Mindfulness classes and Events

What Sheree and Somatic Rehabilitation offer

An experienced mindfulness practitioner since becoming a student of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy in 2003,  Sheree offers mindfulness classes Pathway to the Present Moment, Mindfulness for Seniors and Mindfulness for Perimenopause and Beyond.

An experienced mindfulness practitioner, Sheree has developed her capacity for mindfulness and mindful awareness to a high degree.  Mindfulness is a core part of her life and work.

Why the emphasis on mindfulness

When we are experiencing difficulty in our life, we need to understand more about what might be going on for us.  If we can study our own experience, using mindfulness to do that, we will likely find some new information about ourselves.

Mindfulness can allow us to see ourselves in action and to bring a closer focus to what we see.

If we can do this, we may be able to use the information we find there to create change.

How does this work?

To make the change we might be seeking, we need to be able to observe ourselves.  Learning mindfulness as we use it in Hakomi, we are working to develop the Observer part of the brain. 

Research shows that if we can practise mindfulness daily for eight weeks, we will have created a new neural pathway in the brain.

This pathway can be developed and refined throughout life, and the more it is used, the more it grows to become an important tool for living life usefully and deliberately.

What exactly is mindfulness?

As with studies in consciousness, science is yet to identify with any real precision what mindfulness actually is.

Some refer to a state of particular awareness, some refer to a process of specific attention and focus. Others believe mindfulness to be a meditative process.

Mindfulness, as Sheree understands it, can become an important tool for managing stress, pain and illness, relationship and family difficulties, anxiety and depression.

MRI imaging and research has demonstrated that mindfulness is not meditation: different parts of the brain are used during mindfulness practice. 

Mindfulness, as it is used in Hakomi, is a tool used to increase awareness of ourselves and bring our attention into the present moment, whereby we can study what is happening for us.

We apply mindfulness to ourselves in the present moment, using specific tools to do so.

Classes

Mindfulness tuition: Pathway to the Present Moment

Mindfulness for Seniors: Mindfulness tailored to senior needs

Mindfulness for Perimenopause and Beyond