Mind-Body Workshop
A mind-body workshop for first responders and outdoor athletes to optimize performance while maintaining stress resilience. This experiential training is designed to help those who work, play and perform in risk-inherent environments like the mountains optimize flow state, work with fear, and perform with a strong mind and flexible nervous system.
Attendees will:
- gain an understanding of how to self-direct their meditation training and select from the many types of meditations available.
- explore the effects of specific types of meditation, breathwork, self-regulation techniques and yoga poses on the nervous system and stress response.
- map their individual Stress Signature and use this to individualize their mind-body practice.
- gain an understanding of how to optimize flow state.
- create pre- and post-performance routines, and a daily mindfulness habit that support self-regulation, mental and emotional health, stress resilience and
performance.
As part of this workshop, attendees will develop trauma sensitivity to personal needs when working with mind-body practices. This includes creating safety, identifying stress reactions, and learning self-regulating techniques to foster choice, context and connection. This understanding additionally supports the ability to attune and attend to the nervous system needs of others.
Who we are:
Aimee Huffman is a certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT), trauma-informed yoga teacher (E-RYT 500), health coach (ACE) and former Division 1 athlete. She specializes in using the lens of Polyvagal Theory and nervous system regulation techniques to elevate human health and performance. She helps leaders, educators and competitive athletes develop the mental fitness, nervous system stamina and emotional intelligence needed to thrive in fast-paced and demanding settings. Aimee has facilitated group mindfulness, yoga and mental training sessions in education, healthcare, technology and sports since 2016.
Sasha Dingle is a skier turned meditation teacher and the founder and director of Mountain Mind Project. Sasha has competed at the highest level of skiing and mountain biking, winning the Freeskiing World Tour and competing on the Freeride World Tour and Enduro World Series. She is a qualified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher from the University of California Sand Diego School of Medicine Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Insitute (MBPTI). Since 2015, she has taught meditation in healthcare, sports performance, and leadership to audiences as varied as St. John’s Health Oncology and Diabetes, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, and MIT. Sasha is the meditation teacher in Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence video courses, a U.S. Department of State Fulbright Fellow to Vietnam and a Mind & Life Summer Research Institute Fellow. Sasha’s style of meditation is to engage fully within the inherent risk of life, refined from her time spent in the inherent risk environment of mountains. Her mission is to normalize that the health in mental health can be cultivated through meditation practice.
