Build the skills you need to change established habits and live with freedom and ease. With kindness, warmth, and humor, Hugh Byrne brings the wisdom teachings of mindfulness together with insights from neuroscience to help you

• Understand how habits form, why they can be hard to break, and the role of mindfulness in making change

• Learn how to work with habits of wanting, resisting, distraction, and worrying

• Connect with and deepen your intention to make healthy changes

• Cultivate attitudes of kindness, acceptance, and curiosity that support habit change

• Learn to ride the waves of difficult sensations, emotions, and thoughts that can trigger unhealthy habits.

Leave with skills and practices to bring your thoughts, words, and actions into alignment with your deepest values and intentions.

Recommended reading Hugh Byrne, The Here-and-Now Habit: How Mindfulness Can Help You Break Unhealthy Habits Once and For All and the magazine article: “Are You a Creature of (Bad) Habits?”

Location: Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health