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- Beginner Mindfulness course
- Mindfulness FAQ's
- Top Tips
- Mindful Eating
Beginners course-session one.
This 45 min video session covers: Mindfulness and its benefits. What the science shows. Secrets of the mind unveiled. The truth about multitasking. Noticing thoughts exercise. Mindful listening.
Beginners course -session two.
This 35 min video session covers: Managing stress and building resilience. Engaging fully in life. Dealing with difficult emotions. Mindful listening exercise. It is a great idea to practise the body scan exercise as part of this session as it will help you get out of your head in times of stress as discussed.
Beginners course-session three.
This 25min session covers: Happiness. Communication. Empathy and compassion. Mindfulness exercise. Integration and change. Please finish this session with the body scan exercise.
Mindless to mindful
The Ovio pause is critical to establishing a mindfulness practice as it instantly changes our state from mindless to mindful! This 3 min video explains the importance of the Ovio pause and its use.
Developing self awareness
Awareness of our thoughts is crucial to developing self awareness and emotional intelligence. This 5 min video allows you to begin this process.
Dealing with stress
The RAIN technique allows us to create space between stimulus and response when dealing with our stress triggers. With repeated use we develop emotional resilience and balance in our lives.
Fuel healthy connection.
Are you experiencing difficulty with a relationship in your life; a friend, family member or a colleague? When we are in conflict with others we often look for differences between us and them in order to justify our feelings. This exercise with change your perception and fuel heathy connection.
Stress management.
We discuss our stressors as well as we practise mindful listening. Mindfulness is about becoming more self aware. In this exercises we observe our mind while we as a listener and a speaker. This helps us reveal the tendencies of our own mind. No tendency is better or worse the important thing is to […]
Mindful listening exercise
Do you ever find your mind wandering when you are listening to others? Practising this exercise is a great way to connect with others and gain insights into the nature of your own mind. Try it with friends, family and colleagues. Remember this is a practise exercise and I am not suggesting that you always […]
Mindfulness body scan exercise
The body scan exercise helps us train our attention and awareness. We integrate our mind and body as well as practising non judgement and acceptance. It is recommended that you practice the body scan exercise before or after session two and three. It can also be used for ongoing mindfulness practice.
Why I train facilitators to share Ovio mindfulness
If you love mindfulness and want to share it with others you can attend one of our 2.5 day trainings where we give you a framework and resources to get started. You add all of your own uniqueness, life experience and wisdom.
What should I do when noises distract me when I am meditating?
Noises can become part of your meditation Cheryl from Ovio explains.
What is the difference between mindfulness and meditation?
Cheryl from Ovio explains Mindfulness is about our responsiveness to life.
Is mindfulness working for me?
Sometimes mindfulness is not pleasant why should I keep doing it? Cheryl explains.
How does mindfulness help you become present?
Cheryl from Ovio explains how your senses help you become present.
How does mindfulness work?
Cheryl from Ovio explains that you don’t need to try to clear you mind when practising mindfulness.
Chocolate Meditation
This mindfulness exercise is a popular way to practise mindfulness! DOWNLOAD
Mindfulness Body Scan Exercise
The is Emily’s body scan exercise. DOWNLOAD The is Jennifer Young body scan exercise. DOWNLOAD The body scan is crucial to any mindfulness practise, this 6min version is a great way place to start. DOWNLOAD
Noticing Thoughts Exercise
This is a 2 min noticing thoughts exercise. DOWNLOAD This 5 min noticing thoughts exercise will help with focus and presence. DOWNLOAD
Mindful relationships top tips
How to create harmonious relationships Cheryl Strawbridge shares her top tips.
Mindful parenting top tips
Do you love your kids and want to do the best parenting job you can. Cheryl Strawbridge explains her top mindful parenting tips.
Focus and ending procrastination
Cheryl Strawbridge explains how mindfulness can help with focus and motivation so you can get through your to do list!
Mindful eating a radical new way to eat
Mindful eating is not a fad or a diet it is a radical new approach to eating consciously and deliberately.
Curiosity and Compassion
By becoming curious about our triggers and eating habits allows us to create space between stimulus and response.
Understanding the habit loop
By understanding the habit loop we can understand how to break free of mindless food choices.
Make Eating Pleasurable
Eating should be a wonderful pleasure that should fill us with gratitude. Engaging the senses helps us enjoy eating.
DOWNLOADABLES
In this beautiful 68 page downloadable journal Cheryl has demystified mindfulness and explained it in simple, sticky and secular terms. It is to be used to complement the Ovio beginners course. The exercises, journaling prompts, and easy to follow explanations help you integrate mindfulness into your everyday life.

Cheryl will post a video answer for any FAQ's other questions will be answered by email. Send us your question
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