This year, funds raised by our Mindful in May community will go towards Charity Water’s clean water projects in Uganda. It only takes $35 to transform someone’s life through clean water. So what’s the best way to spread the mindful ripple and get your family and friends to sponsor you to be mindful in May?…

May is flying by and you may be asking, what happens at the end of the month? How do I keep up my mindfulness practise? And to that question, we have one answer: meditation downloads! As with anything, you’ll feel the benefits of your practice more and more as you keep going. That’s why we’ve…

The Merrymaker Sisters created the Merrybody Online Studio and the Merrybody Method to help people learn to exercise in a way that prioritises self-respect, self-acceptance, and joy. This is the kind of movement we LOVE to support at Mindful In May, so when we found out that the duo were also avid meditators, we couldn’t…

What led you to meditation? I was becoming increasingly busy with work and struggling to find a way to focus clearly on one project at a time. I would jump between ideas and tasks constantly trying to get more done, when in reality there was less achieved. My meditation teacher, Jacqui Lewis (The Broad Place),…

So often our stress levels are compounded by the impact of our thoughts. The point of this weeks practice is that as you develop more capacity to see your thoughts rather than be your thoughts – you slowly develop more capacity to be free from the impact of thoughts. You start to have some choice…

Tara Bliss is a catalyst for growth in others, but even the steadiest growth agent needs a few supports of her own – and that’s where meditation comes in. Tara and Elise sat down to talk all things mindfulness. Elise Bialylew: What led you to meditation? Tara Bliss: It’s funny because my answer to this…

Is there anything better than a delicious, semi-healthy cheesecake recipe? We think not – and this one is courtesy of Tara Bliss. Base Ingredients Dates – 6 fresh or 8 dried Almond Meal – 1 cup Coconut oil – ½ cup Activated buckwheat Groats – ½ cup Strawberries – 250gm fresh, halved Method In a…

The Noodles Kelp noodle are fantastic in raw Pad Thai. Super crunchy and refreshing. But instead, this recipe features carrot and zucchini. They’ve then pickled them in lime juice to soften them into ‘pasta’. If you have a spiralizer or mandolin, awesome. If not, a knife works great. The Salad Sprouts. We used sunflower, buckwheat…

By Elise Bialylew   – “It is the mind that translates good and bad circumstances into happiness or misery. So happiness comes with the purging of mental toxins, such as hatred, compulsive desire, arrogance and jealousy, which literally poison the mind. It also requires that one cease to distort reality and that one cultivate wisdom.”…