Sound Bath for Wellbeing of Body and Mind with Deb Taylor

Sound Bath for Wellbeing of Body and Mind with Deb Taylor

Join us to enjoy soft, healing tones as we stretch, breathe, and connect. This relaxing hour will settle your body, mind, spirit for clarity, strength, and positivity. It is a great time to set good intentions for our upcoming days, weeks and months. You can relax to beautiful singing bowls and other sacred instruments, all played by Deb Taylor @debtaylorlife. These tones will help you release tension from the body and mind. You will connect with yourself and our community!

What is a Sacred Sound Bath?
Many cultures work with crystal and brass singing bowls, drums, rain stick, rain drum, chimes, and more to create streams of healing sounds that are especially useful for deep relaxation. This time spent in contemplation, relaxation, and focused awareness can help you reset, heal, and manifest Divine abundance, love, and light.

September feels like a time of new beginnings, back to routines, and organized intentions for greater peace of mind and peace in our heart. As we let go of the tensions we no longer need to carry and ground in self-acceptance, our calm creativity will flow.

Deb Taylor's mission is to shine a light on best practices for healthy, more energized living to feel more regulated and empowered. As a wellness specialist and mindfulness facilitator, Deb infuses her MYndful Movement offerings with guidance in breath work, movement, sound healing, Hatha yoga, intention-setting, and more. Deb has created The MYndful Movement Program which is now being implemented in the corporate world and throughout the education system. Her knowledge and understanding has come from more than 20-years of education in Yoga (YTT200hrs), mindfulness (MBSR), music (BA, BEd), and mind-body wellness.  Deb will guide and support you in bringing more acceptance, compassion, and peace into your work-life and your home-life.

May 30th, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST

LIVE ONLINE VIA ZOOM

Back to Basics - Mindfulness and the Collaborative Learning Network with Alisha E. Athanasiou, Juris Doctor

It is easy to be swept up in the busy-ness of life in an urban city. In this session, we will get back to the basics of mindfulness. Let’s slow down, connect with our breath and body, and sit in community. Alisha’s approach to mindfulness combines yoga and meditation to cultivate a synergy between the mind, body, and spirit.

Together we will explore:

1. Movements to engage areas of the body prone to tension
2. Meditation techniques to focus the mind and help you unwind
3. Key take aways and practices that can be easily incorporated into your day

Alisha has nearly 20 years of experience with the practice of yoga and meditation. She is a lawyer and is licensed to practice law in Ontario and Alberta. Alisha has been taught an array of mindfulness techniques from teachers across North America and in northern Thailand. She is also the founder of the Collaborative Learning Network (“CLN”), an initiative intended to offer mindfulness tools to lawyers. The aim of this network is to help lawyers manage work and life with a view to developing sustainable legal careers.

Alisha has a certificate in Foundations of Applied Mindfulness from the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies, completed Compassion Cultivation Training© with the Compassion Institute, Mindfulness Without Borders facilitator training, and yoga teacher training with her long-time teacher and friend Marco Racco of Olive Tree Yoga and Pilates. Having firsthand experience with the benefits of yoga and meditation, Alisha is incredibly passionate about sharing what she has learned. She tailors her workshops to the needs of students, professionals, athletes, and anyone else that is interested in exploring a holistic approach to health and well being.

Discover more about Alisha's work here: https://aealaw.ca/mindfulness-consulting/ and here: https://jamandyoga.com/ 

Thursday April 25th, 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST

LIVE ONLINE VIA ZOOM

Understanding and Exploring Compassion
Using the Framework of Compassion-Focused Therapy with Greg Samuelson RN, RP

Compassion-Focused Therapy is a Mindfulness-Based Therapy. Paul Gilbert, the founder of Compassion Focused Therapy defines it as: a science based, integrative (consilient), evolution informed biopsychosocial approach to the human mind, promoting caring connections to self and others, hence pro-sociality and well-being.

This session will include exercises, exploration, and dialogue. We will explore the idea of Compassion and how Compassionate Mind Training and Compassion Focused Therapy define the concept of compassion and where it is placed in the framework of motivations, emotions, competencies, and behaviours. We will also talk about the flows of compassion and engage in experiential exercises designed to activate the brain systems that help us to act in compassionate ways and to understand the facilitators and inhibitors to accessing compassion.

Greg Samuelson RN, RP is a Trainer and Supervisor for The Compassionate Mind Foundation. He is a Registered Nurse and a Registered Psychotherapist with over 30 years experience in the mental health field working in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings. Greg has training in CFT, CBT, DBT, IPT, CPT, and Mindfulness based therapies. His current practice focuses on the use of Compassion Focused Therapy in individual psychotherapy. Greg was a founding member of the Canadian Network - Compassion Focused Therapy - Réseau Canadien. He provides supervision and consultation for therapists interested in learning to use the model of Compassion Focused Therapy with their clients. 

Tuesday Feb 27th, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST

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Building the 5 C's of Community Partnerships with Dr. Jackie Sanderlin

In this session, participants will learn how to build community, collaboration, capacity, connection and compassion to increase mindfulness and be empowered leaders. 

Dr. Jacqueline Sanderlin has over 30 years of K-adult education. She holds a B.A. in Communications, M.A. in Special Education and an Ed.D. in Education, Leadership, Administration and Policy. More specifically, she has served as a special education teacher, curriculum specialist, assistant principal, principal, district administrator, SEL/Wellness coordinator, college professor, and executive director of school-community engagement. She is an Executive Board Member for the Goldie Hawn Foundation (Mind Up) and Steering Committee member for SEL4CA (Social Emotional Learning Alliance for California). Her passion has led to cultivating more than 350 community partnerships and dramatic school improvements around the world. These efforts afforded Dr. Sanderlin an opportunity to become the consulting producer of the NBC reality show, School Pride. She is a sought-after international speaker, author of the book, The Why Not Challenge: Say Yes to Success with School-Community Partnerships. Currently, she is the National Education Leadership Executive Manager at Apple, Inc. 

Tuesday November 21st, 2023

7:00pm - 8:00pm Live Online

Applying Mindfulness in Dental Practice

It is no secret that dental professionals work in a field that can be highly stressful. Dental education does not teach us about mental health, self care, compassion or how to cope with the stressors that are unique for us dentists. In this session, Sally will share how she integrates mindfulness in her own practice, engage us in practice and share how mindfulness techniques can help both the dental professional and their patients.

Dr. Sally Safa is a board-certified Periodontist. An alumna of the University of Toronto, she is an associate at the Faculty of Dentistry where she lectures to graduate students. She also works in private practice in North York where she enjoys all aspects of periodontal and implant-related patient care. She is a passionate advocate of wellness for dentists and dental students. Dr. Safa’s Master's research was in the field of Psychoneuroimmunology, understanding the effects of stress on the body. This background combined with her education in the field of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction has allowed her to share the science behind both stress and mindfulness and how it can help reduce stress in our day to day lives at home and the office. She has provided lectures and workshops to dental professionals nationally and internationally.