Journal
Here you'll find writing on mindfulness, neuroscience, mental health, physical wellbeing, and yoga.
These topics often overlap: attention, behaviour and embodiment are all part of the same ecosystem of experience, and the aim here is to explore those connections in a thoughtful and practical way. Some posts draw from research, others from lived experience and teaching. The intention is to share ideas that are useful, considered, and occasionally a bit different from what is typically said.
March 23, 2020
In this practice we bring together three mindfulness techniques with which we have worked so far, to lengthen the transformative space of meditation. Karen will review the practices for 3 minutes, then lead into a 13 minute guided meditation.
March 22, 2020
Meditating with breath awareness is an effective and accessible technique, but it is difficult to learn! In this meditation, you will practice a simple counting technique to help coalesce your attention with the experience of breathing. This will draw your energy away from preoccupations and distractions, and help centre you in a state of greater peace and presence.
March 21, 2020
Your breath is of your body, it is comforting with no unwanted side effects (!), and is the ideal refuge for your heart and mind to find peace. But when the breath is so easily taken for granted, how do you foster a mindful relationship with it? In this guided meditation, we begin to explore the basics of breath awareness meditation.
March 20, 2020
Our experience in the present moment can be likened to a ripply pond. Instead of getting stuck in difficult or distracting feelings (the ripples), we learn to see wider-lens view, and recognize the changing nature of conscious experience. In is the beginning a mindfulness meditation series to help guide you through the basic practices, give you tools to focus your mind, settle your nervous system, and open your heart.