A Year of Mindful Living - in Warburton, Yarra Valley

A weekly community yoga class, an eight week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and an eight week Mindful Self-Care course, plus monthly weekend Mindfulness events held over twelve months.

Programs will be held at various times and days and at very low cost (free or by donation) to increase accessibility, community connectedness, and mindful healthy lifestyle skills and engagement inclusively for our broader community.

The programs will be open to all residents and visitors to the Upper Yarra, with specific focus on making programs inviting and easily accessible to people who otherwise would find access difficult (i.e. members of demographics as identified)

Mindfulness training has been shown to provide often lasting benefit, by reducing symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress-related illness and chronic pain; and in improving life-satisfaction, relationships and working/recreational life.

However such training is often far less accessible to those in regional areas and on a low income.

Offering a year of low cost/free programs in this way will increase accessibility to mindfulness skills, and the opportunity for people to consolidate mindful-living skills over the course of a year. Providing lasting benefits for many members of our community and cultivating/further developing resources for mindful-living in our region.