Mindfulness
Living more mindfully, dealing better with stress and brooding thoughts
Mindfulness originated from a combination of Eastern meditation techniques and Western scientific knowledge*. In daily life, it helps you relax more and make choices that are good for you.
The actions you take in daily life are prompted from your thinking and feeling. They are mostly unconscious automatic patterns that often help, but sometimes not. Feeling stressed or gloomy or brooding is an effect of an unconscious automatic pattern that doesn't help you. Practicing mindfulness teaches you to recognise those patterns, giving you more control over your emotions, feelings and behaviour. With mindfulness practice, you improve your health and get practical tools for a relaxed and energetic daily life.
Even if you do not experience stress or anxiety, you are welcome to attend mindfulness classes. Would you like to learn to meditate, deepen your meditation experience or are you just curious about what mindfulness is? The class is open to everyone. Feel especially welcome.
Class will be held from Tuesday, 7 January 2025, from 20:45 - 21:45 in studio 2.
Mindfulness classes at Sportcentrum VU consist of a mix of meditations, mindful yoga [hatha yoga], psycho-education and insightful mindfulness exercises. Each class is built around a specific theme such as breathing, stress or thoughts.
The classes are designed to connect more deeply with yourself. They relax, inspire and encourage change and the beauty is, you don't have to do much for this.
Bringing a curious open mind is enough.
What do you need?
For mindfulness, you don't need much.
It is nice to wear comfortable clothes and have a water bottle with you. Bring your own yoga mat, towel and possibly a meditation cushion.
If you don't have a meditation cushion, that's totally fine too.
Do you like to sit on a chair in mindfulness class? VU Sports Centre chairs are available at the studio.