Melissa Appleton's Contact Details

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The Lab of Meditation

N/A, N/A, CA • Not Available Employees
Healthcare Facility/Healthcare Services

The Lab of Meditation Teacher Training Program is laboratory-like exploration, where to explore our inner life and its effects on our bodies, brains, minds, and the community at large. In the Lab, through mindful practice, we will become curious scientists, as we observe our inner life, and its reflection in our outer life, with curiosity and with compassionate care.This program is perfect for individuals wanting to build their personal practice, or for businesses and mindfully-oriented organizations wanting to feel competent and congruent in the practice of mindfulness, meditation and in life, overall. We aim to make meditation understandable and effective. Together we will build a Map of Meaning, a bigger framework to integrate all the new things we will learn together. The Lab of Meditation Teachers Training has 3 main pillars:1- A foundation in clinical psychology and science. We will expand upon principles borrowed from psychological schools of thought such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and more precisely Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). 2- The integrated use of biofeedback devices to demonstrate the positive impact of the practice. This is a quite unique (and fun) feature of this program. Together we will concretely learn what it means to self-regulate, to activate the para-sympathetic vs. sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system and the space in-between.How? we will use clinical-grade sensors to measure a volunteer's heart rate, heart rate variability, brain activity, hand sweat and temperature, muscle tension, breathing and we will learn together how to make sense of this information so that it will make sense.This course is accredited with the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. The International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA) is a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) dedicated to the professionalization and standardization of the mindfulness field.