Different Paths to Effortless Living:
Our Effortless Living Community
Our Effortless Sleep Course
Our Effortless Mindfulness Course
and
Our Effortless Mini-Courses:
Effortless Mindful Movement
Effortless Music Improvisation
Effortless Breathing, Relaxation and Yoga Nidra
The Effortless Living Community
Have you been meaning to meditate regularly, exercise, eat better, or just live a somewhat saner life – but just can’t get yourself to do it?
Are there things you manage to do once in a while that you know are good for you and actually find helpful, but which you don’t get around to doing regularly enough to make a difference?
Or maybe you already have some kind of regular practice, but you’re not really enjoying it and don’t see that it’s making a real difference in your life.
What if you could be part of a warm supportive community whose purpose is to help you get past your resistance to doing the things you’ve been wanting to do, and help you make whatever practice you’re already doing more enjoyable, and inspiring, and more effective?
In our online Effortless Living Community, you’ll get daily support and guidance for using effortless mindfulness to make whatever change you want to make in your life. And every step of the way, you’ll be learning to deepen your practice of effortless mindfulness that, over time, awakens a profound sense of ease and calm, a feeling of being more connected to yourself and others, and a sense of child-like wonder that so many of us lose touch with as adults.
A Whole Different Approach to Change
We’ve probably all been overwhelmed with advice about what we should eat, how we should exercise, how we should meditate to make us feel less stressed and more peaceful. Maybe you even tried doing some of those things but didn’t think they helped, and found that worrying about doing them or whether you were doing them right was just more stress.
Why does doing things we know are good for us have to be so darn hard? Well, maybe it doesn’t. Maybe there’s something fundamentally off about how we go about trying to do them.
What if there were a radically different way of going about changing our lives - a wa y that was gentler, more natural and much more enjoyable?
Well actually, there is - and the key to that different way is a simple practice called effortless mindfulness.
But because it’s so radically different than what we’re used to, and because the habit of stressing ourselves out to try to control everything and everyone in our lives is so deeply ingrained, it can take a lot of support to learn the practice in a way that is relaxed, fun and playful - and doesn’t create more stress!
So take a moment to imagine what it might be like to be part of a warm, inviting community where you can get daily guidance and support for doing all the good stuff you want to do and for going about it in a much more relaxed and enjoyable way. A community where you can share your frustrations, your victories and discoveries with others who are learning along with you.
Happily, you don’t have to just imagine such a community because it actually exists.
Click HERE to learn more about the Effortless Living Community
To become a member the community,
click on the Sign Up button below:
Our Effortless Sleep Course:
From Restless Nights to Effortless Sleep
Would you like to be able to fall asleep and get back to sleep effortlessly, without having to
rely on drugs or supplements?Would you like to wake up in the morning feeling energized and refreshed and have plenty of
energy throughout the day?Would you like to learn a method which does all of the above and also trains your nervous system to be able to shift into a calm, relaxed state of mind and body any time of day?
If you answered yes to the above questions, you’ll definitely want to check out our online effortless sleep course, “From Restless Nights to Effortless Sleep.” In the course, you’ll be guided through the steps of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), which is the method most highly recommended by sleep experts for overcoming insomnia. You’ll also learn Effortless Mindfulness and Yoga Nidra, which have been shown to make CBT-I much more effective. And you’ll be learning all of these methods in a way that’s fun, enjoyable and requires very little effort.
What you learn in the course will help you fall asleep and get back to sleep effortlessly, wake up in the morning feeling more energized and refreshed, and have more energy throughout the day. You may even find that what you’re learning to help you sleep with ease gives you a greater sense of ease during the day as well.
When you sign up for the course, in addition to learning the drug-free sleep methods mentioned above - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia, Effortless Mindfulness and Yoga Nidra - you’ll have a lot of personal support along the way:
I’m available in our virtual Conversation Lounge to offer guidance, answer your questions and help you tailor what you’re learning to your individual needs
You’ll have the support of fellow learners with whom you can share your challenges and celebrate your progress
You’ll have access to a library of audio, video and written resources which include extra practices and music I specially composed to help develop your capacity for deeper more restorative sleep
ARE YOU READY TO GET STARTED?
To learn more about the components of the Effortless Sleep Course, click on any of the links below:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)
Effortless Mindfulness
Yoga Nidra
Music for Sleep
Effortless Breathing and Relaxation
Effortless Sleep FAQ
The course will be available again in mid-September 2025. You can learn more about our approach to effortless sleep by subscribing to our newsletter.
