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– Mindful Movement with Gentle Yoga –
Instructions and Diagrams for PracticeMindful Movement with Gentle Yoga Yoga can develop strength, balance, flexibility and body awareness. Our mindful yoga emphasizes awareness and balance. Poses are done carefully and slowly and attention is held inside the body. Please consider the following as you practice mindful yoga: Limits – Experiment with staying at your limits longer than you might…
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Maintaining a Daily Mindfulness Practice
Handout
From our Mindfulness ManualMaintaining a daily practice – a few suggestions Question subjective experience in meditation Recognize that the mind desires pleasant experience. Don’t assume that difficult or unpleasant conditions during meditation mean it “isn’t working.” Meet “what is” with equanimity, and evaluate it in the broader scale of your overall life experience. Be curious about whether you…
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– Awareness of Breathing –
Practice InstructionsAwareness of Breathing: Stabilizing the Mind Awareness of Breathing is a go-to mindfulness practice you can do almost anywhere and anytime. Find a stable position for the body (sitting is traditional, but standing or laying down work too), and gather your awareness into the breathing. Feel the actual felt sense of the breath in the…
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Finding the Space: in Practice and in Life
Fall Weekend Retreat 2022
A talk by Tim Burnettby Tim Burnett, September 2022 FALL WEEKEND RETREAT 2022 In September 2022, Mindfulness Northwest Executive Director and Guiding Teacher Tim Burnett led a weekend retreat at the Samish Island Retreat Center focussed on “finding the space.” We offer two or three weekend residential retreats each year. See the Multi-Day Retreats section of our Programs. Talk: […]
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Four Practices for Connecting Deeply: The Buddhist ‘Divine Abodes’
Roots of Compassion 2022
Four Talks by Tim Burnettby Tim Burnett, August 2022 THE BUDDHIST ROOTS OF MINDFULNESS 2022 In August 2022, Mindfulness Northwest Executive Director and Guiding Teacher Tim Burnett co-led a 5-day retreat on the Buddhist teachings on connecting deeply using the four traditional practices called the “Brahma Viharas” for “divine abodes.” Likening these practices to the interconnected roots in a […]
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Walking Meditation Part 2
An article by Beth Glosten
August 2022Walking meditation or rhythmic movement are mindfulness practices that help us come home to ourselves.
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Walking Meditation Part 1
An article by Beth Glosten
July 2022Walking Meditation brings mindfulness to our movement through time and space.
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Comfort and Insight
An article by Tim Burnett
June 2022Comfort and insight are two important things we can experience as we practice mindfulness together.
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Coloring Outside the Lines with Mindful Self-Compassion
An article by Catherine Duffy
May 2022Gently tweaking your mindful self-compassion practice may be just the thing you need to give yourself in the moment.
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Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Mindfulness meets Science
Spring 2022 Retreat at Indralaya
Four Talks by Tim BurnettIn May 2022, Tim Burnett gave a series of four talks on the theme of Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary in our 5-day mindfulness retreat at Indralaya Center on Orcas Island. Tim’s talks tie the physical sciences in with our experience of the everyday world and point to some of the miracles that surround us […]
