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14 Days of Mindfulness – Four Directions

April 16, 2020

Four Directions Face One Direction and inhale and exhale deeply four times. What do you smell? What do you hear? Rotate 90 degrees and repeat. What new sensations are you experiencing here? Rotate 90 degrees and repeat. Check in with your full body. Rotate 90 degrees and repeat. Invite any new sensations in.  

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14 Days of Mindfulness – Close Focus

April 13, 2020

Close Focus Find something in nature close – within one foot of you, that cannot get away. Focus on this object for a full minute. What did you notice? Did your relationship with it change at all?

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14 days of Mindfulness – Smells and Scents

Smells and Scents What scents do you notice in this space? Point your nose up and down. Open your mouth and smell again – did anything change?

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14 days of Mindfulness

When you leave this space, what thoughts/ feelings are you taking home with you and carrying with you tomorrow?

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14 days of Mindfulness

What does this space remind you of? What memories surface here?

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14 Days of Mindfulness – Soft Focus

April 10, 2020

Soft Focus Find something moving in your vicinity to watch or observe for a full minute. Rain hitting the ground, leaves blowing in the wind, a bird flying overhead…

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Vernal Pool Nature Video

April 9, 2020

This is part of a new series of educational nature videos from Reinstein Woods Vernal Pools provide an important habitat for insects and other invertebrate animals. You can often find beetles, caddisflies, phantom midge larvae, aquatic sowbugs, and scuds swimming in these shallow pools. Almost all of the creatures in the video live in a … Continue reading Vernal Pool Nature Video

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14 Days of Mindfulness

Stop and Listen Sit in one spot and close your eyes. Listen to the sounds around you. What can you hear? Try to find the closest sound and the furthest sound.

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Tips for Teaching Your Child Outside

April 7, 2020

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14 Days of Mindfulness

Need help finding gratitude? Consider reflecting on the “Thanksgiving Address” of our Haudenosaunee neighbors. “Ganö:nyök” in the Seneca language Video by the Onondaga Historical Society

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