What is Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well Being?
Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well Being is an 8-week course that explores how mindfulness-based practices can be applied to nourishing one’s body with food and drink.
What Can I Learn in a Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well Being Course?
Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well-Being is an 8-week journey into eating with kindness, awareness, and non-judgment. Through mindfulness-based practices, you'll learn to bring attention to your eating habits, explore your relationship with food, and cultivate gratitude and self-care.
What are the Benefits of a Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well Being?
While each student's experience is unique, the published research has shown changes like these are common.
Weight management • Reduced over eating and binge eating • Healthier food choices • Enhanced enjoyment of food • Increased awareness of hunger and fullness • Weight loss • Improved digestion • Stress reduction • Increased satisfaction with food • Reduced emotional eating
Orientation and 8 weekly 2-hour sessions with a 7.5 hour All-Day session on a Saturday or Sunday.
Tuition: Pay-It-Forward: $765, Standard: $595, Scholarship: $390.
Course pricing is set to allow for generosity while meeting individuals needs. We encourage you to pay as much as you can afford and we appreciate your care and thoughtfulness when deciding.
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Upcoming Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well Being Courses
September 30 to November 19, 2024 - Instructor Sarah Kinsley
Live Online via Zoom, Orientation: Monday, September 30, Classes: Tuesdays, October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, November 5, 12, and 19, Times: 6:00pm – 8:30pm ET, All-Day: Saturday, October 26 from 9:00am to 5:00pm ET
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What is Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well Being?
Mindful eating is eating with kindness, awareness, and non-judgment. Practicing mindful eating promotes gratitude, self-care, and a healthier internal and external experience.
Explore your habitual patterns with food.
This 8-week series explores how mindfulness-based practices can be applied to nourishing one’s body with food and drink. Student will learn how to bring awareness to the direct experience of eating. There will be opportunities to explore one’s relationship to the thoughts, emotions, and body sensations associated with food preparation and eating.
Discover the possibility of freedom.
Practices to increase one’s ability to notice and respond to body sensations will be offered each week and students will be invited to practice in between sessions. The role of your automatic pilot, the importance of “Vitamin T” (Time), and how to skillfully respond rather than react to internal and external stimuli will be explored.
What is the Weekly Overview of Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well Being?
The Mindful Eating curriculum presented here serves as a general overview and is subject to potential modifications based on the unique needs, insights, and discussions that may arise during class.
Orientation:
- Welcome and introductions
- Introduction to mindfulness
- Course logistics and expectations
- Potential benefits and challenges
Week 1:
- Introduction to mindfulness-based eating for health and well-being
- Intention / aspiration setting
- Mindful eating activity
- Orienting and grounding practice
- Loving-kindness meditation
Week 2:
- What is nourishment?
- Role of the nervous system
- Multi-tasking and eating (automaticity-automatic pilot)
- Orienting and grounding practice
- 3-step breathing space
- Loving-kindness meditation
Week 3:
- Exploring the seven types of hunger (Dr. Chozen-Bays)
- The role of mindful movement and feeling tones
- 3-step breathing space
- Self-compassion practice
Week 4:
- Role of interoception: hunger / fullness scale
- What is satiety?
- 3-step breathing space
- Self-Compassion practice
Week 5:
- Gratitude body scan
- Self-stewardship
- 3-step breathing space
- Appreciative joy practice
Week 6:
- The slow down diet / Vitamin T (time)
- 3-step breathing space
- Appreciative joy practice
All-Day:
- In-depth day of practice
- Cultivate mindfulness techniques more deeply
Week 7:
- Explore the role of nourishment in our homes and culture
- Gratitude body scan
- 3-step breathing space
- Equanimity practice
Week 8:
- Using what we have learned
- Gratitude body scan
- 3-step breathing space
- Equanimity practice
- Next steps
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