Focus + Calm
4 Week Foundations Course
Upcoming Course
Monday Evenings
July 19 - August 9
7-8:30pm PT
Live Online via Zoom
Tuition = $349
Includes high-quality cushion + 2-month unlimited Pause membership ($165 value)!
Registration for our summer course is now closed. To receive an email when we publish the fall course dates, please click the button below.
Course Format
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4 live stream classes (once per week for 90 minutes for 4 weeks)
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Custom guided recordings for home practice each week
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Home practice manual with course materials
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Digital course platform with weekly mindful living exercises
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31 days of supported meditation + mindfulness practice
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Community interaction, accountability, and support
What People Are Saying About This Course
I always told myself I couldn't meditate. The Focus + Calm course was extremely helpful and now I have daily, fulfilling practice!
– Jen F.
Course Overview
In this course, you'll be guided through the foundations of mindfulness meditation, learn key tools and techniques, and establish the groundwork to begin your own meditation practice or deepen your current one.
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Feel calmer and less stressed
- Hone your focus
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Develop greater presence
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Learn tools and strategies to create a sustainable home practice
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Integrate daily mindful habits
How This Course Can Change Your Life
Through simple daily practices, you will begin to cultivate the following qualities within yourself:
Focus
Improve your concentration and capacity to live in the moment with what's most important to you
Inner Peace
Begin training your mind to lower stress levels and calm anxious or depressed mind-states
Balance
Learn to slow down, find your center, and respond to the waves of daily life with greater ease
Intention
Learn to disengage autopilot and shape the life you want with purpose and direction
Presence
Tune-in to what is happening in each moment of your life with greater awareness and connection
Excellent Value
4 educational and experiential 90 minute classes
31 days of ongoing, supported meditation + mindfulness practice
Expert meditation instruction from a seasoned professional
Custom guided recordings for weekly home practice
Digital course platform with readings and exercises
Ongoing mindfulness coaching + feedback
Community interaction, accountability, and support
You'll Also Receive These Special Bonuses
Total added value of $165!
HIGH QUALITY
HUGGER-MUGGER
MEDITATION CUSHION
Choose a black or aqua cushion.
Value of $65 - yours to keep!
PAUSE LIVE STREAM UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP FOR TWO
FULL MONTHS
Value of $100
BONUS #1
BONUS #2
Course Curriculum
The Focus + Calm curriculum is science-based and developed by a mental health professional.
"Our networks of attention are our foremost means to shaping our lives; these networks give us extraordinary ways to master ourselves and our environment, offering the key to growth, connection, happiness.”
- Maggie Jackson
Focus + Calm: The Science
Evidence of Attentional Expertise in Long-Term Meditators
When MRI brain scans were taken of long-term meditators, the results showed that their brain regions associated with sustained attention and concentration were more activated than those of novice meditators. Read Full Study
Meditation Can Reduce Anxiety/Stress Reactivity and Promote Calm
One mindfulness study included 93 people with generalized anxiety disorder. This disorder causes exaggerated worry and tension over many different things, even when there is little or nothing to provoke it. At the end of the study, consistent meditation practice was associated with a significantly greater reduction in anxiety. Read Full Study
Mindfulness and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Changes in trait (or baseline) mindfulness are evident in pre- to post intervention studies of mindfulness training suggesting that mindfulness training may be a useful complementary tool for improving ADHD. Read Full Study
Advanced Neuroimaging and Focused-Attention Meditation
Neuroimagery and other technologies have helped scientists understand the cycle of events that unfolds in the brain during the practice of focused-attention meditation and specifically which areas of the brain are activated. View Diagram
Join the Course Today
Monday Evenings
July 19 - August 9
7-8:30pm PT
Live Online via Zoom
Tuition = $349
Includes high-quality cushion + 2-month unlimited Pause membership ($165 value)!
Registration for our summer course is now closed. To receive an email when we publish the fall course dates, please click the button below.
Questions?
We'd love to talk with you.
Email:
Phone: 503.343.4831