Whether you’re looking for a tool to manage your stress, improve your focus, sleep better or increase your energy, or you just have a mild sense that things are not as you would like them to be in your life, mindfulness meditation can help. Mindfulness is a powerful tool that increases your ability to cope with stress and the challenges of everyday life and allows you be fully present and alive in each moment. On top of that, more and more studies are confirming the physical and psychological healing effects of meditation relating to how it thickens critical areas of the brain, enhances mental health and increases emotional regulation and self-control.

Join Lara Wharton of Listen Lightly and The Quiet Company for a 4-week series geared towards absolute beginners (but suitable for all levels!). Learn what mindfulness really is and how to practice it so that your life flows more smoothly. Each week will introduce simple techniques you can incorporate into your life to feel more inspired and have more fun. You’ll receive guidance, support and motivation as you navigate your first month of meditating, ensuring that you finish the course feeling confident in your ability to maintain your own practice.

Week 1: Mindful or Mind Full? - Meditation 101

Learn the basics of meditation (what? why? when? where? how?) and its effects on your mind, body and energy. Practice and grow your focus, ability to relax, patience, breath and body awareness, acceptance, kindness and presence.

Week 2: It’s Not What You Think - Dealing with Thoughts

Understand the source of your mental chatter so that you can begin to change your relationship with it. Create space in your mind, day and life for creativity, intuition and stillness to arise. Practice and grow your awareness, self-love, concentration, kindness and intuition.

Week 3: All the Feels - Skillfully Managing Emotions

Become aware of your emotions without letting them toss you around. Create useful mental habits inviting more confidence and optimism into your life. Practice and grow your self-awareness, self-control, empathy, compassion, kindness and gratitude.

Week 4: It’s All About ME - Using Your Meditation Practice to Improve Your Life

Choose the best way for you to incorporate meditation into your life and learn various techniques that will ensure that all of your intentions become reality. Practice and grow your motivation, commitment, focus, ability to set goals and visualize, kindness and happiness.