Learn to live with greater awareness, peace, enjoyment, focus and clarity with monthly mindfulness meditation sessions in a beautiful calm, peaceful setting at Maroochy Botanical Gardens (in Tanawha).

Practising mindfulness and meditation can reduce feelings of:

• Stress and anxiety
• Impatience and reactivity
• Fatigue
• Restlessness
• Distraction
• Emotional overwhelm

And increase feelings of:

• Calm and peace
• Being rested and refreshed
• Focus and clarity
• Productiveness
• Patience
• Creativity and inspiration
• Joy and contentment

This comprehensive, yet simple to learn and secular program teaches everything you need to know about how to implement mindfulness and meditation into your daily life, to cultivate mental, physical and emotional wellbeing.  

What you will learn:

• Tips to incorporate mindfulness into everyday activities for greater life enjoyment.
• How meditation works, its benefits and the practical ways it can influence your life.
• Different styles and techniques of meditation.
• Breathing techniques to reduce anxiety and stress and enhance focus, clarity and productivity.
• How to tune into your senses to enhance everyday experiences.
• Exercises to relax your body and mind.
• How to stop overthinking and being controlled by your thoughts.
• Methods to accept, process and release emotions.
• How to establish a meditation practice to fit in with your life.

You will also receive a guide to download and online access to listen to the meditations in between sessions. You can also join my facebook group for additional support:

Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/210613396913865  

Meditation Sunshine Coast is providing these low cost classes in participation of the Sunshine Coast Council's Healthy Sunshine Coast "Join the Movement Program".

https://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/Living-and-Community/Community-Support/Healthy-and-Active/Healthy-Sunshine-Coast

PLEASE REGISTER AS A PARTICIPANT OF "JOIN THE MOVEMENT" AT THE COUNCIL WEBSITE HERE:

https://sunshinecoast.i-events.info/my-page

ABOUT MINDFULNESS & MEDITATION

Mindfulness is about:

• Being present in the moment and paying attention to our day to day experiences (rather than focusing on the past or the future which can cause anxiety and depression).
• Observing our senses, thoughts and emotions without judgement (helps cultivate stillness, peace, acceptance, clarity and focus).
• Becoming more self-aware by noticing our internal thoughts, feelings, emotions and the way we respond to them (enabling more thoughtful choices, decisions and actions, as well as greater empathy for others).

Meditation is a:

• Way to practise mindfulness – you don’t have to meditate to be mindful, but you do need to be mindful to meditate.
• Mental discipline that requires concentration.
• Technique to train your mind to be present and focussed rather than thinking about unwanted or distracting thoughts.
• Method to calm feelings of anxiety by weakening the stress signal in the brain.

There are many types of meditation from movement (yoga, tai chi, walking), art (mandalas), sound (singing bowls, chanting and mantras) to relaxation or insight.

Mindfulness Meditation uses attention regulation techniques such as focussing on the breath, the senses and body sensations. It is secular, practical and easy to learn with commitment, patience and self compassion.

HOW TO FIND US:

• Park in the bottom carpark in the gardens.
• Enter the gardens on the pathway that has the white sandwich board style sign advertising the cafe.
• Also look for the green Healthy Sunshine Coast sign.
• Walk along the path around to your right to the other side of the lagoon (you will pass toilets on your left).
• Look for the second green Healthy Sunshine Coast sign.
• We will be in the shelter on your right or the lawn in front if the weather is suitable.
• There will be a Meditation Sunshine Coast pull up banner sign in front of the shelter.

WHAT TO BRING:

• $5 if you haven't completed the online registration (you will need to fill out the COVID register on arrival)
• Mat and/or cushion if you like (there are chairs you can sit on)
• Water
• Hat (incase we do sit out on the lawn)