by Mindfulness Toronto | Nov 3, 2016 | Community Meeting
As mindfulness in education continues to gain more acceptance in Ontario, many implementation plans begin with programs for students. Since mindfulness is an experiential, embodied practice that evolves over time, providing mindfulness training for those educators who...
by Mindfulness Toronto | Sep 27, 2016 | Community Meeting
One way of looking at our experience is that five fundamental unconscious fears give rise to our reactive emotional states. These fears generate a predictable pattern of emotion, thought, behavior, and beliefs. For example, someone who tries to intensify their...
by Mindfulness Toronto | Jun 7, 2016 | Community Meeting
Traditional psychotherapeutic approaches to working with mental health problems have emphasized the role of thoughts in causing anxiety and depression. The role of the body is less recognized and it is known that mental health disorders involve a loss of body...
by Mindfulness Toronto | May 4, 2016 | Community Meeting
Meditation can be useful to moderate and explore intense emotional states such as anger, anxiety and depression. Both Concentration and Receptive styles of meditation can be helpful. I will review these styles and offer some suggestions about how to decide which type...
by Mindfulness Toronto | Apr 4, 2016 | Community Meeting
The time-tested Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) retreat incorporates mindfulness meditation, compassion practices, mindful movement and sports, creative workshops, and group discussions to create a unique and rich retreat experience. Andrea Poile, the...
by Mindfulness Toronto | Mar 8, 2016 | Community Meeting
What do we mean when we talk about the breath? With mindfulness we encourage people to follow the breath. This is so positive because often people come to us feeling that they are doing everything wrong and we don’t want the breath to get in the way of...
