2023 Workshop Sessions

- Would you like to explore meditation but don’t know where to start?

- Have you been impressed by reports of the benefits of meditation
but don’t know how to incorporate those benefits it into your life?

- Would you love to have time specifically set aside to explore a meditation practice
unique to your preferences and circumstances?

Consider this online six week series your gateway into meditation and mindfulness. Even if you already have an established or sporadic personal practice, this series offers dedicated time and space to spend with your inner stillness, perhaps experiencing it in novel ways.

Each week’s session will include:

• Experiential exploration of a specific meditation/mindfulness practice
• Discussion on variations and practical application of the techniques 
• You will be encouraged to incorporate the techniques explored in each session into your daily life between sessions allowing opportunities to discern what is most effective for your individual preferences and circumstances 

By the end of the series, you will: 

• have established a unique and effective meditation “habit” 
• have acquired a variety of techniques for keeping a meditation/mindfulness practice alive and interesting long after this series is over

All Sessions are online, so you can participate from your own comfort zone!

Dates:  January 12 – February 16, 2023 (six consecutive Thursdays)
Time:  6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Fee: $120 for entire series or $25 per individual session
 *Fee includes access to the session recording for 30 days

Send a check to Nancy Bloemer at P.O. Box 44, Melbourne, Kentucky 41059 or electronically at  https://paypal.me/practicalwellnessorg?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US 

** A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you after you have registered

In a world filled with distraction, give yourself the gift of focused stillness

When asked "How has participating in the “Cultivating a Mindfulness/Meditation Practice Series” impacted you personally and/or professionally?"

• This helped me to ground myself faster and is helping me learn to give myself permission to meditate
• Given me permission to not worry about doing everything “right!;” Do what works for me
• It’s made me more mindful of finding some quietness in my ever busy life
• Helped bring everything into a more balanced perspective
• Made me take time daily to stop and practice – gave me a definite time to stop/slow down
• Tremendously! I started feeling more and more balanced in both personal and professional settings
• Very impactful; Personally, able to react with loving kindness to challenging situations; Within 2 – 3 weeks I was told it was having a benefit; Professionally, going to meetings/facing people with additional mindfulness/awareness/focus; working on being less frustrated and being in the moment.
• Personally and professionally made me more “forgiving” towards myself
• It made me more aware about all the wonderful people around, made me more calm and accepting; It made me better leader and manager of the group of people
• Opened me up to the broad world of mindfulness; made me a better father to my kids and colleague to other colleagues (co-workers)
• The class taught me how to be more appreciative in life and to focus on positive things in general

When asked "What do you consider the most important things you learned or experienced in this series of sessions?" 

• The different techniques and that there really is no wrong way to meditate.
• Brief as well as extended approaches for mindfulness and meditation
• Breathing; increasing my toolbox of relaxation/breathing techniques; learning to be okay with trying and using many different techniques
• It is okay to give yourself permission to relax, meditate
• Feeling of calm – less burnout feeling; prioritizing my health is critical
• Growing is not the same as grasping; I cannot grasp at peace or calm.
• The different types of meditation; gratitude for everything
• Do not be too critical of myself; that life is a journey and a process; that 10% of our lives is what really happened and 90% is how we accept and interpret it
• Multiple ways to practice; acceptance when it isn’t working; stay with it and appreciate that it is a journey, not a race to the finish, not simply a set of techniques to be mastered 
• The most important things I learned from the classes are that practice of meditation is not that hard; I just need to find a way that works to me and keep practicing