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This Mortal Life: How to Bring Color When Your Life Has Gone Gray

It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot Sometimes life can feel relentlessly mundane and soul-sucking. You find yourself stuck in traffic yet again. You scan through a pile of emails listlessly… You walk into a room only to forget what you came to retrieve… You’ve been […]
One-on-One Virtual Meditation Program for YOU!

So proud and excited to be launching my signature, one-on-one virtual meditation program. Meditation teaches you how to live with greater purpose, liberation and fulfillment. ‘Tis a radical turning away from bigger-better-faster-more to slowing down and tuning in. ‘Tis so worth doing… http://www.hallibourne.com/meditation/ Do you feel overwhelmed by daily events or circumstances beyond your […]
A Plea For Creativity

People have confused motion with progress. ~Michael Mapes I’m SO busy. I don’t think there is anyone in my life who doesn’t say this to me. I’ve said it myself, and each time I say it, I feel layers of internal conflict…my ego knows that this is the “correct” thing to say, that if I’m […]
Resetting Yourself For the New Year

Take a mini retreat with an ancient relaxation practice. YOGA NIDRA learn relaxation from the ancients a two-hour workshop with Halli Bourne Saturday, January 21, 2016 2:00-4:00pm at Wellspring Yoga, Albuquerque, NM Yoga Nidra, or ‘the sleep of yogis,’ has been used for millennia to achieve alert relaxation and heightened […]
Reining In the Distracted Mind

For many of us, feeling stressed out has become a way of life. It is important, however, to realize that feeling overwhelmed, overloaded and over-scheduled isn’t the only option for you. Understanding how your mind works can give you the power to change it. When we’re awake, our minds wander about fifty percent of the […]
When Relaxation Becomes Crucial

Stress. It is an American reality, a preoccupation and a conundrum. Stress is making us unhealthy and breathless, short on empathy and deficient of purpose. There is just so much to do, yet how many of us know why we’re doing all that we do? And how much more must we do before we’re […]
The Thrall & Detriment of Distraction: How the Focus of Meditation Can Help Us Show Up

But my brain, I realized, wasn’t just drifting. It was hungry. It was demanding to be fed the way the Net fed it—and the more it was fed, the hungrier it became… I wanted to beconnected. —Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains A reason to move through life quickly […]
YOGA NIDRA: learn relaxation from the ancients

A two-hour workshop with Halli Bourne Saturday, March 5, 2016 at Wellspring Yoga 3:00-5:00pm Yoga Nidra, or ‘the sleep of yogis,’ has been used for millennia to achieve alert relaxation and heightened inner awareness. The practice of engaging non-judgmental presence and compassionately looking within grants us the power to transform disturbances in our physical, emotional […]
Mindfulness Support For Your New Year

When you look back at the passing of 2015, are you struck by all the ways you’ve been content or do the upsetting moments come to mind? The ups and downs of daily life can challenge us all and having the right support can make all the difference. My offerings for 2016 are designed to […]
Changing the Way You Feel and Saving Yourself Suffering Through Mindfulness

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly… You must take a plunge into the water… ~ J. Krishnamurti, Meditations 1969 Consider a day in the life of […]