3 Reasons YOU Will Love Brain Yoga Class
But First, What IS Brain Yoga???
Very simply, it's like doing yoga, but in your mind.
Also, it's 100% FREE. Always has been, always will be. We give everyone an opportunity to practice generosity, should they choose. But it is never, ever, required.
I'll tell you what it's all about, but the best way to understand it is to attend a free class. We meet every Tuesday Evening at 8:15 EST.
All are welcome and no prior experience is necessary.
The word yoga - the sanskrit word yunakti - means to yoke together. Brain yoga is a way we yoke together the many complex systems, networks, and nodes in our brain. Neuroscientists call it integration, and it is well known to bring amazing benefits to anyone who cultivates it through basic practices like the ones we do in Brain Yoga class.
The class is 60 minutes long. Once everyone is settled into our zoom space, we start a guided meditation that lasts around 30 minutes. After that, your host - Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Art Burns - will give a brief talk about a concept associated with mindfulness. Some of our topics might touch on the concept of acceptance, as Art helps you understand what acceptance means and how to apply it in your daily life - and also to differentiate acceptance from apathy or or indifference. We discuss a new concept every week.
Next, Art holds space for you. Anything you'd like to share, a question you'd like to ask, or even a joke you'd like to tell us. The next 15-20 minutes are all yours. Every one of you, as time allows.
Then we wrap our class up with a little reading. I won't spoil the surprise, but we have a pretty cool way to find the reading passage of the week.
Also, it's 100% FREE. Always has been, always will be. We give everyone an opportunity to practice generosity, should they choose. But it is never, ever, required.
I'll tell you what it's all about, but the best way to understand it is to attend a free class. We meet every Tuesday Evening at 8:15 EST.
All are welcome and no prior experience is necessary.
The word yoga - the sanskrit word yunakti - means to yoke together. Brain yoga is a way we yoke together the many complex systems, networks, and nodes in our brain. Neuroscientists call it integration, and it is well known to bring amazing benefits to anyone who cultivates it through basic practices like the ones we do in Brain Yoga class.
The class is 60 minutes long. Once everyone is settled into our zoom space, we start a guided meditation that lasts around 30 minutes. After that, your host - Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Art Burns - will give a brief talk about a concept associated with mindfulness. Some of our topics might touch on the concept of acceptance, as Art helps you understand what acceptance means and how to apply it in your daily life - and also to differentiate acceptance from apathy or or indifference. We discuss a new concept every week.
Next, Art holds space for you. Anything you'd like to share, a question you'd like to ask, or even a joke you'd like to tell us. The next 15-20 minutes are all yours. Every one of you, as time allows.
Then we wrap our class up with a little reading. I won't spoil the surprise, but we have a pretty cool way to find the reading passage of the week.
Who: You and anyone you think might be interested. All are welcome. 100% FREE and no prior experience necessary
What: A 1-Hour Meditation Class
When: Every Tuesday at 8:15 pm EST
Where: Zoom. Here's the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87476655364
Why...
What: A 1-Hour Meditation Class
When: Every Tuesday at 8:15 pm EST
Where: Zoom. Here's the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87476655364
Why...
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“Art’s weekly brain yoga sessions have become a grounding ritual for me. No matter how hectic or stressful my week is, this meetup gives me a space to slow down, be present, and reconnect with myself. I love the sense of community that forms each time we meet on Zoom, and the fact that it’s accessible and free makes it even more special. I genuinely recommend trying a class, you might be surprised by how much positivity it brings into your life!”
- Julie
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- Julie
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Benefit #1: Attention Training
Neuroscientific research shows our attention wanders about 50% of the time. Yes, you read that correctly. And this stat applies to everyone: NASA scientists, Lawyers, Doctors, Professional Athletes, Military Brass, and everyone in between. This includes you and me. 50%!!!
Whatever we pay attention to defines the quality of our entire lives. And the same research shows that being present and attending to the here and now is associated with more and deeper positive emotions.
At it's very core, mindfulness is about paying attention. So it can be said that mindfulness practices are attention training practices. Science shows it only takes about 15 minutes a day, 5 days a week doing such practices to make an enormous impact and see powerful impacts of the practices within weeks. During our talks, Art teaches the class how to practice mindfulness in the things we do all day, every day: walking, driving, cooking, eating, and brushing your teeth are just a few examples. When we weave practice into the most mundane aspects of our daily lives, it doesn't feel; like work at all, it takes no extra time out of our day, and the impacts become more deeply rooted and deliver profound results.
Whatever we pay attention to defines the quality of our entire lives. And the same research shows that being present and attending to the here and now is associated with more and deeper positive emotions.
At it's very core, mindfulness is about paying attention. So it can be said that mindfulness practices are attention training practices. Science shows it only takes about 15 minutes a day, 5 days a week doing such practices to make an enormous impact and see powerful impacts of the practices within weeks. During our talks, Art teaches the class how to practice mindfulness in the things we do all day, every day: walking, driving, cooking, eating, and brushing your teeth are just a few examples. When we weave practice into the most mundane aspects of our daily lives, it doesn't feel; like work at all, it takes no extra time out of our day, and the impacts become more deeply rooted and deliver profound results.
