaling on your practice

Plan and teach a 20 min meditation 

Incorporate mindfulness in a less structured way into day-to-day life e.g., mindful eating, mindful walks. 

Snippet of the course: 

Have you ever driven to work or to the shops and thought ‘How on earth did I get here?’

Perhaps you don’t remember what colour the traffic lights were at a certain junction or you can’t remember how busy or quiet the roads were, almost like you were on auto pilot.

You more than likely arrived at your destination safely but your attention during the journey was probably elsewhere. You probably can’t even remember what your attention was on? You were with the chatter of thoughts and the turnings of your mind.

This is known as ‘chitta vritti’ in Sanskrit. Our thoughts are almost in loops like a track that has gotten stuck.

In the modern world we live in we are under the constant stimulus of media that adds to those thoughts almost like being constantly poked in the arm by a child. We have so many stresses and strains that it’s inevitable that our attention is pushed and pulled in all directions.

To live a more mindful life is not to rid ourselves of thought, it is to be aware that our attention will waiver and we will have thoughts. It’s to notice when we are stuck on loop with our internal chatter. All we have to do is notice.

When practising mindfulness, we are practising:

Non-Judgement: If we can learn to notice and accept things as they are, in practising

mindfulness it is likely we are able to take this off the mat (out of our structured practice) and into our lives.