Neuroscience and Mindfulness:
How Slowing Down Heals
This workshop is ONSITE
Course Description:
The workshop will include slow mindful movement, body scanning, mindfulness meditation and walking meditation.
The yogis of yore knew that slow movement as well as the attention-training techniques of meditation have profoundly positive effects on the mind and body, including:
– Better sleep
– Improved digestion
– Increased energy
– Improved mood and emotional regulation
– Decrease in negative thought patterns associated with anxiety and depression
– Increased calmness through the activation of the ‘Rest and Digest’ response
– Improved relationships through activation of the ‘Tend and Befriend’ branch of the nervous
system
– Better focus, concentration and memory
During this session, you will develop the skill of interoception, noticing subtle sensations in the body, which is associated with enhanced wellbeing. An outdoor walking meditation practice will be included, weather permitting. You will also learn easy lifestyle tweaks and self-care tips to reset your nervous system when you feel upset or overwhelmed. The ‘science’ will be layered through the practices, facilitating a learn-by-doing experience.
With over 20 years experience teaching yoga and training yoga teachers, Paula will guide you with her special blend of knowledge, expert cues and gentle compassion.
If you want to calm your nervous system, optimize brain function and improve physical healing, don’t miss this unique workshop.
Day & Date: Saturday 22nd April 2023
Duration: 3 hours
Time: 2 pm – 5 pm
Price: €35.00
- About The Facilitator
- Paula Flood is a registered Senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga
Alliance Professionals UK. Paula has been practising yoga
since the mid-nineties and teaching for over 20 years. She has
completed various trainings including in hatha and prenatal
yoga, mindfulness, yoga therapy and yoga anatomy. Recently
Paula has completed several courses exploring the
neuroscience of slow movement and mindfulness.
I have been involved in yoga teacher training for over 20 years
and am grateful to share my love of yoga and meditation with
students at all levels’, writes Paula.
Paula shares her deep knowledge of yoga and varied teaching
experience in a way that is both engaging and practical. Her
workshops are both grounding and uplifting.
Paula meditates regularly and also teaches meditation at the
Dublin Sri Chinmoy centre. Paula is the founder of Om Yoga, a
boutique studio in Dublin 7.

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