WEEKLY OPPORTUNITIES FOR PRACTICE
Join us for weekly drop-in sessions to help you reconnect with your body, mind, and emotions. Learn techniques, including mindfulness and yoga, for increasing our capacity to be reflective, strengthen our resilience, and improve our relationships with others.
** NEW **
Offered every Thursday, 12:10 - 12:50 pm from June 3, 2021 - August 12, 2021.
These mindful moments sessions are open to all staff, students, and faculty. It is 45 minutes with 5-10 minutes at the beginning and end of the session for informal sharing and questions, allowing students some flexibility in arriving and departing. The session includes a short introduction, 20-30 minutes of practice (breath meditation, body scan, mindful walking or movement, compassion and loving kindness, and gratitude practices), sharing, Q&A, and discussion about stress management, benefits of mindfulness meditation, and latest research findings about mindfulness in mental health, including physiology and neuroscience.
You can also listen to our Recorded Sessions.
This 30-minute meditation/yoga session is open to all members of the OISE community. Participants may discover rejuvenation as well as ease as they start their day and week with practices of gentle yoga, mindfulness and meditation, meaningful discussion and sharing. As participants may have classes or meetings scheduled, they may arrive or depart quietly and respectfully during the session.
Monday Mantra
Facilitator: Ellen Jamieson
Monday | 12:15 - 12:45pm | Get Meeting Details (You will be required to sign in using your UTORid).
Cultivate Mindfulness Practices for Resiliency and Peace. Join Ellen for weekly drop-in sessions grounded in holistic approaches to mental health and wellness.
Feb. 8: Gratitude
Feb. 15: Compassion (3:15-3:45pm)*
Feb. 22: Nourishment & Mindful Eating (3:15-3:45pm)*
Mar. 1: Body Image (3:15-3:45pm)*
Mar. 8: Movement (3:15-3:45pm)*
Mar. 22: Journaling & Mantras
Mar. 29: Breath
*note: time change during 4 weeks of practicum
What to expect at a mindfulness session: Mini Monday Mantra Video
This session is sponsored by ORSS
Coming Home to Ourselves: Mindfulness for Navigating Change
Facilitator: Shalyn Isaacs
Offered every Tuesdays | 12:30-1:00pm | Get Meeting Details
Change is an inevitable part of our daily experiences. This meditation will help us cultivate a sense of mindfulness, present-moment awareness, and compassion to help us feel grounded within our bodies and prepared to engage with the dynamics of change without becoming overwhelmed. This mindfulness meditation series focuses on creating a sense of inner security as we navigate change in our daily lives and learn to create a space within ourselves where different emotional experiences can be held with compassion and curiosity. No matter what changes are happening in our lives, we can use mindfulness meditation to create a safe home within our bodies that we can feel securely grounded in. The mindfulness skills students will learn can help them experience greater inner freedom, emotional regulation, stability, and choice.
This session is sponsored by ORSS
Stop, Stretch, & Soul
Faciliator: Ellen Jamieson
**Please note this session will not be running Feb 16-Mar 12
Wednesdays | 12:15-12:45pm | Get Meeting Details
Take a moment to nourish your body, mind, and soul with some gentle yoga in between Zooms. These sessions will stretch and strengthen your spine and soothe your stress so you can get back to studying! No yoga experience required and sessions will accommodate for small spaces. Everyone is welcome!
This session is sponsored by ORSS
Mindfulness for Cultivating Compassion
Facilitator: Shalyn Isaacs
Thursdays | 4:00-4:30pm | Get Meeting Details
This mindfulness meditation series is focused on using mindfulness to cultivate a sense of compassion for ourselves and others. Through living in a society that values production and external achievement at the expense of emotional and physical well-being, it can feel counterintuitive to experience compassion for ourselves, other people, and sentient beings. We will be using this mindfulness meditation practice to explore what compassion looks and feels like in our bodies, and ways we can feel and practice compassion for ourselves, our communities, nature, and all sentient beings in order to take small but important steps towards creating a more compassionate society.
This session is sponsored by ORSS
