UCalgary Mindfulness

We're back with new mindfulness meditations, listen to what we have planned for our second season, Setting a Mindful Intention. Episode one will be available Monday, December 19. Stay tuned for future episodes, releasing in the new year.

UCalgary Mindfulness is led by registered nurses and mindfulness practitioners Julia Imanoff, MN, RN, PNC (C) and Justin Burkett BN, MN, RN. Imanoff and Burkett were trained and certified as mindfulness facilitators from Mimentra Inc. in 2019, and have conducted many mindfulness sessions in conjunction with UCalgary Nursing. For more information on the podcast, click here.

Presented by UCalgary's Campus Mental Health Strategy.

This session rotates through a series of awareness exercises. A meditative technique borrowed from yoga nidra, this practice is good for rejuvenating the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of life.

This meditation can be practiced any time of day, but is particularly useful at bedtime.

Facilitated by Justin Burkett BN RN, Masters Student.

Resource referenced: Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris.

Presented by UCalgary's Campus Mental Health Strategy.

Practice two movement-based meditations that explore ways to anchor awareness in the moving body. This session incorporates a mindful movement meditation followed by a mindful walking meditation.

Pair with a body scan for an even more reflective practice on how this meditation feels in the body.

Facilitated by UCalgary Nursing doctoral student Julia Imanoff, MN, RN, PNC (C)

Presented by UCalgary's Campus Mental Health Strategy.

This mindfulness meditation opens space to nurture and support connection—whether cultivating connection to selves, those around us, or the earth beneath and above us.

Facilitated by Justin Burkett BN RN, Masters Student.

Resource discussed:

Yung Pueblo, poet and meditator, and speaker https://yungpueblo.com

Presented by UCalgary's Campus Mental Health Strategy.

Explore three short focus and concentration-based practices to support situations of high stress or reactivity. These practices are centred around the idea of acceptance (or receiving what is offered or what is present).

This episode starts with a mantra or affirmation statement, shifts to a breathing exercise, then ends with a three-minute breathing meditation.

Facilitated by UCalgary Nursing doctoral student Julia Imanoff, MN, RN, PNC (C)

Presented by UCalgary's Campus Mental Health Strategy.

Sometimes the wisest way of responding is to do nothing at all. The 'do nothing' technique discussed and practiced in this meditation develops three mindfulness skills: concentration, clarity and equanimity.

Facilitated by Justin Burkett BN RN, Masters Student.

Resources discussed:

No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism, Chris Niebauer, PhD

Shinzen Young https://www.shinzen.org

Jeff Warren https://jeffwarren.org

Presented by UCalgary's Campus Mental Health Strategy.

Join us for an activity-based session to help better understand the way our daily routines can affect us. Learn how to relate differently to these experiences, whether they are nourishing, neutral, or depleting, and whether practicing mindful awareness may encourage ways to reframe or balance perceptions of these activities.

Facilitated by UCalgary Nursing doctoral student Julia Imanoff, MN, RN, PNC (C)

Resources discussed:

Finding Peace, by Danny Penman and Mark Williams

Presented by UCalgary's Campus Mental Health Strategy.

Reduce biological stress in this 15-minute meditation technique, Body Scan. An effective method in reducing biological stress. Facilitated by Justin Burkett BN RN, Masters Student.

Resources discussed:

Joseph Goldstein https://www.dharma.org/teacher/joseph-goldstein/

Meditation for Beginners Book by Jack Kornfield https://jackkornfield.com

Presented by UCalgary's Campus Mental Health Strategy.

This five-minute mindfulness meditation episode supports mindful eating and requires a handful of finger food such as raisins, dried fruit or nuts, a piece of paper and a pen. The raisin meditation can help bring our focus to the present moment. Facilitated by Julia Imanoff, MN, RN, PNC (C).

Presented by UCalgary's Campus Mental Health Strategy.

Develop a different relationship with your thoughts, emotions, and body sensations. Meditation begins at 5:15

Hosted by UCalgary Nursing doctoral student Julia Imanoff, MN, RN, PNC (C)

Resources discussed:

Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World Book by Danny Penman and Mark Williams

Presented by UCalgary's Campus Mental Health Strategy.