healthy living Archives - Mindfulness Association Being Present | Responding with Compassion | Seeing Deeply Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:05:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-08-at-10.25.42-32x32.jpeg healthy living Archives - Mindfulness Association 32 32 Mindfulness Based Healthy Living https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/course/mindfulness-based-healthy-living/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mindfulness-based-healthy-living Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:22:53 +0000 https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/?post_type=mec-events&p=23497 NEW online 8 week course using mindfulness, compassion and positive changes in eating and movement will enable you to change your lifestyle]]>

Testimonials

“The title of the course made me fearful that it would be judgemental and prescriptive…it hasn’t been!”

“Loved it, as ever. Thank you Ki and Heather for bringing such commitment, well-planned content and enthusiasm to your teaching”

” I thought it was an excellent course, well delivered and very informative in a relaxed friendly atmosphere”

” I really enjoyed the course and found it transformative”

“The course was well set out, took in all aspects of living healthier not just a rigid diet, to recognise that my human failings, lapses will happen and to carry on. I now plan better my meals and shopping. Mindfulness eating, I now sit at the table to eat enjoy the food I have planned for and prepared.”

“It taught me that lapses are fine and just to let go and not fixate on them. Also, unconsciously I have changed my food, eat with my daughter (and more of the time at the table), been more active (even without work I have been more active) and I am overall in a much happier place”

“It made me develop a much moderating sense of the importance of self compassion. I feel much equipped to continue on this journey of feeling so much better”

“Lost weight, I’m healthier and a better example to my daughter”

“Feel more in control of me, the ups the downs, the successes the failures they happen, the changes are helping me lose some weight, that’s the reason I started this journey”

“Small steps – but steps in the right direction. Better sleep means I feel more refreshed and less likely to try to boost my energy levels / wake up by eating masses of carbs”

“Stopped smoking, increased healthy foods, reduced chocolate, got more active, practised Mindfulness more (as opposed to random YouTube meditations)”

“Quite a number of changes, particularly dietary changes, more planning, more positive about me, less feelings of failure”

“Switched to 0% gin, de-caf coffee and increased formal mindfulness practice”

 

8 Week Mindfulness Based Healthy Living Course Online

Do you want to change your lifestyle to a healthier way of living?

YOU CAN READ JACKY’S BLOG HERE

The aim of this course is to create the causes and conditions in your life for our health to flourish through positive changes in habits of eating and movement.  Our aim is to support each other with kindness and care to move to a more healthy lifestyle through insights from practices taken from the Mindfulness Association’s mindfulness, compassion & insight trainings. This is combined with an exploration of evidence-based information about beneficial nutrition and exercise approaches. We will share lots of free and evidence-based resources and you can then choose your own combinations of approaches to explore throughout the course.

The course fee of £165.00, we will ask you to fill out an anonymous pre and post course questionnaire, and 6 month follow up questionnaire on body weight, shape and fitness changes. Places are limited to 23 participants.

The course will take place on Tuesday evenings 7-8.45pm, starting on Tuesday 18th February until Tuesday 8th April 2025.

The course will be led by Jacky Seery experienced mindfulness tutor and evidence-based lifestyle follower and Ki (Michaela) James experienced dietitian with 30 years experience of clinical work in the NHS.

Booking info: Please press the ‘book here’ button.

Weekly themes include:

  1. Getting started – intention, motivation and exploring different approaches
  2. It’s not our fault, but we can be proactive – a compassion based approach
  3. Eating with awareness – a mindfulness based approach
  4. Nutrition overview – some evidence-based approaches to healthy eating
  5. Moving with awareness of subliminal reflexes – an insight based approach
  6. Slips, binges & projection of desire – insight into self-sabotage
  7. Cultivating curiosity & courage to change – facing the challenges of transformation
  8. A healthy lifestyle for me – support moving forward.

TRY THE NON-SLEEP DEEP REST PRACTICE OF PROGRESSIVE RELAXATION WHICH COMES FROM THE COURSE.

]]> Brand New Course! Mindfulness Based Healthy Living https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/latest-news/a-brand-new-course/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-brand-new-course Wed, 25 Aug 2021 12:15:03 +0000 https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/?p=23502 Starts October 6th

8 Week Mindfulness Based Healthy Living Course

Do You Want To Change Your Lifestyle To A Healthier Way Of Living?

This new online 8 week course is being piloted this October. Its aim is to create the causes and conditions in your life for our health to flourish through positive changes in habits of eating and movement.

READ MORE ABOUT THE COURSE HERE

]]> So you want to be a vegan! https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/team-blogs/so-you-want-to-be-a-vegan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=so-you-want-to-be-a-vegan https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/team-blogs/so-you-want-to-be-a-vegan/#comments Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:51:44 +0000 https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/?p=6758 So-you-want-to-be-a-vegan

Firstly, I have to thank everyone who sent me kind wishes in response to my blog last week. I feel truly blessed by the love and support I have received.

Secondly, I want to tell you about an exciting retreat I am leading in Scarborough,  Londesborough Lodge, YO11 2PW next summer. It is a compassion retreat called ‘So you want to be vegan?’ If you are a regular reader, you will know that I am a vegan, but hopefully you will also agree that I don’t bleat on about it too much!

Many people I come into contact with because of teaching mindfulness are interested in the idea of being vegan. I often hear the phrase ‘I would really love to be vegan but…..’

I have put together this retreat for them.

One big obstacle tends to be cheese, or as I call it ‘curdled baby cow growth juice’. Another tends to be concerns about knock on effects for close family members, who are resistant or who are young children.

The retreat will explore meditation practices of rejoicing and compassion in a balanced way and how eating a whole food plant based diet is an act of compassion for ourselves, our animal friends and our planet.

In terms of self compassion a whole food plant based diet can halt or reverse 14 of the 15 top causes of death in the western world (the other one is accidents). Myself I have felt very well since changing to a vegan diet nearly four years ago. My complexion has never been so glowing. And as a women of a certain age, several annoying peri menopausal symptoms vanished or significantly diminished.

My prime motivation for being a vegetarian since the age of 18 was animal welfare. I was a big fan of The Smiths and subscribe to the belief that ‘Meat is Murder’. As the lyric goes ‘It’s death for no reason and death for no reason is murder.’

Then one day driving through the countryside I noticed a field of very sad looking cows. On getting home I bought a book about why be a vegan and what I discovered about the egg and dairy industry horrified me. I ate organic and thought that would mean the animals would be OK. I was wrong!

I struggled being a vegan to begin with. Lapsing regularly due to the temptation of cheese. Then I heard someone say ‘It’s difficult to be a vegan if you think of yourself, but it’s easy if you think of the animals.’ That was the turning point for me.

It is clear now that becoming a vegan is the biggest contribution we can make as individuals towards averting the pending climate crisis. We often work hard to switch to environmentally friendly bulbs and to use less water. The impact of these changes on the environment are tiny compared to switching to a vegan diet.

So I hope you will join me, if you are already a vegan, if you are an aspiring vegan or if you are just curious. We will practice and reflect together and we will explore the facts (nothing too graphic), share tips, have fun and hopefully become a more compassionate force in the world.

And you get to spend a week in the summer by the seaside with some like minded mindfulness pals! And if you teach mindfulness, this retreat will meet the U.K. Network (now BAMBA) annual retreat requirements.

If you book before Christmas you can pay in 5 monthly instalments of £50. Places are limited to 24.

So, enough of the hard sell and I promise not to bring up this subject, at least until Veganuary 2020!

Kind Wishes

Heather

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