Click here to join on Tuesday at 8:15 pm EST: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87476655364
Benefit #2: AHHH- Get Your Chill On
Ahhhhh! Stress reduction!
Stress was what originally brought Art Burns to mindfulness practices, and he saw such deep and powerful impacts - he watched his body become healthy and his mind clear as he reduced the tension he experienced every day. The practices worked so well, Art decided to immediately seek certification to teach these life-saving practices and stress reduction has been a focus of his work for the past seven years since.
So come to class and prepare to relax. You are 100% free to keep your camera off and your mic muted, so no one will know if you fall asleep!
Stress was what originally brought Art Burns to mindfulness practices, and he saw such deep and powerful impacts - he watched his body become healthy and his mind clear as he reduced the tension he experienced every day. The practices worked so well, Art decided to immediately seek certification to teach these life-saving practices and stress reduction has been a focus of his work for the past seven years since.
So come to class and prepare to relax. You are 100% free to keep your camera off and your mic muted, so no one will know if you fall asleep!
Benefit #3: Community
There's no way this benefit belongs at the bottom of any conceivable list. The value of community and connection - which happen naturally and automatically when a small group of people join each other in Brain Yoga class, week after week. As we practice together, our hearts connect, even from so many miles away from each other. This relational aspect of class is just another form of mindfulness practice.
At all times, we are having both an intra- and an inter-personal experience. Cultivating community connection is a beautiful way to practice the latter.
At all times, we are having both an intra- and an inter-personal experience. Cultivating community connection is a beautiful way to practice the latter.
Click here to join on Tuesday at 8:15 pm EST: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87476655364
Click here to join on Tuesday at 8:15 pm EST: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87476655364
3 Common Mindfulness Meditation Myths:
Meditation is supposed to calm me down, but I don't want to lose my edge.
This is one of the most common misconceptions about meditation. But the truth is that meditation is really, at it's most fundamental level, about training our attention. And when we train our attention, it helps us in ALL areas of our life. Se we relax better, but we also work more effectively at whatever we need to do.
Meditation takes a lot of time, and I'm already too busy.
In the beginning, just like anything else, we need to invest a little time - 10 minutes a day - into our practice. But within a few weeks, we can bring the practice into our daily lives so the ten minutes in the morning is not so necessary.
Meditation requires a lot of expensive stuff.
Go to your local meta physical shop and they'll let you spend hundreds of dollars on all manner of cushions, gongs, chimes, oils, and incense. And if you enjoy that sort of stuff, by all means support your local spiritual shop. But not one of those things is necessary to do meditation. In fact, the only thing you ever need to do meditation is you. That's it. Wherever, whenever you are.
And you know what else is unnecessary? Spending $100+ per hour of instruction!
This is one of the most common misconceptions about meditation. But the truth is that meditation is really, at it's most fundamental level, about training our attention. And when we train our attention, it helps us in ALL areas of our life. Se we relax better, but we also work more effectively at whatever we need to do.
Meditation takes a lot of time, and I'm already too busy.
In the beginning, just like anything else, we need to invest a little time - 10 minutes a day - into our practice. But within a few weeks, we can bring the practice into our daily lives so the ten minutes in the morning is not so necessary.
Meditation requires a lot of expensive stuff.
Go to your local meta physical shop and they'll let you spend hundreds of dollars on all manner of cushions, gongs, chimes, oils, and incense. And if you enjoy that sort of stuff, by all means support your local spiritual shop. But not one of those things is necessary to do meditation. In fact, the only thing you ever need to do meditation is you. That's it. Wherever, whenever you are.
And you know what else is unnecessary? Spending $100+ per hour of instruction!
Click here to join on Tuesday at 8:15 pm EST: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87476655364
Meet Your Teacher
Art Burns is a Certified Emotional Regulation Coach and a Hockey Dad. He's also a Beer League Champion.
For most of his life, Art struggled with emotional stress and dysregulation that kept him not only from achieving his dreams, but kept him from his happiness. After a lifetime of coping through alcoholism, workaholism, and a whole bunch of other maladaptive mechanisms, Art finally turned inside for the solution. There he found the one truth that had always eluded him:
We can't control what happens to us in life. The only thing we can control is how we respond to what happens to us in life. This is where happiness and success reside.
Or, as Art's teacher and mentor, Jon Kabat-Zinn says: "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf."
Art's been living in Denver, Colorado, giving "emotional surfing lessons" to hockey players and Cancer patients for the last seven years. He lives with two cats and a 14U defenseman named Casey.
For most of his life, Art struggled with emotional stress and dysregulation that kept him not only from achieving his dreams, but kept him from his happiness. After a lifetime of coping through alcoholism, workaholism, and a whole bunch of other maladaptive mechanisms, Art finally turned inside for the solution. There he found the one truth that had always eluded him:
We can't control what happens to us in life. The only thing we can control is how we respond to what happens to us in life. This is where happiness and success reside.
Or, as Art's teacher and mentor, Jon Kabat-Zinn says: "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf."
Art's been living in Denver, Colorado, giving "emotional surfing lessons" to hockey players and Cancer patients for the last seven years. He lives with two cats and a 14U defenseman named Casey.