Jon Kabat-Zinn – Opening To Our Lives

An 8-Week Immersive Online Learning Experience in Mindfulness Meditation

Explore mindfulness meditation with Jon Kabat-Zinn—one of the most respected teachers in the modern mindfulness movement. For over 40 years, he has been teaching people to apply the principles and practices of mindfulness in their lives. Now, it’s your opportunity to establish new ways of being in wise and nurturing relationship to your own life

How Living in the Present Moment Can Change Your Life

How present are you right now? Are you really here? Or is your mind off somewhere else, caught up in thinking and emotions, the past and the future, without being fully aware of that fact? It is all too easy to live focused on the next item on our never-ending to-do list, hoping to get it checked off and feel good for however long that feeling will last. But when, if ever, do we allow ourselves to simply drop into the present moment as it is—to practice residing in awareness, in the domain of being, or if you will, in the domain of “non-doing”?

This rotation in consciousness can catalyze an entirely different way of being and acting in the world.

The miracle of mindfulness is that it reconnects us to the inherent richness of life inwardly and outwardly—a richness of embodied wakefulness and possibilities that can only be found and inhabited in this timeless moment we call “now.”

Sounds True Presents: An Eight-Session Online Course

You are invited to open to things as they actually are and become more intimate with and understanding of change and impermanence through mindfulness meditation.

Join Jon Kabat-Zinn as your instructor in Opening to Our Lives

includes previously recorded Q&A sessions to expand your learning

Explore mindfulness meditation firsthand with Jon Kabat-Zinn—one of the most respected and experienced teachers in the modern mindfulness movement. For more than 40 years, Jon has been teaching people how to apply the principles and practices of mindfulness in their everyday lives.

Across the span of the course’s eight sessions, Jon will guide you in establishing new ways of being in wise and nurturing relationship to your own life—in the stressful and difficult times, as well as in the pleasant and gratifying moments.

The cultivation of moment-to-moment, nonjudgmental awareness (or mindfulness) can help you befriend every aspect of your life, including those that are most difficult, most painful, and most unwanted. Opening to Our Lives provides an essential set of training skills from a master teacher that will form a friendly and reliable foundation for a lifetime of practice. The invitation is to live the life that is yours to live, in alignment with your deepest principles and values.

What You’ll Learn In Opening To Our Lives

Cultivating Mindfulness Can Lead to …

• Relief from Overwhelm & Anxiety
  Experience a greater sense of spaciousness and ease by learning how to skillfully navigate day-to-day stress
• Heightened Resilience
  Establish a sense of embodied presence, allowing you to weather challenges and setbacks wisely
• Increased Awareness
  Illuminate the nature of your thoughts, emotions, and what we commonly call “self,” and how they relate to the larger world and your unique trajectory through life
• Habits for Flourishing
  Explore mindful hatha yoga and movement practices that promote health and well-being at every level
• Greater Self-Discipline
  Develop or deepen an ongoing meditation practice tailored to your needs and longings
• Everyday Empowerment
  Open to and befriend the present moment, even in the face of “the full catastrophe” of the human condition
• Taking Better Care of the World
  Realize how your own awareness and embodied choices can contribute to healing the world and making it a more just, equitable, and ethical place

Course Sessions

SESSION ONE: Mindfulness for a Modern Audience

• What is mindfulness?
• An experience of being alive
• A guided sitting meditation

SESSION TWO: Mindful Breathing

• Focusing on the breath—and the present moment
• Recognizing and befriending the wandering mind
• The gold mine you take for granted

SESSION THREE: Establishing a Meditation Practice

• Preparing the soil
• Cultivating non-doing

SESSION FOUR: Mindfulness and Your Body

• Embodied awareness right here, right now
• Everyday meditation

SESSION FIVE: Mindfulness and Movement

• Movement meditation practices like yoga and tai chi
• Responding to and alleviating stress

SESSION SIX: Relationship to Self and the World

• Mind-body connection
• Wholeness and oneness
• Radiating joy and goodwill into the world

SESSION SEVEN: Previously Recorded Q&As with Jon Kabat-Zinn

• Jon addresses the challenges of practice and answers your questions

SESSION EIGHT: Previously Recorded Q&As with Jon Kabat-Zinn

• Jon addresses the challenges of practice and answers your questions

About Jon Kabat-Zinn

JON KABAT-ZINN, PHD, is a professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he founded the world-renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Clinic in 1979. He also founded the medical school’s Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society. He is the author of 14 books in print in over 40 languages, including the bestsellers Full Catastrophe Living; Wherever You Go, There You Are; Coming to Our Senses; and Mindfulness for Beginners.

His work has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness into mainstream institutions such as medicine, psychology, health care, neuroscience, K-12 schools, higher education, business, social justice, criminal justice, prisons, the law, technology, government, and professional sports.

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