Excerpt: "...Mindful living saved my life at the end of the year in 2015 when I worked with an Occupational Therapist at our local concussion clinic and she introduced me to the world of iRest, or Integrative Restoration - a school of Yoga Nidra and mindfulness meditation developed by Dr. Richard Miller.

I found unexpected hope in that first session when I experientially realized that I wasn’t in an inescapable bubble of unending pain but rather that there were sensations of pain happening in specific parts of my body.

I experienced the reality that I could be with the ebbs and flows of life from a place of equanimity and wholeness.

On that day, I got a small taste of that wholeness and that unchanging peace.

It was the first hope I had experienced and it came at a time when I was at the end of my rope.

I immediately jumped into the practices as though my life depended on them — because it did — and after months of practicing, I was encouraged by my occupational therapist to go to a Level One 5-day intensive training that would serve as much as a therapeutic intervention as anything else.

She said, “You actually do your homework. That’s unusual.”

I said, “I’ll die if I don’t.”

She said, “Well, then go get trained by Richard (the founder of iRest) before he dies.”

So, I did....."