How to Begin
Beginning can be the hardest part to practicing mindfulness. Learn how to begin and maintain a regular self-care practice.
overcome obstacles
Overcome obstacles in your life to create a new habit of prioritizing self-care.
Live with authenticity
Almost half our lives can be lived on auto-pilot. Discover how to live life as if it really matters.
Because it does.
Build Self-Compassion
Science proves self-compassion makes us more resilient to stress. Learn how to be gentle to yourself without losing your edge.
Live Online 4-week Course
Winter 2021 Course
Enjoy learning from the comfort of home
Wednesday evenings, 5:30-7:00PM (CST)
February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 2021
Location: Classes meet on Zoom– Virtual Live Online Meeting Software. (High-speed internet connection is required. In order to have the most supportive experience, please use a laptop or desktop with speaker, microphone, and video capability:
please, no phones.)
Minimum/Maximum: 12 / 20
Tuition: $75 per person
Registration Deadline: February 10, 2021

If you’re curious about learning how to meditate and begin an on-going, personal mindfulness practice, come join this experiential educational class. Discover the healing power of mindfulness by learning various meditation and breathing techniques, mindful movement, and self-compassion. Uncover the power of the present moment to respond to life more deliberately and access your own authority and authenticity. No prior meditation experience necessary and no floor sitting is required. Lead by Allison Peet, a Certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) instructor, registered yoga teacher and Buteyko Breathing Method teacher in training.
Daily home practice assignments will be offered and encouraged. We will sometimes use a free meditation app called Insight Timer, which will require you to download to your smartphone. Participants must have a smart phone to have access to this app. It is strongly encouraged that participants spend anywhere from 5-20 minutes per day practicing formal meditation on the 6 days in between our live meetings.
Objectives
Learn how to meditate and integrate a more wakeful presence in your daily life.
Increase mental performance and emotional intelligence.
Cultivate a sense of self-compassion and gentleness…in other words, how not to be such a jerk to yourself!
Outcomes
Develop internal psychological resources for stress resilience.
Overcome obstacles to a regular mindfulness meditation practice.
Experience a quieter mind.
Learn mindfulness meditation
Lead by an experienced, certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Instructor, you will have full access during your program to support
your practice.
Experience a sense of ease
Mindfulness practice increases mental performance and allows us to respond creatively to stressors rather than react habitually.
Working with your mind
Learn how to work with difficult thoughts and emotions and tame your internal self-critic.
About Your Instructor
Allison Peet is a certified MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) Instructor trained at UMass Center for Mindfulness, founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD and the Mindfulness Center at Brown University. She is trained through Mindful Schools and teaches mindfulness to youth, K-12 and is also a certified yoga instructor. She’s taught since 2015. Hundreds have graduated the course that have reduced perceived toxic stress levels an average of 34%. Of those graduates, 80% lowered their stress levels. She’s completed multiple week-long silent meditation retreats and has a daily practice. Allison has a personal path of living and working with chronic stress and anxiety which is why she started her own business in 2015, From Within Wellness, LLC, to benefit others. She is committed to creating a more mindful community by helping people develop pragmatic life skills in attentional strength, present moment awareness, self-compassion, and stress resiliency.