Mindfulness Workshops in
Glen Iris, Melbourne
The Practice of Present Moment Reality
The invitation of mindfulness is to recognise your wholeness in present moment reality. Mindfulness meditation offers us a powerful practice and pathway for slowing down, reducing stress and reactivity. We can experience a deeper sense of inner peace, clarity, and interconnection to support conscious living and leadership.
Rooted in ancient contemplative and wisdom traditions, particularly Insight Meditation (Vipassanā), and supported by modern neuroscience, this is a simple yet profound technique for cultivating a more spacious, harmonious, and aware relationship with the inner and outer world.
When we live more fully embodied in the present moment, it can support us to navigate our lives and work with greater ease, resilience, compassion and wise action. Meditation helps you forge a deeper connection with yourself, community, and the natural world.
Anchoring Awareness with Insight
Mindfulness meditation is the practice of systematically observing your thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and environment in present-moment awareness. Drawing from the practices of Insight Meditation and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, we focus on noticing and naming experience as it arises and passes away, without judgment or entanglement.
In our sessions, you will learn practical skills and a systematic practice to:
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Anchor Yourself: Use the breath and body sensations as a stable anchor in the present moment.
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Observe Phenomena: Train the mind to observe the flow of sensory experience (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching) and mental phenomena (thoughts, emotions).
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Release Reactivity: Break free from unhelpful thought patterns and allow consciousness to flow freely through your body-mind, seeing things as they truly are.
I invite you to not only take my word (and the scientific evidence) for it but to learn and practice it for yourself.
The Benefits of Mindful Living
Mindfulness meditation has been scientifically shown to provide a wide range of benefits for your well-being. By engaging in a consistent practice, you can expect to:
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Reduce Stress & Anxiety: Learn to respond to difficult situations with greater calm and composure.
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Enhance Focus & Clarity: Improve your concentration, paying attention and decision-making abilities.
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Cultivate Emotional Resilience: Develop the ability to navigate all your emotions without being overwhelmed.
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Improve Overall Wellbeing: Foster a deeper sense of calm, balance, purpose, creativity, and inner vitality.
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Wise Action: Mindfulness supports social and environmental justice, public health, authentic and creative expression and ethical leadership.
The Mindful Mindsets: Attitudes of Practice
Discover the nine Mindful Mindsets, developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, that form the foundational attitudes for an effective mindfulness meditation practice. Cultivating these attitudes is key to Insight. These mindsets can be cultivated in your formal meditations but also informally in day-to-day life. Read more about the mindful mindsets in The Coaching Blog.
Mindfulness and Compassion
In recent years mindfulness has exploded in popularity in the west, leading to innovations in medicine and psychology practice thanks to Jon Kabat-Zinn and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction. Mindfulness helps people be more present in everyday and manage challenges and difficulties more skilfully rather than automatic reactions. This leads to great ease and clarity.
Jon Kabat Zinn had the idea for the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction program (MBSR) while on a silent Insight Meditation retreat.
As a mindfulness-based stress reduction teacher I have written extensively on the subject of mindfulness and compassion to help our community of meditators understand the benefits and how to navigate the practices. From mindful leadership, to overthinking, neuroscience, self-care, compassion and creative flow, discover more on The Coaching Blog topic Mindfulness and Compassion to support your wellbeing, inner peace and growth.
Insight Meditation
The insight meditation tradition is a branch of Vipassana (insight) Meditation, rooted in Theravada Buddhism and the early Buddha's teachings (Dharma) that was established 2600 years ago in India. The Insight Meditation community is now international and here in Australia Insight Meditation Australia offer retreats, The Insight Meditation Institute offers training while Melbourne Insight Meditation offer weekly sits and retreats.
The aim of Insight Meditation is to awaken to a spiritual life, to understand the truth of reality (4 Nobel truths) and cultivate an ethical life (8 fold path) leading to more freedom, peace, wisdom and compassion. You don't need to identify as a Buddhist to practice Insight Meditation, it's not a religion or belief system rather an invitation to explore the practice for yourself - the teachers offer a map to discover what is the true nature of reality. I am currently undertaking the 4 year Dharma Teacher Training at IMI and will be facilitating meditations with MIM on Wednesdays at The Eco Centre in St Kilda.
Mindfulness Meditation with Marion
Your journey into present-moment awareness is supported through:
Resource: Here is a meditation playlist featuring the systematic meditations from Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. These meditations are a great accompaniment to my one-on-one mindfulness coaching program and Mindfulness for Practitioners course. You can also find my mindfulness in nature meditations here and Vic Walks website.
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