Mindfulness for Emotional Balance

Explore mindfulness strategies to stay grounded and peaceful at work and at home. Receive experiential support in meditation practices to self-regulate strong emotions when difficulties arise in relationships with others. Discuss lifestyle challenges including our relationship to food and gain the skills to consciously respond to personal challenges, as partners, parents, and siblings.

Learn how to cultivate a more positive relationship with your mind and body to reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and addictive tendencies. Gain a deeper understanding of how trauma is held and released in the body and return home with the tools to guide you toward your goals.

During this program we will experience these embodied practices:

• Mindfulness Yoga
• Self-inquiry meditation for emotional balance
• Non-reactive awareness
• Loving-kindness meditation
• Body scans
• Eating and walking meditations
• Sensory and situational awareness exercises

Continuing Education (CE) Opportunities

• Yoga Alliance (YA): Approximately 7 contact hours. You can input your contact hours using your YA login information.
• Integral Yoga Teachers Association (IYTA) can provide you a CE certificate with your program’s total contact hours for a $10 fee (free for IYTA members.) For more information, email membership@iyta.org.

Testimonials

If you want authentic yoga that focuses on the mind-body-breath connection and provides personal growth lessons taught by a highly experienced instructor who lives his life based on his own teachings, this is where you need to be. — Scott D.

Michael’s warmth, kindness, and depth of knowledge are beyond compare. Not only have I gained physical strength and flexibility through his classes, but I have been challenged to examine my thoughts and actions through the practice, which is far more than poses alone. — Kathreen R. 

The workshop instructor was fabulous. He gave us so much knowledge and it was offered in a simplistic way. — Jessica C.