Walking meditation with Jamila
at St. Mary’s garden, Barnstable
Breathe, relax, witness,
slow down and explore
Mindfulness and Meditation Training and Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher Training
At Kind Yoga we offer meditation programs for people to learn how to meditate – Centerville, MA, and also a meditation teacher training. (for meditation teacher training you are required to take both sessions . If you would like further information, click here to fill out a simple contact form and we’ll be glad to get back to you!
“I took this workshop over a year ago, my friend Lucy took this training as well. I was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. When Lucy and I drove to Dana Farber for my first treatment plan, my Blood Pressure was so high, they sent me back to the waiting room for twenty minutes, to try to bring it down. (I was really scared to be there). Lucy said to me ” Kathleen, Let’s do some Mudras from Diane’s meditation class. We did three of them, and I also did breathing techniques. My blood pressure came down to 120/60, the R.N. could not get over this and asked what I did. We told her and she said Dana Farber supports this, but had never witnessed results so fast. THIS CLASS IS FOR EVERYONE. Thank you Dynamic Diane.”
– Kathleen Viola
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day….Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.”
– Deepak Chopra
An immersion into the practices of Meditation and Mindfulness
The course “Mindfulness and Meditation Practice” is offered yearly, Location: Kind Yoga, Centerville, Ma.
Meditation is generally practiced in a quiet environment and in a comfortable position. The mind isn’t forced into strict focus or becoming empty, simply paying attention to the focus of your meditation opens the gate to the experience. We will also explore walking and sitting meditations outdoors on nice evenings. We will explore mindfulness, nature meditation, garden meditation, kindness meditation, mindful eating, mindful body scan, Mindful Movement, and others.
In this program you will:
- Learn mindfulness
- Practice proper posture, practical breathing to ease stress and anxiety so that you can meditate.
- Understand what mindfulness is and be able to practice on your own
- Be guided in the practice of various meditations
- Move beyond the 5 distractions and obstacles to meditation
- Use the process of meditative journaling to reflect on insights
- Learn the skills necessary to begin a lifelong mindfulness and meditation practice
We have been offering our Mindfulness and Meditation training for over 25 years on Cape Cod and in New England area – from teaching in the Falmouth Hospital, Centerville Yoga and other studios, to teaching at large organizations, and local businesses. The benefits of a regular meditation practice are many, and are being researched with findings of medical and psychological benefits – from lowering blood pressure, reducing stress to experiencing more feelings of stability and happiness.
Learn how to direct your energy, mental attitudes, and actions to live in balance with yourself and the world around you. Learn effective skills to help you relax, center, and be calm. Experience useful and practical tools for creating and deepening your meditation practice.
During our last session, we took a field trip to the beautiful Labyrinth in Chatham, MA
Classes will be held in Centerville, Required reading. Please contact Diane for more information via email click here da***@***********am.net Please note “meditation” in info line.
Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher Training
Deepen Your Mindfulness and Meditation Practice and also develop the skillfulness and authentic confidence to lead Mindfulness and Meditation classes.
You may take this training with no intention to teach. If you plan on teaching meditation, you will be given ample instruction, and opportunities to lead small groups in meditation. Manual provided. Prerequisite: Our meditation training or permission and a regular meditation practice
(CEU Credit for Yoga Teachers for each Session you do not need to be a yoga teacher to take this training)
“Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being as humans, and the catastrophe towards which this world is headed – be it ecological, social, demographic or a general breakdown of civilization – will be unavoidable. . . The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility.” Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic in his historic address to the U.S. Congress
Benefits of Meditation
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.” – Sophia Loren
“Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.”
– Rumi
Physiological benefits
~ Lowers Blood Pressure
~ Decreases respiratory rate.
~ Increases blood flow and slows the heart rate
~ Increases exercise tolerance.
~ Leads to a deeper level of physical relaxation
~ Reduces anxiety attacks by lowering the levels of blood lactate.
~ Decreases muscle tension
~ Helps with chronic pain
~ Helps in post-operative healing.
~ Strengthens the immune system
~ Drop in cholesterol levels, lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.
~ Improved flow of air to the lungs resulting in easier breathing
~ Relaxes your nervous system
Psychological benefits:
- Builds healthy self-confidence and a sense of authentic self
- Increases serotonin levels, influences mood and behavior
- Helps control your own thoughts and can help resolve phobias & fears
- Helps with focus & concentration
- Increase creativity
- Increased brain wave coherence
- Improved learning ability and memory
- Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation
- Increased emotional stability and maturity
- Develops intuition
- Increased Productivity
- Improved relations at home & at work
- Able to see the bigger picture of life in a given situation
- Increased ability to solve complex problems
- Develops will power
- Develops better reaction time to a stressful event
- Reduces road rage
- Decrease in restless thinking
- Decreased tendency to worry
- Increases listening skills and empathy
- Helps make more accurate judgments with greater tolerance
Spiritual benefits:
- Helps keep things in perspective
- Provides peace of mind, happiness
- Helps you discover your truth and purpose
- Deeper compassion and understanding of yourself and others
- Brings body, mind, spirit in harmony
- Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation
- Increased acceptance of oneself and others
- Helps with living in the present moment
- Creates a deepening capacity for love
Enough~ by David Whyte
Enough. These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
we have refused
again and again
until now.
Until now.