In addition to all the practices that are specific for sleep, the course includes learning basic breathing, relaxation and other practices that calm the nervous system and which are fundamental for effortless sleep. If you’re not yet familiar with these practices, it can be helpful to participate in our Effortless Living Community for a month or two first, to help you get a good grounding in these basics. That way,, when you start the sleep course, you’ll be able to focus more fully on the techniques that are specifically about helping you get a full, restorative night’s sleep on a regular basis.
The cost for lifetime access to the Effortless Sleep course is $229
Our Effortless Mindfulness Course:
Train Your Brain, Change Your Life
In this course, you’ll learn a variety of breathing, relaxation and effortless mindfulness practices that can change the physical structure of your brain in a way that will:
improve your physical health
generate more happiness and overall well-being
improve your concentration and mental clarity
help you learn more easily and work more productively
develop a greater sense of ease and effortlessness in all you do
ultimately develop a deeper sense of meaning and purpose in life
As you progress through the course, you’ll learn how to make the practices a more and more integral part of your life. You’ll also learn how the skills you’re developing can, in addition to improving your own life, help you be a positive influence on the world around you.
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
The course provides you with a simple and very practical understanding of how your brain works to create stress, illness, suffering, and all kinds of imbalances in your life. It guides you through a wide variety of breathing, relaxation and effortless mindfulness practices that work to change the physical structure of your brain so that it naturally begins to generate more ease, calm, and effectiveness in virtually every aspect of your life.
You’ll learn how your brain and nervous system evolved to function in a balanced way, and how that functioning has been thrown off-balance by the stresses and strains of the modern world. You’ll learn both inner and outer approaches to rebalancing your brain programming so that it can do its job of improving your health, your ability to learn and be productive at work, and of creating an experience of deep inner peace, calm and happiness which we call “open, heartful awareness.”
Balancing your own brain programming will also give you a clearer sense of how you can help create circumstances in the world that support more balanced brain functioning for others – in ways that are organic, non-intrusive and lead to a greater sense of connection and community, as well as a deeper sense of meaning and purpose.
To learn more about the Effortless Mindfulness Course,
click HERE.
To purchase the course, click on the Sign Up button below.
This will take you to the checkout page, where you’ll be asked to create an account before purchasing the course.
While you’re deciding whether to sign up for the course, you can learn more about effortless mindfulness by subscribing to our newsletter.
The cost for lifetime access to the Effortless Mindfulness course is $279
Mini Courses
We also have several mini courses available:
Effortless Mindful Movement
Effortless Piano Improvisation
Effortless Breathing, Relaxation and Yoga Nidra
To learn more about these mini-courses, click HERE:
Being part of our Effortless Living Community for a month or two can help you get the most benefit from the mini-courses. As a member of the community, you’ll have support for learning the practices on which the effortless approach of the mini-courses is based.
Testimonials
Effortless Sleep Course Testimonials
Thank you so much Don! Last night was the first night of restful relaxed sleep in a long time. I even woke up not stiff and achy this morning. I always hit the ground running every morning but this morning I did not have to rush because I woke up refreshed on my own.
Sheri K.
Thank you for this inspiring and very helpful journey . Dr. Salmon's competence and longstanding experience shine through the course, This has all helped me a lot in dealing with my chronic sleeplessness. I wholeheartedly recommend this course!"
Marco M.
I haven’t even finished this course and I’m already sleeping better and more consistently than I can remember. … This is a course about sleep, but more than that, it gently teaches a way of living that involves less effort, more awareness and greater ease. Highly recommended.
Anne P
All aspects of my sleep have changed for the better since taking the effortless sleep course. I’m falling asleep just about right away using your wonderful Yoga Nidra recordings. I’m amazed to find I’m sleeping through the night regularly, with almost no interruptions, something that hasn’t happened this frequently for a long time. What a difference this course has made!
Assetou X.
Effortless Mindfulness Course Testimonials
I loved the course, “Train Your Brain, Change Your Life.” For about a year before taking it, I had been learning mindfulness from a number of different sources. I feel like after taking Don and Jan’s course, I really “got” mindfulness for the first time, The music and videos are works of art, enjoyment, and instruction.. and, this is the best psychotherapy I have ever had. And I had lots of different kinds over my long life.
Paul S,
I found the instructions and practices were easy to understand, fun to do, and very effective for opening my heart and deepening my general appreciation for day-to-day life. And I loved the soothing voices and music in the instructional audios.
Dr. Shelley Thomas, Director, Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition, Middle Tennessee State University
Though I’ve been practicing meditation for quite a few years, I have found that with your “Train Your Brain” course I am better able to access that place of calm within, and that I have more fluidity and ability to change. The understanding of neural pathways has helped motivate me to be less obsessive, more able to let go of habitual ways of reacting and doing things.
Liz I.
