How to Start a Mindfulness Meditation Practice
Online with Rebecca Eldridge
3 Mondays: Nov 9, 16, & 23, 7-8:45PM US Eastern
$120 for all 3 sessions

NOTE: This course will not be recorded.

"When you dwell in stillness, the judging mind can come through like a foghorn...Imagine how it might feel to suspend all your judging and instead to let each moment be just as it is, without attempting to evaluate it as 'good' or 'bad.' This would be a true stillness, a true liberation. Meditation means cultivating a non-judging attitude toward what comes up in the mind, come what may.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn
Course Overview

A gentle introduction to mindfulness for accessing the deep wisdom, well-being, and wholeness that reside within each of us. The course consists of 3 classes and covers 3 meditation practices: sitting, walking, body scanning. Benefits of practicing mindfulness can range from the physical, such as reduction in pain levels and/or an enhanced ability to cope with chronic pain, to the emotional, such as increased confidence and joy. A body scan audio is provided to each participant for continued practice beyond the course. Classes will not be recorded.

Course Objectives:

  • Recognize the relationship between mindfulness and stress recovery
  • Learn and practice 3 meditations: sitting, body scanning, walking
  • Connect with others new to mindfulness practice (and stay in touch with them, if you choose)
  • Cultivate a practice of mindfulness that fits your life

Course Outcomes:

  • Develop skills for dealing more effectively with stress
  • Experience more presence and joy
  • Improve your sense of presence, resilience, and the capacity to recover from challenges

This course is limited to 20 participants

To register:

1. Complete the registration form and pay for the course.

2. Receive an email from East Coast Mindfulness containing the Zoom link for the sessions (please check your Junk/SPAM folder in case you do not see this email).

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Your teacher, Rebecca Eldridge, co-founded East Coast Mindfulness in 2019, to bring online mindfulness programs to a worldwide community. Prior to that, she served as a senior mindfulness teacher and teacher-trainer at the Center for Mindfulness (CFM), University of Massachusetts Medical School, where she trained CFM teaching faculty to deliver their first online MBSR course.

Rebecca has taught mindfulness programs to cancer survivors, people in chronic pain, business and community organizations, medical and mental health professionals, lay ministers, monastics, and many others. Her personal practice is guided by her teacher, Pema Chödrön, and she is featured giving meditation instruction in two courses taught by Pema Chödrön: Making Friends with Yourself and How to Live with Compassion and Courage.

What technology you will need:

  • High-speed internet connection

  • Please, no phones

  • Join on a computer that has a full-sized screen on which you can see at least 20 Zoom participants, without having to scroll

  • Ensure that your computer is situated on a stable surface (instead of resting on your lap, etc.)

  • Video and microphone capability (so that you can be seen and heard)

  • A place for practice that allows for being undisturbed

  • Current version of Zoom installed

REFUND POLICY:
You may receive a full refund if you notify us via email (info@eastcoastmindfulness.com) before class 1. No refunds will be granted once class 1 is underway.

Questions? Please email us at info@eastcoastmindfulness.com