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3-Hour INtroduction To Mindfulness

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Mindfulness for Beginners is the program to attend if you would like to stop living on automatic pilot, reduce stress, and wake up to the fullness of life. It is a 3-hour workshop for any person looking for an in-depth exploration of the science and practice of mindfulness, and the practical ways it can positively transform your life.
This program is all about practicality. At just 3 hours, it is designed to easily fit into your day, offer you the most important aspects of mindfulness, and provide substantial follow-up resources to support implementation of the learnings moving forward. This is Cory's most popular mindfulness program, with over 5,000 people having attended. People come from all backgrounds, professions, stages of life and ages ranging from 15-95. It is designed to give you all the resources and understanding you need to integrate mindfulness into your life in a meaningful way, learn how to meditate, and start living your life with intention.
✔  ​​Start Living Your Life Fully

✔  Find Real Happiness

✔  Save Years of Learning
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"Cory Muscara is one of the nation's leading experts in mindfulness meditation."

-Dr. Oz
The Dr. Oz Show
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Online
​MINDFULNESS Retreat

June 5-7, 2020

Holiday Inn Plainview
215 Sunnyside Blvd, NY

$145

Included in this rate are all follow-up materials: 10 guided meditations, 7-Page Mindfulness Starter Kit, post-class webinar, and my 31-Day Mindfulness Course. Learn more about course materials below.
Register
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Having taught and refined this program over 50 times to over 5,000 people, and heard the consistently positive feedback, I have confidence that you will find MORE value than you expected from this program. If, for any reason you are unsatisfied, we will refund 100% of your money.
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What are the benefits of mindfulness practice?

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​Reduce Stress

​Chronic anxiety and stress are linked to a variety of mental and physical illnesses.  Through simple, powerful mindfulness techniques you can learn to worry less and live more.
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Stay Focused

Our ability to focus is key to all the things we want to accomplish in life.  Mindfulness practice can help us reduce mental clutter and restore our natural clarity and focus of mind.
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Be More Present

Do you find it hard to be fully present for the most important things in your life?  Mindfulness helps you work with distraction and emotions and hold intimacy with your partner, children, and friends.

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"Cory Muscara is one
of my favorite meditation teachers."


-Dan Harris
Author, 10% Happier
Anchor, Good Morning America
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Your Brain Changes When You Meditate

We can look at mindfulness meditation as a form of mental fitness. The latest neuroscience suggests that a mindfulness meditation practice can change the physical structure of your brain, leading to greater calm, clarity, peace and focus.
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✔  Enhance Hippocampus (working memory)
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✔  Develop Your Insula (emotion regulation)​

✔  Shrink your Amygdala (stress reactivity)
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In the same way that you would go to the gym to develop your physical strength, mindfulness meditation is a way that we can develop our mental strength. The cool thing about meditation, is once you learn it, you can do it anywhere.
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Given the current world of distraction that we live in, it's increasingly important to train the parts of our brains that allow us to stay present, focused, calm and connected with others. 
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​It's this reason that many people consider mindfulness meditation to be a super power! Not because it's anything mystical, but because it develops the human qualities that are becoming increasingly rare.
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Is Mindfulness Meditation Right for Me?

Anyone can practice mindfulness. It doesn’t matter how old you are, what physical shape you’re in, whether you’re religious or not. These practices are all about helping you restore your natural clarity and ability to be present; they’re about giving you back what you already have, about helping you show up fully for your life.

Everyone will be sitting in chairs for the workshop, and there is the option to stand, if you'd prefer. You do not need to worry about sitting on the floor and getting into any uncomfortable posture. That is not a requirement for mindfulness practice!
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About your instructor

An international speaker and teacher on the topics of mindfulness and positive psychology, Cory is passionate about helping people find real peace. He believes that when people are deeply fulfilled, they are a better force in the world for other beings, the environment, and their communities. 

A graduate of the 2-year Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader training, Cory has several years of extensive professional training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR); certification with Mindful Schools and the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI); and training in Mindfulness-Based Inquiry, Breathworks Chronic Pain with Vidyamala Burch, and trauma-informed mindfulness through the Trauma Institute led by Bessel Van der Kolk. He is a 200-hour hatha yoga teacher, certified NLP & Eriksonian Hypnosis practitioner, an Integrative Health Coach through Duke Integrative Medicine, and most recently completed a 6-month relational meditation training in “circling” through Circling Europe.​
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Cory Muscara, Mapp

