Mindfulness-Based Biofeedback®: A Compassionate Approach to Optimal Health
Join us in a restorative setting, where we will harness the healing power of modern health technology of biofeedback, mindfulness, and compassion-based strategies in an innovative approach to hack resilience in our own lives. We will practice skills to calm negative emotional and physical symptoms, develop a mindful brain, and regulate the effects of stress. Together, we will explore and discover our inner resources to create our B.E.S.T self.  The workshop will help us learn how to incorporate these tools into everyday life so that we are able to continue our self-healing long after the training. The cohesive group experience paves the way for participants to establish a new path to fulfillment in their life from the collective inspiration, connection, and wisdom of the group. Growing into a more mindful way of life is achievable to anyone who recognizes a need for shift in their life and sets an intention to move forward.

Inclusivity
We strive to create a welcoming and comfortable environment that fosters acceptance of diversity and encourages full participation from a broad-based spectrum of participants while strongly affirming the principle of inclusivity. We encourage participation from those with a disability, people of color, LGBTQ, and other marginalized groups. We would like there to be a space for everyone who wishes to join. We aim to make educational retreats affordable for those with a disability through scholarships. To apply for a scholarship, sponsor a participant or otherwise support a workshop retreat visit Aimeecopelandfoundation.org/workshop-retreats/

Stay tuned more information on our Workshop Retreats, registration and scholarship information.

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Workshop on Jekyll Island

• Combines the wisdom of 2500 year-old Eastern teachings with techniques from health psychology.
• Shows participants how to practice and acquire skills to calm the mind, regulate affective states and manage fluctuations in mood and anxiety states though unique exercises in biofeedback, meditation, and somatic therapies, while enjoying nourishing experiences in serene surroundings.
• This workshop is appropriate for anyone seeking improvement in health and wellness who wants to learn to better manage stress and more effectively navigate life’s daily ups and downs.
• 6 CEs available for professional credit, counselors, and psychologists.

Workshop at Jekyll Island 

Combining writing with mindfulness-based meditation and biofeedback skill training can enhance creative and emotional processing and help you deepen relationships to yourself, your clients, and others. This workshop, which will be geared toward individuals with any level of meditation and writing experience, from none to advanced, will provide a framework for adding these tools to your repertoire. It will offer strategies for dealing with stumbling blocks that you and your clients commonly face during the course of writing, and ways to turn these obstacles into teachable moments when they do arise. Connections will be made with various types of writing such as professional blogging or journaling, along with other forms of creative and personal writing. Through experiential learning, group dialogue, and other modalities, participants will learn techniques from positive psychology, mindfulness practices, neuroscience, and creative thinking that they can apply themselves and share with clients. These techniques can help develop skills to calm the mind, develop a mindful brain, regulate mind/body states, develop trust with the subconscious, and explore inner resources for writing.

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On your journey you will be guided through specific methods to help you quiet your mind, find greater clarity, discover the wisdom you have gained through your life experiences, and harness your own healing power.

For more information and to sign up for stress management classes beginning in March contact us at 678-310-8228

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* The classes meet once a week for 8 weeks.

* You will have the benefit of biofeedback instruments to provide you “feedback” of your progress. We have found that this monitoring helps make it possible for changes to occur more efficiently.

* You will be instructed in the way simple techniques such as breathing will help your body truly relax and you will see the effect of this breathing on your heart rate.

* You will be instructed in a variety of ways to bring your body back to a state of balance so that you can build your own repertoire of tools.

* There will be a follow-up class to assist you to maintain your skills.

The exercises in these classes combine the science of two well- researched treatments: mindfulness meditation and biofeedback. Mindfulness-based meditation helps create the space for change to be possible. Biofeedback provides the tools for modification through self-regulation.

Mind≈Body≈Spirit

 Autumn Retreat For Renewal

Dr. Urszula Klich specializes in teaching people to apply tools for self-regulation to maximize physical and emotional health through Mindfulness-Based Biofeedback. Living more mindfully is advantageous to anyone who recognizes a need for shift in their life and sets an intention to move forward. With compassion-informed treatment, her philosophy involves fostering one’s healing power to improve physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Dr. Ronald Alexander is Director of the Open Mind Training Institute in Santa Monica, California which offers clinical programs in mindfulness-based psychotherapy, transformational leadership and mindfulness meditation. He has studied and taught meditation and its clinical application for 35 years in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. He is the author of Wise Mind, Open Mind: Finding Purpose and Meaning in Times of Crisis, Loss and Change>Workshop at Menla Mountain Retreat Center. Reserve early for your preferred accommodations and to schedule optional massage or other treatments at the Mahakuna Spa and Wellness Center.

The Journey
by Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice—
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world
determined to do
the only thing you could do—
determined to save
the only life you could save.

The first time you have to do anything, it is new to you. I find that it really doesn’t matter if you have done something like it, or spent time thinking about it. There is just a process you go through when something is new. We may be tempted to label the experience as good or bad, and us as happy or sad. But those labels are often what keeps us stuck. What if we suspended judgment? I invite you to do so as you sit, for the first time, during our 28-day challenge (sign up for free meditations at http://www.sharonsalzberg.com No matter if you have meditated before—whether you’ve done so for years or days, on retreats, or in your room, through centered prayer, yoga, or martial arts. I invite you to meditate today like you are meditating for the first time.

I invite you to hold a curiosity for the meditation, like you might have when entering a foreign land. You might try envisioning the sitting as a great open field which you are entering, or perhaps like a fresh blanket of snow in which you may create your snow angel. Each breath a footprint, each thought a falling snowflake. And in this way, you may leave the time-worn past behind, and begin anew.
-Urszula Klich