While meditation practices of all kinds are becoming more popular for stress relief and as part of wellness routines, what does Meditation actually mean for the mind? What are our minds doing when we meditate? What are different meditation techniques and how to they cultivate different mental skills?
This workshop will explore the new science of the mind, including what brain scans can tell us about the impacts of meditation and what is actually happening in the brain when we meditate.
We will also talk about how meditation traditions understand our relationship to our thoughts, how we can change our common thought habits, and and how we can enhance our western psychological perspectives of the mind with this additional perspective.
This workshop will give participants a few short meditation practices to experience different techniques for themselves and discuss how we might share some of these simple practices with clients when appropriate.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- an understanding of the new science of meditation & the mind
- a clear perspective of the way meditation traditions see our relationship to our thoughts and how to change this relationship to improve well-being
- an experience of a few simple meditation techniques
- a change to discuss ways to share simple meditation practices with clients
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- This workshop is open to all therapists and those interesting in learning more about meditation from both a experiential and scientific perspective.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- This workshop will give participants new level of understanding meditation that they will be able to use for themselves and their clients.
Course Content
Presenter
Sarah Beth Hunt is a meditation and breathwork coach, yoga teacher and founder of Messy Luminous Being online platform. She received Ph.D. in Indian Studies from the University of Cambridge, and has trained in both the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhist meditation and traditional yoga through the British Wheel of Yoga. She currently works with clients using movement, breathwork and mind-training practices to harness the body’s physiology and the mind-body connection and transform their inner state.
