Let's see if we can approach our training more like an elegant dance and less like a struggle. As one of the classic analogies points out: pain is inevitable, struggle is optional.

#8 Seated: Would You Like To Dance?

Mar 18th, 2020 12m 7s

True mindfulness practice can feel like a mental dance, between moments of stable concentration and open-hearted, non-judgmental awareness of everything around us.

#7 Movement: What Is Happening?

Mar 18th, 2020 39m 7s

So much is happening to us while we run if we only learn to pay attention. Can you hear the birds sing? Can you be aware of your physical and mental state without judgement?

#7 Seated: What Is Happening?

Mar 18th, 2020 13m 29s

We're now ready to open up our awareness fully, to everything going on within and around us. This is sometimes considered more advanced but it's really the most effective way to start integrating mindfulness into everyday life.

#6 Movement: Why Do You Train?

Mar 18th, 2020 35m 28s

As we begin to move, our natural tendencies in training become more evident. Why are we doing this to ourselves? How can we get less carried away by our constant mood swings and take our practice forward?

#6 Seated: Why Do You Train?

Mar 18th, 2020 13m 37s

Let's turn our attention to what motivates us to work out in the first place. Meditation is a form of mental training that can help us illuminate some of the underlying challenges and opportunities in our physical training.

#5 Movement: What Is a Thought?

Mar 18th, 2020 36m 23s

Our mind generally appears a lot more distracted when we're in motion. Becoming mindful of thoughts here can be challenging and even brief moments of awareness can bring a lot of clarity in your workout.

#5 Seated: What Is a Thought?

Mar 18th, 2020 9m 57s

Thoughts and other mental events are considered another foundation of mindfulness. We will now attempt to witness them as they appear, while sitting silently.

#4 Movement: How Do You Feel?

Mar 18th, 2020 37m 23s

We all know that our emotional state during a workout can be volatile, to say the least. We'll now attempt to bring some awareness to the way gentle motion affects our mood.

#4 Seated: How Do You Feel?

Mar 18th, 2020 8m 54s

We're now getting into the more subtle realm of consciousness, by learning to be mindful of our emotions. This is another one of the traditional foundations of mindfulness.

#3 Movement: What Is Sound?

Mar 18th, 2020 32m 4s

As we take the instructions out into training, we'll naturally open up to a much wider set of sounds as the movement of the body is now part of this symphony. Let's see if we can maintain moments of stable attention within all of this.

#3 Seated: What Is Sound?

Mar 18th, 2020 10m 39s

Let's now shift our awareness to the various sounds around us. We'll see what it's like to simply listen without judgement or interpretation as we sit in silence.

#2 Movement: What Do You Feel?

Mar 18th, 2020 34m 11s

In this session, we'll take our awareness of bodily sensations out on a run. We can mindful of anything going on in the body, whether we're still or in motion.

#2 Seated: What Do You Feel?

Mar 18th, 2020 13m 33s

Our next point of investigation is the body as a whole and any sensations associated with it. Let's be curious and just feel whatever arises naturally.

#1 Movement: Who Is The Breather?

Mar 18th, 2020 38m 26s

Now we'll take awareness of breathing out on a gentle run to explore what it feels like to stabilize our attention in motion.

#1 Seated: Who Is The Breather?

Mar 18th, 2020 11m 28s

Max introduces awareness of breathing as one of the traditional foundations of mindfulness and the perfect way to build concentration in seated practice.

#0 Introduction

Mar 18th, 2020 4m

Welcome to the Mindful Athlete Course 2020. Tom and Max introduce themselves and give some context to the course and the origins of District Vision's meditation adventures.

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