Mindfulness for Parents

What do we offer?

PAAP - PARENTING AS A PRISM: New! Join this longitudinal group exploring parenting and using mindfulness as a foundational support for parenthood. Beginning early January, 2025. More info below.

MPSP - MINDFULNESS PRACTICE SPACE FOR PARENTS: Weekly 1-hour online space for parents to meditate together, talk about the application of practice to parenthood, and find support in a meditation practice community.

MS - MOVEABLE SANGHA: Supporting ongoing mindfulness practice with month-long themes. Daily meditation prompts/inspirations, weekly customized meditations, monthly online meet-ups.

INTRO TO MINDFULNESS FOR PARENTS: For those without mindfulness experience, or wanting to build their practice: 4-week Introduction to Mindfulness for Parents. You get the group together - we teach the class!

Why mindful parenting?

Contractions — moments of tightness / challenge / stress / knotted-up-ness — are a fact of life. Often there are many in our lives as parents as we deal with crying babies, screaming toddlers, fighting siblings, anxious kids, sulking teenagers, or even floundering young adults. This makes parenthood sound like so much fun, doesn't it? We all know there is another side to each of those coins, of course. But can we be in the moments that make up our lives? Can we live into them more fully? Mindfulness practice invites us to sink into all the moments of our lives, to find ease and presence no matter the weather, and to ride the inevitable waves of experiences as they move with varying speed or intensity. 

When are these offered?

MPSP meets Mondays from 830pm - 930pm. Contact us to get specifics of the sessions offered.

MS is ongoing. Alumni sign up usually in 3-mo blocks.

INTRO groups are formed by you and taught by us. Get a minimum of 5 parents together and we will teach it, accommodating your schedule.

PAAP begins January 2025. Contact us!

How does it work?

Put your baby to sleep while meditating! Or yourself. Reconnect with your practice! Or yourself. Learn mindfulness-based parenting hacks. Connect with others who are applying the practice to their parenting lives. This is a flexible space and it’s made for you. Come as you are.

Parenting as a Prism: What is This?

Parenting is a spiritual practice; it brings us to our knees, AND grows us up. 

It demands that we root down AND reach out. It is full of grunt work - physical, earthly, material, grounded…AND it is full of the immaterial stuff of existence - laughter, delight, wonder, amazement. It puts us into contact with our past AND our future while filling up our present. It is made of minute, particular details AND global, universal experiences. It is a series of contractions AND expansions, mimicking our organismic form. We raise children AND are raised by them. Parenthood is the most ordinary thing AND also the most extraordinary thing. 

Join us for 6 months of mini-retreats over a 6-mo period.  Leave the kids for an afternoon, join your partner, and sink into a circle! We'll sit and move, explore how the practice applies to life, commune with one another, and find pathways of support through practice. We will delve into parenthood as a prismatic experience - varied and brilliant, potent and powerful. And we will work with mindfulness practice as a foundational support for parenthood. January-June, 2025.