Our Effortless Living Community

 


We’re an online community that’s here to support you in establishing 
any kind of meditation or mindfulness practice you choose,
and to help you learn how to apply the benefits of your practice
to any area of your life you wish







IF YOU CAN RELATE TO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING,
THE EFFORTLESS LIVING COMMUNITY COULD BE FOR YOU:


  • You’ve been wanting to start a meditation or mindfulness practice but haven’t gotten around to it

  • You already have a meditation practice but it hasn’t been all that inspiring or helpful

  • You’d like to learn how your practice can help you with other things that are important to you – like eating better, sleeping better, working or learning with greater ease or effectiveness, relating to your spouse, children, friends, co-workers . . .

  • You like the idea of being part of a warm supportive community that will help you establish a practice if you don’t have one, help you make any practice you already have more enjoyable and more effective, and help you learn to use your practice to improve virtually ANY area of your life you choose?

 
 

Having read that, we imagine you might be thinking something like:   “That sounds good but my life is so crazy and I’m already so overwhelmed, I just don’t have time for adding one more thing - no matter how great it sounds. 

But wait, do you have ten seconds to pause and take just one slow, gentle, conscious breath?
Try it, right now:

Slowly inhale, feeling the gentle flow of the breath . . .

And now, a little more slowly, effortlessly exhale fully 

If you do that 4 times - it takes about 40 seconds - you now have the beginning of what can become a strong, transformative meditation/mindfulness practice.   

 

MAKING IT EASY TO START AND DEVELOP
AN INSPIRING DAILY PRACTICE: 

The Power of Practicing for 30 Seconds

If you’ve been wanting to meditate but haven’t started yet, we’re guessing that it’s because either you believe you don’t have time – or – you feel like you just don’t have the mental bandwidth for learning something new.

Taking these into consideration, our focus is on developing the practice of pausing one or more times a day, for as little as 30 seconds at a time.

Over time, engaging in these brief pauses gives you an effortless way to learn and to incorporate a wide variety of meditative and mindfulness skills into your everyday life. 

The biggest challenge in taking brief pauses throughout the day is remembering to do it – and getting ourselves to resist the compulsion to keep doing whatever we’re doing. One of the great benefits of being in a community is that we can support each other in remembering to pause. We’ll even have periodic livestream guided pauses where we can all pause together.

 

MONTHLY THEMES TO PROVIDE A COMMUNITY-WIDE FOCUS

 

Each month of the year, we’ll be focusing on a specific area of practice. Here is the structure for the next 12 months: 

September:  Breathing Practices 
October:  Relaxation and Yoga Nidra 
November: Basic Mindfulness 
December:  Effortless Mindfulness 
January:  Cultivating Gratitude, Wonder, Compassion 
February:  Mindful, Heartful Preview and Review of the Day 
March:  Mindful, Heartful CBT Practices 
April:  Shifting to the Simple Joy of Immediate Experience
May: Mindful, Heartful Habit Change 
June:  Weaving the Practices Together in Your Own Unique Way 
July:  Mindful, Heartful Movement: Yoga, Qigong, Cardio, etc. 
August:  Practices that Change the World 

Since all the practices are intimately interconnected, even as we focus on one practice, it will be woven together with other practices.

 

LET’S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT WHAT THE
EFFORTLESS LIVING COMMUNITY HAS TO OFFER

 

  • It’s a place where you can feel at home, ask questions, share your experiences with others, give and receive support for doing the things that make life saner, sweeter, more enjoyable, and which give it a richer sense of meaning and purpose.

  • It’s a place where you can find inspiration and support for making whatever practice you do fresher and more inspiring

  • In addition to the fun of sharing insights and practice tips with other community members, there’s the joy of camaraderie that makes doing the practices more fun and interactive – even when you’re doing them on your own.

  • It makes it easy for you to:

    • search for others in the community who share your specific interests and/or challenges

    • find community members who live near you

    • create subgroups for applying the practices to specific interests you share with others - right within the community itself.

  • I’ll be there regularly in our virtual “Conversation Lounge” to help guide you and respond to your questions

SO HERE’S AN INVITATION 

We invite you to join our Effortless Living Community, where we will be bringing our 40+ years of practicing and teaching meditation and mindfulness to help you develop a practice that is effortless and enjoyable – and help you learn how you can use the practice to bring greater ease, joy, and effectiveness into virtually any area of your life.

(we invite you to?) Experience the joy and adventure of joining others in creating the kind of life you want to live.   

Still doubtful? Join the community for just one month. Start learning the practices, enjoy my help and the support of your fellow learners, and just see what happens.

The cost is $15/month if you pay monthly, or $8/month if you purchase an annual subscription. 


TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY
CLICK THE SIGN UP BUTTON BELOW:

 
 
 


Our courses are powerful and effective on their own for learning Effortless Sleep, Effortless Mindfulness, Effortless Improvisation, Effortless Mindful Movement, or Effortless Breathing, Relaxation and Yoga Nidra Basics. However, you may find that being a member of the Effortless Living Community can be a helpful way to prepare yourself to get the most out of the courses.

While you’re deciding whether to sign up for a courses or the community, you can learn more by subscribing to our newsletter.