Please join Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke for an online retreat in movement and stillness where participants will learn to deepen the qualities of groundedness and spaciousness both in how we sit in meditation and in how we move in the world. Please click here for more information and to register.

Join Kim Dastrup and guest instructor Vicki Overfelt for an unforgettable week of yoga, meditation, poetry and music on the west coast of Ireland, in County Clare. Kim is thrilled that poet, David Whyte, and Irish musicians, Blackie O’Connell and Cyril O’Donoghue will join the retreat again this year, sharing their beauty, talent, and exquisite love of the land with us.

For more information, please visit: http://www.kimdastrupyoga.com/workshops/ireland2020

Join skilled facilitators Mara Rabin, MD and Amy Edwards, CMHC on Monday evenings beginning in April to explore ways to improve overall health and wellbeing. This group is ideal for people who are in need of skills to manage reactivity, mood and the physical/emotional costs of the stress response.   Because the group is limited to 12 participants, it is a supportive and productive environment for healing.  The group teaches a variety of self-care skills and is therefore especially helpful for people who are struggling with depression, anxiety, insomnia, chronic disease, and/or traumatic events.

The JFS Mind Body group typically has 10-12 participants and follows the Center for Mind Body Medicine's 9-week curriculum.  The curriculum was developed by James Gordon, MD, a Harvard trained psychiatrist, Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical School, author, and world renowned expert in complementary medicine.  More information about this model can be found at www.cmbm.org . To register contact Amy Edwards at 801-746-4334 or amy@jfsutah.org.

The great poet Hafiz wrote: “Need brings us together; that makes need sacred.” The “perverse blessing of this time” is that this is the soil out of which we grow the crop of love, connection, clarity, creativity, wisdom, and intelligence. In that spirit, we’ve created this list of resources that nourish us so that we may be strong and of benefit to those who need us. You might also refer to our general offering of resources. If you have something you’d like to add to our list, please send an email to vicki@mindfulnessutah.com. May all beings be at peace.

https://www.mindfulnessutah.com/covid19

Livestream Meditations with Jon Kabat-Zinn: Daily, via Zoom, March 30 - April 3, 2020. Sponsored by Wisdom 2.0. Link: https://zoom.us/j/427188578

If capacity is exceeded on Zoom, you’ll be redirected too FaceBook. These will be available online after the events. Subscribe to Wisdom 2.0 YouTube Channel for regular updates.

Join us in the serene setting of Bear Lake, Utah and give yourself the opportunity to cultivate a continuity of mindfulness meditation practice engendering stability, tranquility, focus and resources for transformation led by an extraordinary senior teacher from the Mindfulness Center at Brown University.

Limited capacity. Click here for details and registration info.

Join me in the winter beauty of Red Butte Gardens for a 4-week MBSR Refresher Course beginning Monday, January 13th and ending with an all-day, silent retreat on Saturday, February 15th. During our time together, we’ll revisit the principal practices and themes of the MBSR course. Readings will focus on specific chapters from Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn. This course will be best suited for those who have taken the MBSR course and/or those who have a mindfulness practice.

Dates: Mondays, January 13, 20, 27, and February 3, 6:30PM - 8:15PM AND Saturday, February 15th 9:30AM - 3:30PM.

Cost: $200 (Includes all-day session, practice audio, and anniversary copy of Full Catastrophe Living.)

NOTE: This course is sold out. If you’d like to be placed on the waiting list or learn about upcoming refreshers, please contact Vicki at vicki@mindfulnessutah.com.

Join MBSR Instructor Vicki Overfelt for a morning mindfulness at Intermountain’s LiVeWell Center in Park City. During our morning together, we’ll settle in to longer periods of meditation and movement and connect with others interested in mindfulness practice. Two dates are set for the winter: Saturday, December 7th and January 11th from 9:00am - 12:00pm. For details and to register, please visit contact Liz Young at (435) 333-3535 or liz.young@imail.org.

Using the Learning to Breathe Curriculum as its basis, we are offering two mindfulness groups for ages 10-13 and 14-17. This course will offer teens a chance to unwind, learn core mindfulness skills that help reduce stress, and build coping skills that will last a lifetime.  This group is co-facilitated by Emily Haygeman, PhD, Licensed Psychologist and Vicki Overfelt, MA, Certified MBSR Instructor. Classes are sponsored by Wasatch Learning and Wellness and will meet Thursday evenings beginning October 3rd and will be held at 21st Yoga in Salt Lake City. To register and for more information, please visit:  https://www.wasatchlearningandwellness.com/mindfulness/

Paul Linden, Ph.D., founder of Being in Movement® MindBody Training, is a specialist in body and movement awareness education. His work focuses on the interplay between self-awareness and effective action. Paul’s intelligent, effective, groundbreaking methods are being used throughout the world in the fields of embodied peacemaking, conflict resolution, and trauma and abuse recovery. For more information about the Friday night lecture and the weekend workshop, please visit https://danalevyyoga.com/paullinden/.

