A Mindfulness Center in the Midwest: Seven Years and Embracing Impermanence
After seven years of joyful service as a mindfulness and meditation center MAM is coming to a close, but our community continues on.
Entries by OPS
Remembering Cathan
In loving memory of Cathan Kabrelian, a beloved teacher of the Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness community who passed away in 2024
Something is Emerging
During this particularly dynamic time in history we’re sharing creative contemplative offerings emerging to help us metabolize each moment
Mindful Lessons from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Shane, our resident pop culture expert explores mindful lessons in the holiday themed film Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Jellybeans on a Stormy Day: Finding Balance in Practice and Life
How sorting jellybeans on a storming day acted as a reminder of the importance of finding a balance of effort and ease in practice and in life
Meeting Our Needs for Togetherness
How will we meet our needs for togetherness and community mindfulness practice within a post-pandemic social context?
Ways of Knowing: The Yuck is Not in the Raisin
How the raisin exercise helped mindfulness teacher Tracy Ochester start to understand her experience through new ways of being and knowing
Home is Where the Heart is: Mindfulness and The Wizard of Oz
On this 85th anniversary of the nationwide release of The Wizard of Oz, Shane Ledford reminds us that mindfulness can help us feel at home within ourselves any time, anywhere.
Mindfulness of Habituation
Have you ever noticed that something that once brought you great joy now seems kind of meh? Ever wonder why people stay way too long in bad relationships or toxic work environments even when it seems like nothing should be holding them back from making a change? Habituation may hold the keys and mindfulness can help unlock the doors to needed change.
Mindfulness of Interdependent Liberty
The liberty we value depends upon our recognition of our fundamental interconnection and a recommitment to solidarity in its pursuit.
“Lost in Translation” and Mindful Lessons from Chance Encounters
Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness teacher Shane Ledford explores mindful lessons in chance encounters and the movie “Lost in Translation”
Every Moment Is an Opportunity for Mindfulness
Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness teacher Erik Hulse talks about how each moment is an opportunity for mindfulness, whether joyful, painful, or something in between.
Mindfulness of Dignity
What role might dignity have to play in our mindfulness practice and in how we relate to ourselves and other beings?
Mindfulness of Stuff
Guest contributor Aimee Eckhardt discusses how we can mindfully and compassionately contemplate the stuff we’ve accumulated over a lifetime so our beloveds don’t have to
A Mindfulness Center in the Midwest: Six Years of Joyful Service
The Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness is celebrating six years of joyful service teaching mindfulness in the midwest
Secular Spirituality
Mindfulness teacher Tobi Holloway talks about the ways secular mindfulness and other contemplative practices have helped her connect with her spirituality without a connection to any particular religious belief system.
Mindfulness of Time Travel
A practice of mindfulness can expand our sense of time, allowing us to experience the moments of our lives more fully and authentically
Cast Away: Mindfulness at the Crossroads
Shane Ledford explores what the movie Cast Away has to teach us about mindfulness, time, and living deliberately