Mindfulness

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Workshops & Events

Workshop

Costa Rica Week 6: Effortless Mindfulness...

  • Mar 09 - Mar 16 2019
  • Costa Rica
In week 6, learn to shift into effortless, embodied mindfulness so you can more deeply enjoy every moment of your life with Loch Kelly. Awakening is learnable and available as the next natural stage of human development. Discover how to access your effortless, awake nature and know the intelligence of your body from wi ... Learn More
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How to Tame Our Craving Minds 

  • May 31 - Jun 02 2019
  • Rhinebeck, NY
Try this simple process with Judson Brewer to help you break a habit. We are all vulnerable to craving. Whether it’s a compulsion to check social media, binge eat, smoke, drink, feed anxious worry thought loops, or any other behavior we may find ourselves uncontrollably repeating. Join psychiatrist ... Learn More
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in...

  • Jun 02 - Jun 09 2019
  • Rhinebeck, NY
This comprehensive program offers healthcare and other professionals an opportunity to come together under the direct guidance of foundational leaders in the practice and science of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Participants engage with mindfulness practices and their direct application personally and professionally. Through ... Learn More
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The Ruby

  • Jun 16 - Jun 21 2019
  • Rhinebeck, NY
We have a treasure within us. We were born with it. Yet, much of the time it seems like we have forgotten our true inheritance. We walk around as if we are poor while closer to us than our breath is a treasury—sometimes referred to by the Sufis as the ruby. Reclaiming this jewel will cost us a lot—some say everything. Rumi refers t ... Learn More
Scholarship
Conference

Mindfulness & Education Conference

  • Jul 12 - Jul 14 2019
  • Rhinebeck, NY
The practices of mindfulness, contemplative education, and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) are now being widely explored in schools throughout the United States and other countries. Extensive research has shown that mindfulness practices and SEL decrease stress, attention deficit issues, depression, anxiety, and hostility in children, ... Learn More
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Framework for Mindful Living

  • Jul 14 - Jul 19 2019
  • Rhinebeck, NY
Have you felt an inner call to approach your life with more wisdom, skill, and compassion? Have you wished to engage your mind and body in ways that can support greater clarity and resilience? Are you interested in learning about and addressing root causes of stress that can make a difference in your life and the lives of students, patien ... Learn More
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Mindfulness in Education Teacher Training

  • Jul 21 - Jul 26 2019
  • Rhinebeck, NY
Research shows that students and teachers in school systems that have adopted mindfulness are happier, more focused, more compassionate, and less impacted by stress. What school would pass up a chance to raise test scores, have fewer playground fights, and cultivate a more peaceful learning environment? This training helps us gain the ... Learn More
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Meeting in the Heart

  • Aug 18 - Aug 23 2019
  • Rhinebeck, NY
“When you start singing from your heart, it changes the phrases.” —Jennifer Lopez As humans, we are relational beings. From our earliest days, our survival depends on care from and connection with others. Arising from multiple factors, our relationships offer sustenance and sorrow, stress and solace, joy, and vulnerability, and c ... Learn More
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Decolonizing Our Hearts, Minds & Movements

  • Aug 18 - Aug 23 2019
  • Rhinebeck, NY
Colonization is pervasive, but for Indigenous, Black, and Latinx Peoples the impacts of genocide, slavery, appropriation of traditional culture, loss of cultural identity, and the loss of and removal from ancestral lands remain. Traumatic memories are encoded in every one of us, and the stigma of our refusal to assimilate is always pre ... Learn More
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in...

  • Sep 29 - Oct 04 2019
  • Rhinebeck, NY
Acceptance and mindfulness-based practices are rapidly making their way into mental health care, medicine, and society. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a newer evidence-based approach that offers empowering solutions to the problem of human suffering. ACT seeks to transform the root sources of human suffering by balancing mi ... Learn More
Scholarship
Workshop

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Insight...

  • Oct 04 - Oct 11 2019
  • Rhinebeck, NY
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is accessible while it is grounded in wisdom principles that support increased awareness of and investigation into the causes of stress. Led by MBSR teachers who are leaders in the field, this 7-day silent retreat explores, through direct experience, the deep roots that inform MBSR. Through mindfu ... Learn More

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Working With Bias Through Storytelling

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Scholarship Recipients Bring Mindfulness to School

Press Release

Omega’s 10th Annual Mindfulness & Education Conference Draws Influential Leaders in the Field

June 20, 2018
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Trauma Is Always Political

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A Mindful Approach to Lyme Disease

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Feeling Anxious? You're Not Alone

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Mindful Teachers Make Mindful Students

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Cultivating Calm Clarity

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Mindfulness & Self-Compassion Work Together

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Taking Mindfulness to Heart

Video

Allowing Anger

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Press Release

Omega Expands Reach Beyond Its Hudson Valley Home With New Strategic Direction & Year-Round Membership Opportunity

May 02, 2018