Teach Mindfulness with Shamash Alidina
By Shamash Alidina
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Teach Mindfulness with Shamash AlidinaNov 03, 2021
#43 - Singing Negative Thoughts helps free you from their power - Cognitive Defusion
#42 - Cognitive defusion for images in your head
#41 - Teaching Cognitive Defusion - Word Repetition
#40 - What is Psychological Flexibility and why is it so exciting?
#39 - Making Your Mindful Classes more Creative and Evidence Based through connnecting with ACT
#38 - Confidence Building Tips for Mindful Teachers Part 2
Ways for mindful teachers to build confidence in simple and practical ways.
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#37 - Confidence Building Tips for Mindful Teachers Part 1
How can you use the principles of mindfulness and ACT to build confidence?
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#36 - Using a Private Online Platform for Community Building (especially Mighty Networks)
What are the pros and cons of using Facebook? What could you use to bring together courses and community.
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#36 - Building Mindful Communities after a Course
Learn all about mindful community building and why I love it so much! Are you part of a mindful community or have you started one?
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#34 - Assessing the Quality of Your Mindful Classes
Why bother assessing your classes? What are the best ways to do it? Are surveys a good idea? Find out today!
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#33 - Pros and Cons of Teaching Mindfulness on Zoom
Why teach mindfulness on zoom? What's the pros and cons? Should you teach mindfulness in-person or on Zoom?
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#32 - Benefits of Teaching Mindfulness Online
#31 - Mindfulness and Tiny Habits
How can you help your class be more mindful in a fun and easy way? Find out today!
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#30 - Everyday Mindfulness Matters and How to Encourage More
Life is the greatest meditation. Find out why!
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#29 - Managing Difficult Experiences in Mindful Class
What do you do if someone is experiencing a lot of emotion after one of your meditations?
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#28 - How to Teach Mindfulness Regularly (to Grow Courage and Confidence)
Teaching is the best way of learning! Learn how to go about doing this, especially if you're very nervous to teach. And why teaching regularly is a great habit for you and your personal growth.
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#27 - Why Mindful Storytelling is at the Heart of Mindfulness Classes and Communites
What is the big deal about storytelling? And what is mindful storytelling? How do groups go on the Hero's Journey? Find out in today's episode
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#26 - How to Find Mindfulness Students and Clients to Teach
What are the key principles when it comes to finding students to teach? Why do we need to focus on one area? And how come social media doesn't work as well as we'd like? How could challenges and communities help to find more work?
Find out in this week's episode!
#25 - What's Massively Missing in Most Mindfulness Classes? The Power of Values
Why are values so important? What are their benefits? What's more powerful than just choosing values from a list? What's the values writing exercise? Find out more in today's episode.
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#24 - How to Bring Creativity into Your Mindfulness Classes (Whilst Staying Grounded in an Evidence-Based Approach)
Why bother being creative in mindfulness sessions? How can you be more creative? If you change a 'standard' 8-week course with your creativity, how can you still be fully evidence-based with what you're sharing, so you know your students and clients will be benefiting from what you're sharing?
Find out in today's episode on teaching mindfulness creatively.
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#23 - The Power and Beauty of Sharing the Lake Meditation
Which of the four elements of mindfulness are developed when guiding the lake meditation? How can you help deepen your students experience of the lake meditation? How does it help them to tap into their inner stillness?
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#22 - How Teach The Mountain Meditation Effectively
Why is mountain meditation so popular? What's the best way to guide it? What are the challenges of it?
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#21 - Teaching Mindfulness of Breath
Why is it not a good idea to start with mindfulness of breath for many people? What should you do if people feel anxious when feeling their breath?
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#20 - Teaching the Body Scan Meditation
Why do so many mindfulness classes start with the body scan meditation? How long should it last ideally? What are the common challenges?
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#19 - The What and How of Mindful Journalling
What is mindful journalling? What's the best way to do it? And how can you encourage your classes to journal? What are the benefits? How can journalling be good for your emotional and even physical health?
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#18 - Gratitude and Mindfulness - How do they link together?
We explore all things gratitude and mindfulness in today's episode!
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#17 - Ways to Bring Kindfulness and Not Just Mindfulness into Your Classes
What is kindfulness? What are the best ways to share kindfulness with others? Why is it important? Find out in this episode.
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#16 - Is Music Even Allowed in Mindfulness Classes?
What role does music have when teaching mindfulness and ACT to others?
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#15 - How to use Poetry in Mindfulness Classes
What are good poems to share in mindful classes? Why even bother sharing poetry? What makes the experience deeper for students?Β
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#14 - How can Metaphors be used in Mindfulness Sessions?
Why use metaphors in mindfulness classes or one to one? Can they be used within guided meditations? Find out in today's episode
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#13 - Emotional Pain - How to help your students work with difficult feelings
What is emotional pain? How do you help students to identify the difference between pain and suffering?
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#12 - Mindfulness and Physical Pain - How to Help Your Students Manage Pain
I share some tips and advise on a mindful approach to physical pain. I was going through a big headache as I recorded this episode, so was speaking from direct experience!
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#11 - Why bother including Mindful Movement in your Meditation Classes?
What is mindful movement? Is it essential in mindfulness classes? Do I need to be highly qualified to share it? Find out in this week's episode!
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#10 - 4 Ways of Teaching Mindful Walking
#9 - Teaching Mindful Eating
#8 - Challenges when guiding longer meditations to beginners
Sometimes you may be guiding longer meditations for beginners. How can you do that so that the beginners come back rather than give up? Find out in todays episode.
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#7 - The Hidden Values of Short Mindful Meditations
Discover the power of small mindful practices and how to teach that too.
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#6 - Teaching the Skill of Flexible Presence
Why do we teach the skill of being present? And what does that mean exactly? Discover some ways to share presence in your mindfulness classes. Find out more at https://teachmindfulnessonline.comΒ
#5 - Teaching about the Observing Self
#4 - Teaching Unhooking or Cognitive Defusion
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#3 - Teaching Acceptance
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#2 - The Four Skills of Mindfulness
#1 - Join a mindful community and learn to build your own
- why it's important to be part of a mindfulness/meditation community
- why it's important to start your own mindful community after that, too!
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Trailer - Teach Mindfulness with Shamash Alidina
Are you thinking about becoming a mindfulness teacher? Or do you want to boost your confidence as a mindfulness teacher? If so, then this podcast series is for you. Thanks for joining in!
I'm Shamash Alidina, author of 10 books on mindfulness, including Mindfulness for Dummies!