Join Scott Moore and Nan Seymour Come to the caldera and revel in your senses!

Enjoy 3 days at a pristine wildlife and bird refuge located just south of Yellowstone Park, on the banks of the Snake River, in the heart of the Henry’s Fork caldera. Stay for an extra night to bask in the beautiful landscape.

Provisions and Possibilities

For three amazing days, you’ll love:

• Comfortable lodging

• Expert teachings and loving guidance from Nan and Scott with special guest, our poet in residence May Stein.

• Daily gentle morning movement

• Personal coaching for your writing

• Yoga Nidra (guided meditation) with writing invitations

• Fireside story circle

• Optional guided nature hikes and birding

• Exquisite cuisine provided by our private food guru

• Privacy and time to write

• Deep breaths

• Optional activities include hiking, horseback riding, and mountain biking, all within the park. No need to get back in your car

Join wilderness guides Kinde Nebeker and Carine Roth, August 15 to 25, 2019 for a Sacred Vision Fast in Northern Utah

We are in a time in the evolution of our species, where more than ever before, each individual’s gifts have the potential to be realized and given to the culture.

The ancient human practice of finding true wisdom by fasting in the wilderness is one of the most powerful tools for connecting to Self and Source — for healing, for direction, and for vision.

Join us on this 11 day vision fast ceremony, enacted in high desert ranch land of Utah. Includes time to slow down and prepare for a four-day solo fast on the land, with several days of integration following.

To learn more about this event, please visit: http://www.newmoonritesofpassage.com/utah-fast

This course is offered by Amy Edwards, Certified Medical Health Counselor. During this 7-week program, one will have the opportunity to explore one’s relationship with food and eating. Observing, with compassion, our patterns of emotional eating or stress eating through mindfulness practices, can help us positively shift our relationship to food and ourselves.

Class size is limited. Cost: $250. Pre-registration is required. Please call 801-746-4334 for more information and to register.

This course taught by Michelle Amussen, MOT, OTR/L, RYT and is designed for younger children, ages 9-12. Tuesdays, April 30 - June 18, 2019. TWO TIMES OFFERED: 4:45pm – 5:45pm & 6:OO-7:00pm. For more information and to register please visit: https://www.incorporatemindfulness.com.

Join senior MBSR instructors, Lynn Koerbel and Robert Smith, from Brown University’s Mindfulness Center for a 5-day intensive MBSR retreat in Heber, Utah at the Zermatt Resort.

Based on the world-renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course (MBSR), this residential program invites this inner exploration as we investigate the framework of the science and practice of mindfulness and its potential to impact the quality of one’s life. This program is appropriate for those who’d like to establish, deepen or re-invigorate their mindfulness meditation practice, and for health professionals who wish to apply mindfulness in their work with others. In the supportive environment of a retreat-like setting, there is time and space to inquire, reflect, and come close to ourselves in ways that allow for learning, insight and healing. 

For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.brown.edu/academics/public-health/research/mindfulness/register-now-course. This event is co-sponsored by Intermountain Healthcare.

Join Scott Moore for a heart-opening weekend of yoga, meditation, nature, storytelling, laughing, and ceremony. Set in the pristine wilderness of the Uinta Mountains in Woodland, Utah, this rustic but comfortable getaway is the perfect place to go deep into your soul. Come and see why this has been a favorite retreat location for hundreds of people.

You'll enjoy:

• All-levels yoga and meditation

• Comfortable lodging

• Delicious and healthy food

• Breathtaking Winter Wonderland

• Blissful yoga and meditation (all levels)

• Snowshoe hiking in the breathtaking Uinta forrest

• Stories around the campfire

• Stars!

• Friends and fun!

Suncrest Counseling is proud to feature Kristen Neff, PhD as the keynote speaker for their professional development training. Kristen Neff is the co-creator of the evidence-based intervention called “Mindful Self-Compassion.” Dr. Neff will present on Saturday only, February 23, 2019. Other presenters on Friday, February 22, 2019.  For more information, please see the website.

Yoga Nidra is a relaxing, guided meditation, where you lie down, close your eyes and listen as I guide you toward experiencing your utmost nature of Being. Yoga Nidra is the practice of experiencing yourself as Awareness. As you practice, your life will recalibrate toward a richer, deeper expression of you. The results of this course are life changing.

This Yoga Nidra experience will be hosted in the comfort of your own home via an online meeting place called Zoom. It will be a live, unique class that you will experience with other practitioners all over the country and world.