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Well-being Wednesday – Mindful Garden Meditation with Kind Mind – Sold out
September 17 @ 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Members: $50
Non-Members: $85
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Well-being at Lotusland
Nature restores us and promotes a sense of well-being. Join us for an opportunity to engage with nature and experience the Garden with a fresh perspective. We encourage participants to make an additional reservation for the afternoon tour to extend the Garden experience.
Mindful Meditation with Vivian Valentin of Kind Mind SB
Join Vivian Valentin for a nature-based mindfulness practices with a focus on cultivating connections between mind, body and environment to help deal with emotions around climate change.
Ease eco-anxiety with mindful nature-immersion that engages all the 7 senses and connect with others in a sharing circle. Practices will include mindful communication, movement, body-awareness, seated meditation, visualization, and nature-connection.
Vivian Valentin, Ph.D., Co-Founder of Kind Mind SB
Kind Mind SB works with communities to implement nature-based mindfulness and compassion practices. Focus is on enhanced learning, emotion regulation, relationships, and wellbeing for youth and adults. Vivian Valentin, PhD, and Harrison Heyl, MA, co-founded Kind Mind SB in 2019. They develop lessons through nature, music, art, games, and neuroscience. Vivian is the executive director and a former cognitive neuroscientist. She has been practicing yoga and mindfulness since 1994 and is certified to teach both. She also leads a project on climate resilience for youth. Harrison is the program manager and an associate Marriage & Family Therapist. He has been meditating daily since 1996, teaching mindfulness to adults and youth since 2008, and has co-founded three other organizations for mindfulness education.