In 2012, Cory spent 6 months in silence living as a monk in Burma, meditating 14+ hours each day, and now aims to bring the teachings of mindfulness to people in a practical and usable way, presenting to schools, organizations and the general public. For the past few years, he has taught mindfulness-based leadership at Columbia University and currently serves as an assistant instructor for the positive psychology graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed his graduate work. He has been featured multiple times on the Dr. Oz show, is a teacher on the Simple Habit and 10% Happier meditation apps, and his meditations have been heard more than 6 million times in over 50 countries.
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What you get in this workshop

The exploration and understanding of mindfulness is a life-long process. There are always new unfoldings, understandings, insights and growth points that come with a mindfulness practice. However, in this workshop, Cory takes the key concepts from mindfulness and relates it to the most pertinent aspects of daily life. We cover A LOT in this workshop. Yes, we meditate, but the majority of it is hearing the best ways to think about and integrate mindfulness in your daily life. It is a highly engaging, interactive and impactful 3 hours. In the workshop, we explore:
  • ✔  What mindfulness is and how to cultivate it

  • ✔  The root cause of stress and how mindfulness directly impacts it

  • ✔  Mindful Eating to explore savoring and beginner's mind

  • ✔  Communicate and Listen with Greater Presence and Kindness

  • ✔  The minimal amount of minutes of meditation necessary for structural changes in the brain

  • ✔  The difference between Primary Pain and Secondary Pain(and why you're caught in Secondary Pain)

  • ✔  How to Stop Living on Automatic Pilot and start being present for your life
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  • ✔  How to work with difficult, self-defeating and ruminating thoughts
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what participants have said about this workshop....

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I've been practicing meditation for years and now have an entirely new appreciation for the practice.
Thank you for rekindling my love for meditation.    J.T.
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This workshop was life-changing. I cannot believe how much I
​learned in 3 hours.  
M.R.
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"I was skeptical to take this time out of my day. I'm so glad I did.
​It was the best investment of time and money I've made in the last 5 years."
L.M.
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As a participant of this workshop, you also get these special bonuses:

Bonus # 1

7-Page Mindfulness Starter Kit

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This starter kit contains all the resources, tips, strategies that you need to maintain and go deeper into your mindfulness practice after the workshop. It includes:​
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  • Cory's Top Mindfulness Book Recommendations

  • Best Meditation Apps

  • Practical Tips & Strategies to implement mindfulness, presence and ease into your life

  • Methods for Sustaining a Meditation Practice

  • Research Articles demonstrating the Science of Mindfulness
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  • Mindfulness Resources for Kids​
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Bonus # 2

Guided Meditations for
Focus, Stress Reduction, and Improved Sleep

In this series of meditations, you'll receive:​
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  • Sitting Meditations - Four sitting meditations of lengths ranging from 5-30 minutes. 

  • Body Scan Meditation - Designed to help reconnect with your body, release tension, and reduce pain.

  • Sleep Meditations - You'll receive 5 of Cory's signature sleep meditations that will help you calm your mind before bed, settle down your body, and help you resettle when you're up in the middle of the night!
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Bonus # 3

31-day Mindfulness Course

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This is Cory's most popular online program. It was designed specifically to help people get in the habit of daily mindfulness practice, while also learning something new about the science of mindfulness and positive psychology.

This audio series includes:​
  • 5 Distinct Modules that help you get grounded, reconnect with yourself, create a vision for the future, and then step into your best self

  • 31 Unique Topics, ranging from Letting Go, Forgiveness, Cultivating Strengths, Developing Optimism, and working with Triggers.
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  • A daily Meditation and Podcast sent to your inbox, no longer than 5-7 minutes each!
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Bonus # 4

Follow-up webinar!

Was there a question you forgot to ask at the workshop? Do you need some clarity around your practice? Have you attended workshops like this in the past, and wished you could have a follow-up session?

Well, around one month after our workshop, we will have a free webinar open to all participants!
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  • Ask questions related to your meditation practice and how it's been to implement mindfulness into your lifestyle
  • Get a Refresher on topics we covered in the workshop
  • Learn Something New as Cory will offer follow-up teaching that builds on the workshop
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Space is Limited! Register Today:

MINDFULNESS
FOR 

BEGINNERS

​Sunday, October 6th, 2019
10am-1pm

Holiday Inn Plainview
215 Sunnyside Blvd, NY

$145

Included in this rate are all follow-up materials: 10 guided meditations, 7-Page Mindfulness Starter Kit, post-class webinar, and my 31-Day Mindfulness Course. 
Register
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Satisfaction Guarantee

Having taught and refined this program over 50 times to over 5,000 people, and heard the consistently positive feedback, I have confidence that you will find MORE value than you expected from this program. If, for any reason you are unsatisfied, we will refund 100% of your money.

Plainview, NY

October 6th, 10am-1pm
Holiday Inn Plainview
215 Sunnyside Blvd, NY
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