How can I change anything by sitting still in meditation? Whether you sit still or move in mindfulness, there’s a lot going on silently beneath the surface. Mindfulness not only silently transforms your brain but also develops key areas of awareness, crucial to your health and wellbeing. Explore the neurobiological secrets behind the five awareness skills, cultivated in mindfulness and their powerful impact on your mental, physical health and emotional wellbeing

Need to find work-life balance? Build solid foundations of resilience and sustainable wellbeing with “The Mindful Game of Zen-ga”. Explore how different organisational cultures and expectations, can lead us to stress, anxiety and overwhelm and even burnout, if gone unmanaged. And how awareness, breathing practices, intentions and attitudes of mindfulness, can be the key to maintaining our stability, physical and mental health.

Life’s struggles left you spinning? Discover your world of connection on the Circle of Compassion. Learn how compassion can be turned outwardly and inwardly to support physical, mental and emotional health. How cultivating this powerful emotional response, with mindfulness, can help alleviate stress and anxiety in life and rewire our brains for positivity and resilience. And by showing compassion towards others, foster a sense of belonging, trust, support and empathetic bonding.

Need to find flow? Get in the zone? Balancing our stress levels with pressure and workload is the key to productivity and healthy balance in work. Too much Stress and we burnout, too little and we are inactive or bored. Take these four crucial steps to find your goldilocks zone: building stress and self-awareness, regular stress assessment and effective mindfulness based stress management techniques

Stress taking you for a ride? Why not take a spin on the “Carousel of Stress” and discover 95 eye-catching insights. Learn how stress impacts our physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing and lead to Burnout. How self-caring habits and stress interventions like Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, can provide powerful tools, resources and coping strategies too.

How we found balance in times of Stress at the Make-A-Wish “No Limits CEO and Chair Summit” in Utrecht. A morning plenary sharing the origins and impact of stress, from acute to chronic, which impact our performance, physical and emotional wellbeing and put us on a road to burnout. Interactive workshops giving practical tools and strategies to bring calm, focus and balance. So we respond, not just react to stress.

Not sure where to start in Mindfulness? Find your new beginning on “The Wheel of Mindfulness” and discover 88 inspiring ways to can find a life of greater happiness and wellbeing. Learn the attitudes, practices and benefits of mindfulness for your health and management of Stress. Discover guides and resources and the most common myths, along your journey too.

Got plenty of reasons to be grateful? Discover your “6 Mindful Gifts of Gratitude” to help you rewire your brain for positivity and build a greater sense of wellbeing and happiness. Learn how cultivating gratitude can lower stress levels, enhance emotional regulation, and build lasting resilience in life and work.

Tired of restless nights, struggling for sleep? Explore the “8 mindful paths to healthy sleep” through the wellbeing enhancing powers of Mindfulness. Learn how it improves sleep quality and efficiency, reduces stress and rumination and helps regulate emotions. Discover 8 practices and guided meditations to help you put sleep troubles behind you. And experience a healthier, happier, more rested you.

Discover the 6 Mindful powers of The Breath. We breath at least 17,000 times a day but barely pay attention. And yet, our breath is a powerful way to unlock vitality, tranquility, focus, balance, renewal, and transformation for better physical and mental, health and wellbeing. Learn how conscious and controlled breathing influences cognitive function, helps regulates the autonomic nervous system, lowers our stress levels and allows us to cultivates a sense of calm and ease.

Learn about the health impact of allostatic load and how chronic stress can take a toll on your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Allostatic Load leads to a long list of health issues - including high blood pressure, hypertension, hormonal imbalances, immune dysfunction, sleep and mood disorders, cognitive decline, anxiety, and emotional reactivity. Explore the 4 types of allostatic load and their effects on our stress response. And how you can reduce allostatic load through exercise, stress management, self-care and healthy habits social support and connection and healthy habits.

June is jam-packed with joy, hope and happiness. A favourite for weddings and fun times for exuberant exam finishers. Hopeful new beginnings all round. We hit the outdoors in droves, unpacking summer sandals and packing out parks, beaches and the first festivals. A nostalgic time, with longer evenings to reminisce on the good old days. And a long summer ahead to make new memories. A perfect time of year to take up a hobby, plan more moments of self-care, or simply enjoy more time in nature, while the weather is fine.

Stress, chronic stress and burnout has hit the headlines more than ever before in recent years. A global pandemic, mass layoffs and resignations adding to the well known physical, mental and emotional difficulties we all experience as a result. But the Stages of Stress have been around for a long time! Nearly 90 years, since Hans Seyle proposed “The General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS Model) in 1936

In a month bursting with growth and the promise of renewal, where are all the Words for Waking Waves? From audio courses to wellbeing guides, new courses to new membership updates, there’s no shortage of mindfulness and wellbeing boosting surprises. Here’s a few windows into all things living Mindfully.

Spring equinox is the moment for rebirth, re-connection and renewal. A time when everyone in the world shares the same amount of daylight. A perfect time to invest in health, wellbeing and happiness boosting habits - to build our resilience against stress, anxiety and fatigue. To find a mindful moment of connection with what matters - with ourselves, with those we care for, or with nature. To find a space where all of this is possible: Waking Waves of Connection.

Emerging from our winter slumber, Spring is the season for rebirth and renewal. For re-connecting with the things that matter the most. For bringing our attention to our habits, or households need! It’s a time to intentionally connect with friends, loved ones and the things we are passionate about. To become mindfully aware of our needs and to make mentally healthy choices about where we invest energy. Spending more time in nature and more time building connection with the people and things that mean the most to us

A mindful year of happiness, health and wellbeing tips. Monthly inspired themes filled with activities, events and ideas for home or work. All intended to support physical and mental health and emotional wellbeing. Offering moments to pause and reflect intentional moments to cultivate greater compassion and connection with others

With the festive season soon upon us and the end of year in sight, December can see us rushing around preparing for indulgence. But often the things we seek - special moments with family and friends, moments of reflection, a spirit of generosity - can be missed. So it helps to intentionally fill our days with moments of generosity and celebration and allow space for more reflection and connection, with the people and experiences which bring us happiness and health.

Waking Waves helps Disability Sports Coach, to mindfully pause and reflect on how stress affects their physical and mental health in life and work. Sharing self-supportive tools, practices and resources to enable greater focus, calm and connection in the workplace and beyond. With the cost of stress going beyond workplace illness, absence and resignations, affecting our performance and our relationships, organisations are intentionally investing in the health, happiness and wellbeing of their teams.

Caught between Christmas and the close of Autumn, November is always a bit in the middle. And with clocks going back, the longer nights are mean winter is coming! A clear sign we need to make our needs the centre of attention. Being more mindful of our health and wellbeing, more conscious of our loved ones. And more intentional about engaging in meaningful and purposeful habits. We need a Nourishing November.