Mindfulness is a powerful practice that centers awareness on the present moment. Embracing mindfulness can significantly enhance your quality of life—it reduces stress, alleviates symptoms of depression, improves memory, and strengthens relationships. By engaging in mindfulness techniques such as breathing exercises, guided imagery, and other relaxation practices, you can cultivate a calmer mind and body, effectively reducing stress. We spend too much time planning, problem-solving, daydreaming, or dwelling on negative thoughts, which can lead to heightened stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Mindfulness offers a pathway to shift your focus, helping you connect more meaningfully with the world around you.
Lauren Turner of Lauren Turner Yoga, a trauma-informed yoga studio, brings a wealth of knowledge, skillfully teaching engaging and adaptable yoga classes. Her evidence-based techniques and trauma-informed protocols foster resilience and promote post-traumatic growth. She will offer a six-part yoga series at each of our clubhouses, designed to be gentle and supportive for individuals facing mental health challenges and trauma. This trauma-informed yoga initiative marks an exciting new chapter in our wellness offerings.
Your generous contributions will make these vital programs possible, enhancing the well-being of our members and the entire community.
The foods we eat affect our mental health and to many of us, planning, cooking and shopping for our meals is overwhelming. A barrier for our members is access to affordable healthy food. Have you ever walked into a grocery store and wandered around trying to figure out what to buy and what to make? Our “Make your Own” to go dinner program is designed to help. It provides members with the opportunity to explore recipes, nutrition, portion control and essential cooking skills, empowering them to prepare meals for themselves. Members will come together to learn, understand, share ideas and experiences, create meals and go home with healthy prepared meals.
We aim to create a Zen Den, allowing our members to connect with nature and take part in planning, tending and reaping the nutritional benefits of our new garden. Living in New England, we embrace the spring, summer and fall weather and want to utilize outdoor space as much as possible. The vision for the Zen Den is a relaxing green space for eating and socializing with a garden where members will watch the process of growth from start to harvest while incorporating ingredients into our daily meals of breakfast and lunch.
We need to keep pace with the world and offer technology opportunities that will help our members including trends in social media. We are excited to invest in podcast equipment in our welcoming studio where our members can share their stories. Mental health storytelling helps communicate important messages about mental health awareness, helps process and normalize people’s experiences while showing others they are not alone. Encouraging people to share their experiences helps them make sense of their memories while creating positive narratives.
