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MBNC – Mindfulness-Based Nature Connection

Exploring Mindfulness in Nature with JASON CUSSON, CFRN, CEN, CCRN

A Six- Week Nature Meditation Course

Course Overview

Join me for this course that explores accessible and powerful meditation practices in the beauty of nature. Each week I will guide participants in various nature meditations that allow people to refine their meditation practice, deepen their awareness of the natural world, and open up to qualities of delight, insight, and awe. We will also give short talks on various mindfulness in nature themes as well as offer times for discussion and inquiry.

You will learn to cultivate many beautiful nature practices including foundational techniques like breathing with nature, arriving practice, mindfulness of body outdoors, and listening meditation. You will also learn sensory awareness meditations and how to practice meditation as a meandering practice with various points of focus such as orientating toward curiosity, love, or open awareness. You will explore heart-based meditations like gratitude practice, loving and being loved meditation, and there will be wisdom meditations on the elements, interconnection, knowing and being known meditation, and a host of other accessible and powerful contemplative practices.

Learning Objectives

  • Cultivate a natural mindful presence outdoors.
  • Study a variety of nature meditation practices that can be practiced anywhere.
  • Access expansive qualities of joy, awe, and wonder
  • Develop intimacy with the natural world.
  • Join a rich learning community of like-minded meditators.
  • Deepen your meditative journey.

2-hour class weekly (Recorded and available for 2 months)

Cost: $175 

Resilience training for EMS and Healthcare providers

I came into this world in less than desirable circumstances and little did I know that these would play a role in the constructs of my mind. Followed by 34 years of working in critical care exposed me to so much tragedy and human suffering that it took its toll on my psyche. Drowning in grief and struggling with unrecognized Ptsd and compassion fatigue I would make it my mission to better understand the human condition and the unspoken suffering unique to our profession. First, was overcoming the stigmatism associated with mental health and psychotherapy. Sitting on the couch I spent countless hours guided through different modalities of modern psychotherapy to deconstruct my mind and arrive at root causation. My fascination with its complexities and deep compassion for my colleagues sent me on a quest to deepen my knowledge and so I studied the neurobiology, physical and emotional responses of trauma and how they intersect with addictions and trained in different modalities of psychotherapy and meditation with the focus of teaching mental health awareness, identifying causes and teaching resilience so we may live a healthier happier life.

How to register? Please contact directly Jason Cusson at jcusson@stanfordhealthcare.org

ABOUT Jason Cusson