Everyday Mindfulness
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Everyday Mindfulness
Everyday Mindfulness is a supportive 7-week program that helps you bring the benefits of mindfulness into your everyday life. Taught in person in the beautiful Blue Mountains.
Next course starts Friday 23 May in Glenbrook
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Next course starts Friday 23 May in Glenbrook 〰️
Why do this course?
Everyday Mindfulness, taught in person in the Blue Mountains, is all about you. Your wellbeing, your relationships, your self-kindness, and your ability to meet the challenges of everyday life.
The program supports you to become increasingly more present, mindful of what’s important, engaged, and centred. With regular mindfulness practice in your everyday life, it enables you to face life’s challenges with clarity, flexibility, self-compassion, and the inner resources to be with what is. We’ll tap into your inner well of energy, happiness, tranquillity, and ease.
Focusing on You
Studies suggest mindfulness can help with:
Your mind and brain
Mindfulness increases positive emotions while reducing negative emotions and stress. Plus it can increase the grey matter in brain regions linked to learning, memory, emotional regulation, and empathy.
Your emotional wellbeing
Researchers reviewed more than 200 studies of mindfulness among healthy people and found it was especially effective for reducing stress, anxiety and depression.
Your communication
Mindfulness helps to recover more quickly from conflict and develops the skills for presence and listening.
Your body
A leading study found that practicing mindfulness boosts our immune system's ability to fight illness.
Your kindness to self and others
Evidence suggests mindfulness training makes us more likely to help someone in need and boost self-compassion.
Your concentration
Mindfulness can help us focus on the task at hand, tune out distractions, and improve memory, attention skills, and decision-making.
And so much more!
Mindfulness is about befriending who we already are.
Everyday Mindfulness in the Blue Mountains
Everyday Mindfulness: Introductory Video
Everyday Mindfulness: Course Outline
Week 1:
The taste of mindfulness
Learn what mindfulness is and is not
Hear about the research
Get a taste of mindfulness through an everyday activity
Begin the foundational practice of a sitting mindfulness meditation
Week 2:
Be where your feet are
Practice mindfulness of the body
Reduce physical tension
Open to the senses
Cultivate a stable grounded presence
How to handle tiredness in the practice
Week 3:
Walking the balance beam of life
Learn what can knock us off balance in life
Learn how to come back to centre
Strengthen ability to respond rather than react
How to handle restlessness in the practice
Week 4:
Being with the difficult
Learn the R.A.I.N. technique to be with a difficult experience
The role of emotions, thoughts, and sensations
Working with physical pain and discomfort
Practicing self-compassion
Week 5:
We need to talk
Relational mindfulness in daily life
How to speak with intention and listen with attention
Understanding conflict
Broadening compassion to others.
Week 6:
Life practice
This is a life practice week with no in-person class. It’s a time to embed the practices, and reflect on learning
Gather your questions for discussion at the final class next week
Week 7:
Integration
We return to integrate all the experiences of the previous weeks
Next steps for long-term establishment of the habit
Receive the details to join the free fortnightly online drop-in mindfulness meditation group led by Jen
As well, each class includes at least one guided meditation, Q&A, and plenty of time for discussion.
You also receive:
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Permanent access to Jen’s library of guided mindfulness meditations to support your practice anytime.
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A companion workbook full of practical tools, reflections, quotes, and space to journal your insights.
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You’ll have dedicated one-on-one time with Jen before the course begins, and opportunities to check in during the course to personalise your learning.
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Each week you’ll receive a follow-up email with helpful resources, practice reminders, tips, and short videos (including The Mindful Minute) aligned with that week’s theme.
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You’ll have the option to join a small, supportive WhatsApp group with your fellow participants to share insights, ask questions, and stay connected.
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You’ll receive access to a curated page of additional materials, including recorded mindfulness practices, reflections, and articles to deepen your understanding.
Your facilitator: Jen
Hi, I’m Jenny Steadman and I’d love to help you incorporate mindfulness into your everyday life.
Perhaps you’ve tried a meditation app, or read a book about mindfulness and want to develop your skills. Or maybe, like so many people right now, you’re experiencing anxiety and stress and want some practical tools to boost your well-being.
Do you ever feel as though life is rushing by too quickly? Or perhaps you feel like time is slipping past and you wonder how to make the most of it.
With mindfulness, we learn to enjoy everything the good times offer. And face the hard times with greater resilience. When I received my breast cancer diagnosis, the skills I’d learnt through studying mindfulness and meditation helped so much!
I am one of only four fully certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teachers in NSW (as listed on the Mindfulness Training Institute of Australia & NZ website), I’m a certified Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness practitioner and a member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. I teach from my base in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia.
Program Cost:
The registration fee is $60 + GST, which helps cover running costs. This amount is payable before the course begins. Bookings are made via the Humanitix website. At checkout, you'll have the option to cover a small booking fee charged by Humanitix, which supports education programs for disadvantaged children.
At the end of the course, participants will be invited to make a contribution towards the teaching, based on what feels right for them. This approach allows each person to reflect on what the course has meant to them and to offer an amount that feels both appropriate and affordable.
If you're unsure what to contribute, it may help to know that people typically offer between $25 and $250. There’s no expectation—just an open invitation to offer what feels right for your circumstances and the value you received.
Contributions can be made via cash or electronic transfer at the completion of the program.
What people are saying:
“I am less stressed … and much more mindful during daily tasks and conversations.”
— Tracey R
“The course was amazing! It really helped me identify how to become a more well rounded person and start to nurture qualities I had previously ignored.”
— Thomas
“The best ever. I’m really looking forward to doing more of this in the future.”
— Kathy
“Thank you Jen. There are really not enough words to say for all that you have given us. Your words, voice, wisdom, patience, gentleness, non-judgement are truly wonderful and so appreciated.”
— Danielle
Everyday Mindfulness.
The next course starts: Friday 23 May
Location:
Glenbrook Yoga Space, 14A Hare Street, Glenbrook NSW 2773
(entry via King Street)
Course Schedule:
Week 1: The Taste of Mindfulness – 23 May, 12:30–2:30pm
Week 2: Be Where Your Feet Are – 30 May, 1:00–2:30pm
Week 3: Walking the Balance Beam of Life – 6 June, 1:00–2:30pm
Week 4: Being with the Difficult – 13 June, 1:00–2:30pm
Week 5: We Need to Talk – 20 June, 1:00–2:30pm
Week 6: Life Practice – No in-person class
Week 7: Integration – 4 July, 12:30–2:30pm
Start your mindfulness journey today.
Interested to attend Open Wisdom’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program instead of (or in addition to) Everyday Mindfulness?
Click the button below to register your interest to the attend the MBSR program in the Blue Mountains.