What is Your Stress Type?
Understanding your stress reactions enables you to mitigate the negative impacts on your health and relationships.
Perfect Pairing: Walking + Meditation
Walking + meditation are a perfect pairing to give you a mini-break from the constant mind chatter that creates a lot of our stress.
Practice the Pause
In life, it's inevitable that both moments of connection and conflict may arise. What you do with those moments are your choice.
Beginner's Mind
By adopting this attitude of curiosity, we can create our lives from a clean page and define our own unlimited possibilities.
The 9 Attitudes of Mindfulness
Jon Kabat-Zinn’s 9 Attitudes of Mindfulness are qualities that can be cultivated everyday for a more present, connected and easeful life.
Exciting News!
When injury surprised me 3 years ago, I found the way to my first MBSR course. It changed my life. And now 2 years later - I'm a teacher!
Cake in the Clouds
We left before dawn, hoping to reach the Iron Cross by sunrise. By mid-morning, the day had become one of the most memorable in all my trips along El Camino.
Do You Think You Will Break?
Closing the door to her Manhattan apartment for the final time, Robin Patino left behind a 20-year business career to embark on a two-year journey of healing and self-discovery.
El Camino de Santiago
El Camino de Santiago is one of the world’s great pilgrimage routes and also a UNESCO World Heritage site, with monuments of historical significance all along the way.
Developing Empathy
Our research shows that empathy is a key skill in becoming a more powerful advocate for both ourselves and the world in general. Try our free mindfulness practice to develop your own.
Personal Power
Being an Advocate means taking control of your own mind, of practicing personal and relationship mastery. Our findings show that these allow you to live a life of accomplishment and integrity and become a much more powerful presence in the world.
Being in Action
You don’t see many Bystanders walking El Camino de Santiago. Just in the act of being there, pilgrims have become Advocates walking with purpose towards their goal.
A Matter of Perspective
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So are most other qualities – it all depends on the perspective you are holding. Our research has found that this is especially true if you spend a lot of time in The Victim archetype.
Mindfulness & Language
Learning a new language engages many of the same principles and processes as those of developing a mindfulness practice. Science shows that both activities flex a muscle in the brain involved in the regulation of attention.