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mPEAK

mPEAK (Mindful Performance Enhancement, Awareness & Knowledge) is an intensive 8-week mindfulness training program designed for individuals who seek to achieve personal and professional goals, improve performance and enhance success in all parts of your life. 

About mPEAK

When you’re feeling the weight of the world, burn-out, stress, anxiety, poor sleep, perfectionism, and wanting to reach your goals without maxing yourself out or getting sick, it’s a challenge to be mindful. Most people, and I bet you can relate, feel so busy and as if you don’t have enough time to do what you need to do. This is exactly when you need to slow down, breathe, and learn how to master mindfulness.  

Ease in Motion offers an 8-week mPeak Course to help you be fully present in life and master the benefits of mindfulness. 

mPEAK (Mindful Performance Enhancement, Awareness & Knowledge) will benefit you when you are committed to improving your performance in life, work, or sport.

Whether you’re a parent, college student, athlete, in a position of high stress, or recently retired, this will change the way you approach stress and suffering in your life and give you simple life-changing tools to positively impact your life.

 

Is mPEAK for you?

The foundation of this cutting-edge program is drawn from the highly respected Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program and the latest brain research related to peak performance, resilience, focus, and flow and will help you reduce the feeling of burn-out. 

This course is for you when you’re a beginner or an experienced meditation and mindfulness practitioner who 

 

Stretches yourself towards excellence

Sets big goals

Faces consistent challenges

You will experience techniques to:

  • Develop greater FOCUS and CONCENTRATION 
  • Discover how to prime for “FLOW STATES” during performance events and everyday life 
  • Learn to be in the PRESENT MOMENT 
  • LET GO of the attachment to outcomes 
  • RESPOND rather than react to stress/fear 
  • Increase RESILIENCE 
  • MANAGE physical and emotional pain 
  • RECOGNIZE the inner critic and shift to compassionate inner self-talk
  • PROCESS and LEARN from mistakes and failures

mPEAK Curriculum

Week 1

Intro to Mindfulness & Performance

You will explore:

  • Foundational principles of mindfulness and performance
  • Mindful eating to improve your health
  • Body Scan techniques to help you be present, aware, and manage your energy during times of stress and anxiety so your body is a safe refuge

Week 2

Interoceptive Resilience

You’ll become familiar with: 

  • Recognition and regulation of the sensations of stress and performance anxiety
  • Impact of Stress on Performance & how Mindfulness can assist with Performance Anxiety
  • Breathing Practices and Mindful Movement Tools for reduction of anxiety and stress 

Week 3

Performance Stories 

You will learn:

  • Recognition and regulation of unhelpful thinking and mind wandering
  • Awareness of breath to help you be calm, centered, and proactive instead of reactive 
  • Shifting Performance Stories to align with reality instead of projections to experience the benefits  of  increased resilience and growth mindset

Week 4

Priming for Flow 

You will focus on:

  • Techniques to help you get out of your own way 
  • 5 Foundational attitudes of mPEAK that offer a doorway into flow - “being in your zone” 
  • Creating/or Understanding the distinction between deliberate and spontaneous mindfulness to find your flow and zone of genius

Week 5

Working with Pain & Difficulty

You will focus on:

  • Allowing physical or emotional pain rather than distracting, avoiding, or repressing
  • The science of Mindfulness and Pain
  • R.A.I.N. practice

Week 6

Self-Compassion + Your Inner Coaches 

You’ll become familiar with:

  • Cultivating self-awareness to activate your compassionate coach instead of your  critical inner self-talk which is often on auto-pilot 
  • The balance and contrast of the Yin & Yang of your compassionate coach (nurturing and fierce)
  • The cost and benefits of perfectionism and how self-compassion helps you meet your goals with less stress and reactivity

Week 7

Practicing Positivity 

You’ll give energy to:

  • Practicing gratitude and leveraging personal character strengths without becoming attached or identified
  • Mindful movement to experience more focus, presence, and tap into your flow state
  • The science of gratitude and how it can sustain reductions in perceived stress and depression as well as:  reduce biomarkers of inflammation, lower blood pressure and improve your sleep quality. 

Week 8

Living Mindfully 

You will embody:

  • Applying a mindful approach to goal setting and learn how that can offer a sense of direction, motivation, flow and purpose
  • Cultivating values-based goals to support your ideal life  
  • Creating space and tips for maintaining your mindfulness practice beyond class so you continue to thrive

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