MINDFULNESS, MEDITATION, AND BREATHING

Mindfulness is the skill of complete presence. It is about striving towards a balanced frame of mind in which you accurately, deliberately, and without judgement sense how different aspects of the present affect you in different ways.

By practicing mindfulness you will learn to perceive more, discover more opportunities, understand the viewpoints of others, find solutions, manage stress better, and know how to make use of intuition, your fast-paced problem solving skill.

There is already a fair amount of scientific study about the benefits of mindfulness. This meta-analysis of 29 studies, found that mindfulness has a strong effect on stress and moderately strong effects on depression, anxiety, distress, and quality of life (Khoury, B. et al., 2015).

Another meta-analysis of 17 studies also found a clear positive connection between mindfulness and stress management. The authors strongly advise including a mindfulness-based stress reduction approach as a part of all stress reduction efforts. (Sharma, M. & Rush, S. E., 2014.)

Learn to meditate, to strengthen your ability to focus and your ability to regulate your strength, and to be conscious and aware at every moment.

Meditation is scientifically proven to be the means with which we can best regulate our energy levels and to stay focused at work as well as to be able to replenish our strength and restore a calm mind after work.

Harvard University performed a study in 2011, together with the University of Massachusetts Neuroscientist Sara Lazar. The participants of the study were 16 business leaders who meditated 30 minutes per day for eight weeks. The study found robust scientific proof of the benefits of meditation.

The study found not only that meditation reduces stress, but that it changes your brain. Those areas of the brain, that are responsible for fight and flight stress reactions had diminished in size after eight weeks of meditation. The brain scan before and after the study’s eight weeks of meditation also showed that those areas of the brain that correlate with learning and good memory had grown in size. Also the areas of brain that are associated with good perceptive abilities, empathy, and compassion where thicker and bigger.

Join to listen to an introductory zoom on meditation webinar. The introductory 30 minute zoom will reveal you all of those beautiful benefits that you can receive with meditation.

…Or join now to this short course in meditation skills.

You will receive practical skills to start your own morning focusing meditation practices and/or your evening calming meditations. You will know why you would want to do those and take that little bit of time for these exercises, which will benefit you immensely in the long term.

This short mindfulness course will be conducted online (Zoom) in three sessions of 1 ½ hours. We’ll be exploring some interesting theory on meditation, we will answer your questions live, and we will also try out a variety of different meditation practices, from which you will surely find your favorite.

The meditation training will be held online, but very intensively. We are going to be get to know and interact with each other. Afterwards, you will gain access to the recording of this training for at least one year (only trainer visible).

Program for the Meditation Training

1. Meditation benefits
   • Research and proven facts of meditation
   • How to keep up your energy levels with meditation
   • Focusing and mental stamina better at work with meditation
   • Calming and returning to restful state of your nervous system after work day
   • Meditation for fresh creative new thoughts and refresh for the brain
2. Mindfulness and meditation techniques
   • Mindfulness exercises for centering, focusing, grounding and a beautiful aware presence
   • Meditation techniques with breath, keywords of mantras or music
   • Body scan, awareness and acceptance meditation for healing
   • Daily meditation practice how to start it and how to end your day with a bookend meditation for a total cleansing and rejuvenating restoring of your energies
3. Meditation to uplift your every day life
   • Continuity will bring the benefits, great benefits
   • Come closer to your soul, your inner insights & revelations start to flow
   • Becoming empowered in your life
   • How do you practice alone or how would you practice in a group
   • Trauma sensitive meditation practices, keeping respectful of your window of tolerance

Learn functional breathing techniques for excellent health, focus & concentration, recovery and also physical performance.

For a long time we have known what is good natural breathing, but it is not really taught. There’s much modern scientific research about how we should breathe, as well as ancient information on how the yogis wrote about good breathing already 5000 years ago. The old scriptures and the newest scientific research end up in astonishingly similar conclusions, they tell the same story on how to breathe well.

The yoga scriptures in yoga sutras by Patanjali 2600 BC, said that when prana is gone so its life. Prana is breath, air. For nourishment living beings need good food, great water and air. The first important nourishment we have is air, oxygen. Good breathing in a way that the oxygen is transported to each of the tissues, each of the little veins at the extremities and each cell within our body, is our most important nourishment. That is the foundation of good health, that is also the foundation of serenity, feeling good, and taking care yourself & increasing your performance.

Good breathing brings you almost incredible benefits!

• Learn how to breathe so that you oxygenate your body in a healthy way, that will provide you with ample energy throughout the day and help you to restore and calm down after an active workday.
• Your stress levels will lower and you will learn how to relieve stress and even anxiousness.
• You will sleep better and your sleep will replenish your strengths in a completely different way than before.
• Your actual capacity to take in oxygen and oxygenate your body also has an effect on your physical endurance and ability.
• Your benefits are physiological, emotional, and mental. This is a program for the whole body, mind, and soul.

Please join this functional breathing course that has the power to transform.

The breathing course will be conducted online (Zoom) in three sessions of 1 ½ hours. Afterwards, you will gain access to the recording of this training for at least one year (only trainer visible). There are plenty of breathing exercises and time for your questions. You will be inspired and experience the practical benefits right away in your everyday life.

Functional Breathing Course Program

1. Functionally good breathing
   • Why breath in a certain way slower in a certain rhythm and with modified amount of air
   • Nasal breathing instead of mouth breathing
   • Your first revolutionary breathing exercises
2. Breathing exercises for every day energy and calm
   • How to get oxygen all the way to your brain, heart, cells, tissues
   • Diaphragmatic and lateral breathing
   • Breathing exercises that help you focus during a tough working day
   • Exercises before sports or yoga performance
3. Breathing exercises at different situations
   • Combating panic and tough situations
   • Recovering from hyperventilation
   • Breathing exercises for all different sports
   • Breathing exercises for sleep and restful night time