Mindfulness Meditation Book Club
December 17, 2024 February 25, 2025
SERIES OF CLASSES
Total # of Classes
9
Class length
60 minutes
Location
Online
Kick off your new year with mindfulness! Join us for a book/meditation club. We will be reading the book titled, "Mindfulness" by Mark Williams and Danny Penman. This book comes with audio recordings of guided mindfulness meditations - a new meditation for each week - in addition to other mindful activities and "habit releasers".
Schedule:
December 17th - kick of Zoom meeting to come together as a group and lay the framework for what to expect. This meeting will be recorded if you can't attend.
Read chapters 1-4. Chapters 1-4 cover the science of mindfulness meditation and cover the background for what to expect from the eight weeks of meditation. You can read these prior to January 1st and/or at any time over the 8 weeks of meditation.
January 1st - start meditating.
January 1-7
Read chapter 5.
Complete the Raisin meditation.
Choose a daily activity to practice with mindful awareness.
Listen to the Mindfulness of Body and Breath meditation daily (or twice a day).
Choose a habit releaser.
January 7th - Zoom meeting to share experiences of week 1 and regroup for week 2
January 8 - 14
Read chapter 6.
Listen to the Body Scan meditation daily (or twice a day).
Choose a new daily activity to practice with mindful awareness.
Habit releaser - 15 minute mindful walk.
January 14th - Zoom meeting to share experiences of week 2 and regroup for week 3
January 15-21
Read chapter 7.
Practice 8 minutes of Mindful Movement meditation followed by 8 minutes of Breath and Body meditation.
Practice 3-minute Breathing Space meditation.
Habit Releaser - valuing the television
January 21st - Zoom meeting to share experiences of week 3 and regroup for week 4
January 22-28
Read chapter 8.
Complete week 4 practices (pg 143 of book).
January 28th - Zoom meeting to share experiences of week 4 and regroup for week 5
January 29 - February 4
Read chapter 9.
Complete week 5 practices (pg 170)
February 4 - Zoom meeting to share experiences of week 5 and regroup for week 6
February 5 - 11
Read chapter 10.
Complete week 6 practices (pg 197)
February 11 - Zoom meeting to share experiences of week 6 and regroup for week 7
February 12-18
Read chapter 11.
Complete week 7 practices (pg 227)
February 18 - Zoom meeting to share experiences of week 7 and regroup for week 8
February 18-25
Read chapter 12.
What does mindfulness look like from here? ( see pg 244-245)
February 25 - Final Zoom meeting to share experiences of week 8!
The class takes place on...
- December 17 at 7:45 pm (Tuesday)
- January 7 at 7:45 pm (Tuesday)
- January 14 at 7:45 pm (Tuesday)
- January 21 at 7:45 pm (Tuesday)
- January 28 at 7:45 pm (Tuesday)
- February 4 at 7:45 pm (Tuesday)
- February 11 at 7:45 pm (Tuesday)
- February 18 at 7:45 pm (Tuesday)
- February 25 at 7:45 pm (Tuesday)