eight simple steps for everyday mindfulness: lessons from the June retreat

Published: Sun, 06/17/18

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Hi ,

I’ve just returned from a weekend retreat on Mindfulness and Self-Care that I co-hosted with friends Allison Rivers Samson and Lisa Levinson.

Held at the beautiful and restful Banyan Grove in Forest Knolls, California, the retreat was filled with mindfulness meditation practice, walking meditation, and restorative yoga (taught by yours truly), self-care and fitness fusion via NIA by Allison, and healing circles by Lisa.

Though the retreat wrapped a few days ago, the love lingers on and each day I quietly thank each person in attendance for this wonderful opportunity.

http://lanimuelrath.com/eight-simple-steps-to-support-everyday-mindfulness-lessons-from-the-june-retreat/

At the final mindfulness session of the retreat I wanted to leave attendees with some simple tools for bringing more mindfulness into the day. The value of this is an increased sense of presence – really living your live as you are living it. This has multiple benefits – decreasing wandering mind (which can lead to immersion in the default mode network and excessive rumination which hooks other neural activity in the brain such as obsession, cravings, addiction, sadness, depression...mind states to which we don't necessarily aspire, right?

Today, in an article I wrote for you, I detail these eight simple tools. You'll find them all right here on the blog.

Plants, peace, and love,

Lani

Upcoming events:

I'll be presenting at NAVS Vegetarian Summerfest in Johnstown, PA July 4 - 8. Hope to see you there!

Now waitlisted! The upcoming Retreat with Yours Truly at Stanford Inn! All the details are up on my website here (including the draft of the schedule on clickable link to fetch the pdf), and the link to the event page at the Stanford Inn website. Along with presenting and teaching about mindfulness, there will be Art of Play sessions with author and art therapist Joan Stafford (co-owner of the Stanford Inn), plant-based cooking class, yoga, hiking, MEALS in the destination plant-based restaurant on site - Ravens - and more. Both single and double rates are available, and for what you get with this experience, it is priced right. Hope you can join us! Here's the link again. Space is limited.

Alaska Vegfest is September 8, where I will be sharing the stage with the authors of The Alzheimers Solution. It's my first trip to Alaska and I can't wait to meet up with this wonderful community in our northernmost state! Here are all the details and I hope if you are anywhere nearby that we will be able to meet.

September will be a busy month for in addition to the Alaska Vegfest and the Retreat at the Stanford Inn, I will also be the Keynote Speaker at a Health Caregivers Conference in Springfieldd, Illinois. Then it will be back to Illinois in October to speak at the spectacular annual Chicago VeganMania. Too much fun, and I hope our paths cross at one or more of these upcoming events

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