Katy Oberle

Learn what mindfulness IS and ISN'T, and how to infuse creatively mindful practices (in formal and informal ways) into your everyday life to help decrease stress, promote healing, and increase joy, connection, and gratitude.

Learn how music, art, and movement contain qualities that are like medicine for our chronically stressed-out nervous systems. Discover how mindful engagement in these activities can promote our own healing and transformation. “Each moment, you have the opportunity to paint a stroke of reactivity, fighting and resisting, or to choose to create music, singing and dancing with the joy of being fully alive, awake, and open. Just as we do cardio and endurance training to prepare for a marathon, practicing mindfulness is training for the marathon of life, building our creative muscles and aligning our core rhythm, intuition, values, intention, and vision as we embrace our truth from within.” -Janet Slom, "An Artful Path to Mindfulness"

Create a vision board for the coming year and beyond that incorporates your intentions, dreams, and values for various areas of your life (career, parenting, social, etc.). Reflect on any fears, self-doubts, and judgments that block this vision, and discern if any aspects of your vision are “shoulds” instead of being derived from your wise, authentic self. Meditate on what really matters to you in life. Learn how to re-focus on your vision when you get blown off course, and learn ways to interact with your vision board throughout the year through setting S.M.A.R.T. goals.