Our first women's circle was such a success! I am so elated to be able to gather us again for our FREE March circle and potluck.
Join me as we discover how mindfulness meditation can change our lives! You are invited to eat, pray, love with a group of amazing women!
We are so honored to have a SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER, Melissa Green!
Topic: Mindfulness as Self Exploration and Investigation:...
[read more] Our first women's circle was such a success! I am so elated to be able to gather us again for our FREE March circle and potluck.
Join me as we discover how mindfulness meditation can change our lives! You are invited to eat, pray, love with a group of amazing women!
We are so honored to have a SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER, Melissa Green!
Topic: Mindfulness as Self Exploration and Investigation: Realizing the Body, Mind, Heart and Spirit Connection to How You Show Up in the World
Our keynote speaker, Melissa Green, trained MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) teacher and co-founder of Dragonfly Healing Center will be covering mindfulness meditation as a tool to realizing the body, mind, heart, spirit connection and how this manifests in our world. Melissa will be discussing how mindfulness can be a life changing factor in how we take care of ourselves and actually find joy in our lives.
You will walk away awakened to your own awareness of the connection and integration of our holistic being.
Here is some of what you can expect, you’ll leave the night:
• Feeling Connected More To Your Self
• Feeling Relaxed, Renewed, Recharged
• Feeling Connected to other Fabulous Women
This is a free event, donations are welcome!
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About Mindfulness:
Mindfulness is a type of meditation that involves formal and informal practices. In formal practice, you take some amount of time everyday to stop and meditate. With informal practice, you allow the mindfulness practice to flow into all aspects of your everyday life.
Through research and studies of the effects of MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction), a multitude of benefits have been found. Mindfulness has been shown to transform emotions and lift the spirit; help decrease and alleviate several physical health symptoms and cope with pain in the body; increase brain functioning and cognitive attention abilities; and cultivate inner resources and resiliency that bring peace, joy, life balance and vitality.
Mindfulness is simply awareness, which in actuality is not so simple. Mindfulness requires that you intentionally pay attention to the present moment with an attitude of non-judgment. Mindfulness meditation is an embodied practice that cultivates a healthy relationship with the self. This personal and friendly relationship with yourself extends to create healthier relationships with others. Therefore, your personal practice of mindfulness may also change the communities in which you engage as well as expand and reach to affect the entire world.
Knowing yourself is powerful! And it is also a major challenge – quite possibly the most difficult work that you can implement. But what work is more important? Mindfulness cultivates the deep listening that is required to truly come to know your own self in body, mind, heart and spirit.
About Melissa Green:
Melissa Green, MS, MA has engaged in spiritual practices her entire life and has been meditating since 1996. Currently she teaches mindfulness meditations, self-care and self-awareness. She is a trained MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) teacher and a certified personal trainer. Her counseling degree from Santa Clara University includes a specialization in Health Psychology with a focus on Mindfulness. Melissa owns a wellness company centered on holistic health counseling for life balance and vitality, with emphases on stress management and mindfulness in corporate, educational, and health settings. She has also worked at the Process Therapy Institute in Los Gatos and the Community Center for Health and Wellness in Palo Alto.
Melissa challenges patterned thinking, while encouraging exploration “outside of the box” with further investigations in “creating our own boxes”. She finds a natural match in counseling and has a remarkable talent of viewing situations from multiple perspectives. Melissa is a bright and gentle, yet firm guide in seeking and exploring the tapestry of our lives. She is a passionate and caring partner to her clients in the journey of realizing their full human potential. She is sensitive to and supportive of investigations in culture and diversity and how they shape and contribute to our being. Melissa embraces the full spectrum of life and offers life skills and tools to enhance trust in our inner wisdom and increase our ability to live our true self that is aligned in body, mind and spirit.
Melissa is compelled to use her voice in empowering and uplifting others in realizing that we are so much more than our conditions. Being raised in a single-parent home below the poverty level in rural Alabama, Melissa embraced education and became the first in her family to go to college. She then trail-blazed her way to higher education and in 1998 became the first African-American to earn an advanced degree in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Notre Dame. Her pioneering thesis was “Developing a Human-Computer Interface to make Higher Education more Accessible to Physically Disabled Students”. She wrote an application that produced a voice-activated mouse; the research was recognized in Scientific American magazine.
With a heartfelt commitment of service to others, she shares inspiration, motivation, humor and compassion through her authentic way of being. Melissa has done extensive volunteer activities, especially with youth over most of her lifetime. She also has worked as an engineer, project manager and consultant in high tech fields. She has trekked around the world, interacting with diverse peoples and cultures and embarked on a two-year backpacking trip spanning over 40 countries. Melissa honors the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit while acknowledging the relationships among all things. She genuinely believes that light, beauty and wholeness are inherent in each of us. Let it shine!
Melissa received her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Alabama A&M University; Masters of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana; and Masters of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University.
She is nationally certified by the American Council on Exercise (ACE).
Melissa has an advanced degree in Life Experiences from the world!
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