Ananda Programmes provides a variety of Courses, Workshops and Presentations in Mindfulness Meditation and Mindful Living for individuals, groups, corporate business, the public sector, teachers and secondary school students in Dublin and Wicklow.
Ananda Programmes was founded in 2006 by Anne Twohig and has been offerings courses and programmes in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness in Bray, Dublin, County Wicklow and further afield since this time. Anne commenced her MBSR Teacher Trainings almost 10 years ago at the Center for Mindfulness, (CFM), University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worchester, Mass. under the direction of Dr. John Kabat-Zinn and has completed all MBSR Mindfulness Teacher Trainings there up to the level of Teacher Certification.
Anne has also assisted in MBSR Practicum Teacher Trainings in America with the Senior CFM Teachers. She hosted the first CFM Practicum Teacher Training in Ireland last August. This Training was a wonderful success with people travelling from all over the world to attend. CFM are returning again in October 2014 and also May 2015 to offer further MBSR Teacher Trainings in Ireland. Anne is an apprentice teacher with CFM with a view to being a co-teacher in future CFM Teacher Trainings.
Anne’s vast and varied experience in teaching MBSR is demonstrated in the positive results experienced by those who attend her classes. Over the past ten years Anne has facilitated courses and workshops for individuals, groups, secondary and primary students, teachers, recovering addicts and corporate business. She has a great interest in Mindfulness in education and her grand design is for Mindful Awareness to be part of the education system in Ireland so that children and young adults will have the opportunity to learn a life skill that can support them from as early an age as possible to throughout their entire life.
“In my experience of teaching Mindfulness, anyone who is open to receiving from this practice has something positive to gain.”
Mindfulness is a technique and skill to integrate awareness into our daily life. It is a way of living fully in the NOW and finding the gift and joy in each passing moment.
Mindfulness assists us develop a high level of self-awareness which allows us access our abundance of inner strength and wisdom.
Through the regular practice of mindfulness we develop our ability to experience:
- Reduced stress and to handle anxiety more effectively
- Enhanced clarity, concentration and enthusiasm for life
- The impact our thoughts have on our well being
- The innate joy and peace that resides within all of us.