May 17 – July 11, 2021
“I’ve waited my whole life for this.”
Spring into summer with a fresh outlook on life, when we commence our Spring-Summer 2021 round of Embracing Change.
Finding balance in our lives has never been more critical. In today’s polarized society and amid an unprecedented pandemic, fear, confusion, and uncertainty are making rational solutions difficult to identify and placing immeasurable strains on existing relationships and community bonds.
Recognizing these concerns, InStill has developed the Embracing Change online course that shows how to skillfully train the mind to cope with stress and create a powerful inner sanctuary. This helps create greater internal resilience to the chaos swirling around us, and provides tools to help create a more peaceful outer environment that positively impacts relationships with colleagues, peers, and family.
This 8-week, 25-hour program features 10 hours of self-paced instruction, and 15 hours of live, interactive online training in small groups with two InStill teachers per class, including eight weekly classes and a mini-retreat.
In addition to mindfulness training aimed at addressing today’s uncertainties and fears, this unique program also incorporates yoga therapy and music-based mindfulness practices led by highly experienced practitioners. By the end of the program, you will have received training from at least ten of InStill’s teachers.
Embracing Change: A Guide for Resilience commences the week of May 17, running for eight weeks and ending in mid-July.
This program would normally be priced at $349.99, but once you’ve joined the InStill Mindfulness online community, we’ll give it to you for just $119.99. That is less than $5 an hour, over half of which is live and interactive!
Numbers are strictly limited, at just 20 participants, so we recommend booking your place soon.
InStill has been leading classes and retreats, and delivering courses like this for several years. This is what people have said about this course:
- I loved the variety of practices.
- There was so much wonderful material that I will and am going back to daily. I love the small classes.
- I appreciated so many things: the expertise of the leaders, the loving supportive community created, the variety of approaches and exercises related to mindfulness, and the wealth of resources to which you are connecting us.
- I feel like I’m more available to my loved ones.
- It has made me more mindful of my surroundings. Less clutter, more outside time.
- So glad I took the class.
- Very practical and very useful.
- I learned SO much!
- It will change your life.
- It has helped with stress, concentration and overall well-being. I feel more content and feel that I have more tools to deal with stressors in life.
Jessie Benson is a physician, yoga-meditation teacher, and a certified life coach. In addition, Jessie is a professional artist, specializing in a technique she originated in 2013 that utilizes beeswax and oil, and often includes her original poetry. |
Jim Borling (MM, MT-BC) is a Professor Emeritus of Music, and former Director of Music Therapy at Radford University. He is a Board Certified Music Therapist and a Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery. Jim is co-founder of a clinical private practice called MusicVisions, LLC, where he specializes in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music. |
Angela Cardenas holds a Master’s degree in Counseling and Human Development, and is a licensed professional counselor in private practice. Angela is also an Adjunct Instructor at Radford University where she teaches the undergraduate course The Concepts, Process, and Practices of Mindfulness. She facilitates mindfulness retreats, groups, and classes. |
Dr. Alan Forrest, Ed.D, LPC, LMFT is a Professor in the Department of Counselor Education at Radford University. Alan leads mindfulness retreats for college and graduate students, medical students, human service and mental health professionals, educators, young adults and others. He is interested in contemplative pedagogy and has served as a conference committee member for various mindfulness-based conferences. |
Shimila Keenum runs Grounded Path Holistic Counseling. She has dedicated herself to helping others through bridging the mind and body connection as a social worker and registered nurse. She supports healing using mindfulness in yoga, EMDR, and Acudetox. Her research background is in mindfulness and burnout in the human services field. |
 Lori Marsh, PhD served on the faculty of the Biological Systems Engineering Department at Virginia Tech for 15 years. She became interested in yoga and eastern philosophy after hiking the Appalachian Trail in 2000, and has completed a Yoga Alliance Certified yoga teacher training and taught yoga for several years. She attends meditation retreats regularly, and her daughter was an ordained Buddhist nun in Myanmar. |
Anna Pittman holds a PhD in Consciousness Studies and a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology. She also holds certifications as an Advanced teacher of Hatha Yoga, Meditation, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, Shiatsu bodywork, Massage, Transpersonal Barratt Breathwork, Healing Touch, Reiki and Life Transformation Consulting. |
Jamie Reygle is the Executive Director of InStill Mindfulness. He began studying meditation techniques in the late ’90s, and has been practicing mindfulness since 2003. Since then, his interest in mindfulness has led him to teach mindfulness in many settings, including public schools, businesses, independent workshops, and music festivals; staffing around a dozen retreats; and serving on a mindfulness conference committee. |
Jennifer Speiden owns and runs Inner Awareness, as a certified yoga therapist, registered yoga teacher, and Ayurvedic lifestyle counselor. Through integrative medicine and contemplative mindfulness practices, she invites individuals to enjoy the beauty of both mindful movement and reflective stillness. |
Juliet Trail, PhD is the Chair of the Contemplative Practices for Higher Education Conferences, the former Director of Education at the UVA Contemplative Sciences Center, and Founder and Director of Courageous Compassion Connection. She is also a poet and musician who explores the intersections of creativity and contemplation. |
