Take a Moment for You
Join Certified Coach and Teacher, Art Burns, and a group of loving and supportive humans who share your experience with cancer, for a drop in mindfulness session.
We start each session with holding space for five minutes for anyone who may be running late. We welcome them with love and support and without the slightest judgment.
Once everyone is settled, your mindfulness trainer will offer a brief introduction to the day's guided meditation. These meditations will vary in focus, from the simple, powerful exercise of grounding into our senses, to a practice of self compassion, with many other forms in between.
Once we have finished our guided meditation, Art will expand upon the topic with a few words meant to prompt an open and healing conversation among the group. We'll stay for about an hour and then say good bye.
We offer at least one session every day and the suggested donation for each person is $5.
We start each session with holding space for five minutes for anyone who may be running late. We welcome them with love and support and without the slightest judgment.
Once everyone is settled, your mindfulness trainer will offer a brief introduction to the day's guided meditation. These meditations will vary in focus, from the simple, powerful exercise of grounding into our senses, to a practice of self compassion, with many other forms in between.
Once we have finished our guided meditation, Art will expand upon the topic with a few words meant to prompt an open and healing conversation among the group. We'll stay for about an hour and then say good bye.
We offer at least one session every day and the suggested donation for each person is $5.
Blending Science and Spirituality for Healing
Art draws on experience and knowledge of both Eastern and Western religions, as well as years of training in neuroscience and psychology. The result is a thorough and integrated approach to accessing the tools we all have to bring comfort and healing to our bodies, our emotions, and our thoughts.
It is important to recognize that 'Healing' does not necessarily mean 'Cured.' When we acknowledge this we are able to approach our condition with love and compassion, no matter our prognosis.
It is important to recognize that 'Healing' does not necessarily mean 'Cured.' When we acknowledge this we are able to approach our condition with love and compassion, no matter our prognosis.
Schedule of Sessions
Find the day and time that works for you on the calendar pages below. Please note each day has all four US time zones listed. Once you click the day you want to join, it will bring you right to the zoom meeting. As soon as I start the meeting, I'll let you in. No need to register! And the same link will work from week to week. Any questions? Please email me at [email protected]
During the meeting, I'll share a venmo link, should you wish to make a donation.
The same zoom link will work for all sessions. So click the button below (bookmark it for later) at the time of the meeting and we'll let you right in.
ANY questions: [email protected]
During the meeting, I'll share a venmo link, should you wish to make a donation.
The same zoom link will work for all sessions. So click the button below (bookmark it for later) at the time of the meeting and we'll let you right in.
ANY questions: [email protected]
Click on the Meeting You'd Like to Join
Why Mindfulness?
I don't know if there's enough room in all of cyberspace to adequately explain all the benefits mindfulness can have on the human body and the human life. And when it comes to someone going through a huge experience like cancer, these benefits bloom even bigger.
So really, the question is: How does mindfulness help cancer patients?
In my experience, it all starts with the emotions. Even before diagnosis; from the moment you suspected something might be wrong and that you should make an appointment; or the look on your PCP's face as he suggested you see a specialist; from whatever the initial spark of the journey - and right through treatment and beyond - every cancer patient goes through emotional storms that swing from manageable to overwhelming and back again. The mindfulness skills you'll develop in these drop-in classes will help you to even out the highs and lows and maintain a more loving and attentive relationship with your emotions - as opposed to your emotions feeling like you're riding backwards on a horse.
The next benefit, I believe, lies in our relationship to our thoughts. As we experience the day to day reality of cancer, the thoughts that arise in our minds can be very powerful. They can also be very negative, pessimistic, and catastrophic. These negative thoughts become a negative story in our minds. The trouble is, there is part of our brain that believes the story and responds as the story were actually already happening. And the only way the body knows how to respond is through the stress response. For some, this stress response looks like the typical hyper-arousal with the racing heart and the tension in our chest and face; for others, it looks more like hypo-arousal, like a depressed state. The trouble is that either one of these stress responses has a major impact on your body - an impact you, a cancer patient, really don't need.
Which brings me to benefit #3/3,000,000,000: The Mindfulness practices you'll do in these drop-in sessions will have an enormous and positive impact on your body. None of these benefits are without research to back them up. But this one? This one has been studied to the point of exhaustion. Seriously, I could never site all the different studies showing all the different physical benefits of mindfulness. I'm not saying it's a miracle cure, but mindfulness will bring a physical regulation to your body that will help you in all aspects of the cancer journey. Whether giving your body the strength to fight the cancer, or giving your body the strength to manage chemo, radiation or surgery - or all of the above! - mindfulness can only help.
And if you give me a half hour or so, a few times a week, you will realize all these benefits and more.
What have you got to lose?
The suggested donation for each session is $10, but you can come without any donation at all. You. You are welcome here.
So really, the question is: How does mindfulness help cancer patients?
In my experience, it all starts with the emotions. Even before diagnosis; from the moment you suspected something might be wrong and that you should make an appointment; or the look on your PCP's face as he suggested you see a specialist; from whatever the initial spark of the journey - and right through treatment and beyond - every cancer patient goes through emotional storms that swing from manageable to overwhelming and back again. The mindfulness skills you'll develop in these drop-in classes will help you to even out the highs and lows and maintain a more loving and attentive relationship with your emotions - as opposed to your emotions feeling like you're riding backwards on a horse.
The next benefit, I believe, lies in our relationship to our thoughts. As we experience the day to day reality of cancer, the thoughts that arise in our minds can be very powerful. They can also be very negative, pessimistic, and catastrophic. These negative thoughts become a negative story in our minds. The trouble is, there is part of our brain that believes the story and responds as the story were actually already happening. And the only way the body knows how to respond is through the stress response. For some, this stress response looks like the typical hyper-arousal with the racing heart and the tension in our chest and face; for others, it looks more like hypo-arousal, like a depressed state. The trouble is that either one of these stress responses has a major impact on your body - an impact you, a cancer patient, really don't need.
Which brings me to benefit #3/3,000,000,000: The Mindfulness practices you'll do in these drop-in sessions will have an enormous and positive impact on your body. None of these benefits are without research to back them up. But this one? This one has been studied to the point of exhaustion. Seriously, I could never site all the different studies showing all the different physical benefits of mindfulness. I'm not saying it's a miracle cure, but mindfulness will bring a physical regulation to your body that will help you in all aspects of the cancer journey. Whether giving your body the strength to fight the cancer, or giving your body the strength to manage chemo, radiation or surgery - or all of the above! - mindfulness can only help.
And if you give me a half hour or so, a few times a week, you will realize all these benefits and more.
What have you got to lose?
The suggested donation for each session is $10, but you can come without any donation at all. You. You are welcome here.
Have Questions?
If you'd like to book a FREE 1:1 consultation with Art, please click here to schedule:
Meet Your Coach
While working in the area of stress reduction over the past five years, Art has had the distinct honor and pleasure to work with several cancer patients in varying stages, forms, and prognosis. Some were in remission and/or post op. Some were in treatment. And some were terminal. The one thing they ALL had in common? Every single one of these people said they wish they'd known about the practices of mindfulness before they got sick. Every one of them believed these practices might have prevented their cancer, or at least changed the trajectory of their experience with cancer.
Art took this as a calling.
Knowing how these practices can benefit cancer patients achieve physical, emotional, and cognitive comfort, Art has dedicated himself to providing a safe and effective process specifically designed for cancer patients.
Please join us.
Art took this as a calling.
Knowing how these practices can benefit cancer patients achieve physical, emotional, and cognitive comfort, Art has dedicated himself to providing a safe and effective process specifically designed for cancer patients.
Please join us.