UCalgary Mindfulness
The practice of mindfulness is for everyone. It is a meditation practice that can reduce stress and anxiety and improve attention and creativity, supporting our daily functioning. Season Two, Setting a Mindful Intention, progresses from posture and breath, to managing complex and challenging emotions. Through seven sessions, hone skills to become more aware and purposeful, while incorporating moments of stillness.
This podcast is brought to you by the University of Calgary’s Campus Mental Health Strategy—a bold commitment to the importance of mental health and well-being of our university family.
UCalgary Mindfulness is led by registered nurses and mindfulness practitioners Julia Imanoff, MN, RN, PNC (C) and Justin Burkett MN, RN, CHSE. Imanoff and Burkett were trained and certified as mindfulness facilitators from Mimentra Inc. in 2019, and have conducted many mindfulness sessions in conjunction with UCalgary Nursing.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 16 minutes
- Episodes
- 20
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
On the importance of taking breaks
Sometimes we may feel overwhelmed, stressed, or burned out by the amount and intensity of our tasks and responsibilities.
When we are burned out, feeling tired, irritable, sometimes cynical, detach…
On listening and being present
Listening is a vital skill we cultivate every day, whether in a classroom, during a meeting or conversing with others. We also listen to our thoughts and emotions that arise in our mind, the sounds o…
Developing self-leadership through meditation
This session investigates how we want to arrive in our leadership and be present with others. One meditation explores self-compassion and grounding. The second borrows from Zen meditation and explore…
Mindfulness, self-compassion, and common humanity
In this session, we focus on cultivating compassion, both for ourselves and for others, using both a Loving Kindness meditation and a self-compassion meditation.
Loving Kindness meditation starts at …
The importance of sleep
This session aims to support the important biological function of sleep. We will use the meditative relaxation technique of yoga nidra to help support our ability to rest. This technique is for every…
Seeing intentions
In this session, we get mindful of life’s pushes and pulls by exploring how meditation helps us improve and become aware of intentional processes.
Meditation begins at 1:44.
Facilitated by Justin Bu…
Emotions: Reactions and responses
This session helps bring awareness, understanding and acceptance to emotions. In our guided meditation, we invite in joy and gratitude, and reflect on how to cultivate more of these emotions.
Medita…
The mind-body connection
In this session, we explore the mind-body connection. This episode includes a meditation that brings awareness to this connection and helps encourage more space between our thoughts and actions. Medi…
The brain and body’s response to stress
In this episode, we explore the brain and body’s response to stress, including a three-part breathing meditation to support this response. Meditation starts at 5:06. Facilitated by Julia Imanoff, MN…
Welcome back: Meditation as a model
Join in on a foundational meditation practice, posture, or a sitting meditation. Meditation starts at 5:34. Facilitated by Justin Burkett BN, MN, RN.
Join us in the new year for episode two.
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UCalgary Mindfulness: Season Two Introduction
We're back with new mindfulness meditations, listen to what we have planned for our second season, Setting a Mindful Intention. Episode one will be available Monday, December 19. Stay tuned for futu…
Weaving Mindfulness Into Daily Life
This session rotates through a series of awareness exercises. A meditative technique borrowed from yoga nidra, this practice is good for rejuvenating the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of li…
Mindful Movement
Practice two movement-based meditations that explore ways to anchor awareness in the moving body. This session incorporates a mindful movement meditation followed by a mindful walking meditation.
Pa…
Cultivating Connection
This mindfulness meditation opens space to nurture and support connection—whether cultivating connection to selves, those around us, or the earth beneath and above us.
Facilitated by Justin Bur…
Acceptance Meditation
Explore three short focus and concentration-based practices to support situations of high stress or reactivity. These practices are centred around the idea of acceptance (or receiving what is offere…
Do Nothing
Sometimes the wisest way of responding is to do nothing at all. The ‘do nothing’ technique discussed and practiced in this meditation develops three mindfulness skills: concentration, clarity and equ…
Nourishing and Depleting
Join us for an activity-based session to help better understand the way our daily routines can affect us. Learn how to relate differently to these experiences, whether they are nourishing, neutral, o…
Body Scan
Reduce biological stress in this 15-minute meditation technique, Body Scan. An effective method in reducing biological stress. Facilitated by Justin Burkett BN RN, Masters Student.
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Bonus: The Raisin Meditation
This five-minute mindfulness meditation episode supports mindful eating and requires a handful of finger food such as raisins, dried fruit or nuts, a piece of paper and a pen. The raisin meditation c…
Introduction, Awareness of Breath Meditation
Develop a different relationship with your thoughts, emotions, and body sensations. Meditation begins at 5:15
Hosted by UCalgary Nursing doctoral student Julia Imanoff, MN, RN, PNC (C)
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