Jill Cressy’s innovative and experiential approach inspire you to integrate wellness and mindfulness throughout the day. Jill facilitates interactive wellness sessions on a variety of topics including:
Integrating Mindfulness into our Daily Life:
Enjoy an experiential mindfulness practice that includes a body scan, mindfulness meditation techniques, breath awareness, and movement. Learn mindful exercises that you can integrate into your daily life to improve focus, increase productivity, manage stress and enhance well-being.
Health Education to Take Care of Your Body:
Learn the key steps to “make it fit”! We’ll chat about movement, energy, nutrition, hydration, mindfulness, sleep, rest and recovery. Enjoy exercises that fit into your day, even when you are in front of your computer or other types of electronic devices. Improve your posture and develop mindful awareness when using your phone. Practice daily self-care, feel more alert, maintain a strong immune system, and experience greater vitality!
Energy Flow:
Enjoy a movement practice inspired by dance, t’ai chi, tae kwon do, aikido, feldenkrais, alexander technique, yoga, and mindful fitness. Feel inspired and increase energy flow throughout your day!
Exercises to Support Change:
Learn valuable principles from dance, sport, martial arts and yoga that give us the tools to shift our energy, pivot turn when needed, manage the push and pull of life, and adjust to changing circumstances. Explore a variety of exercises that help us be more flexible and adaptable. Also learn innovative techniques to decrease fear, increase creativity, improve resiliency, and transform challenges into opportunities!
Moving towards a Mindful Life:
Experience a movement practice that links several yoga poses together in a mindful way while integrating principles of alignment grounded in exercise science. We’ll focus on exercise safety, breath awareness, and mindfulness. Bring consciousness to each movement and come home to the present moment. Feel motivated to take the practice beyond the mat and move towards a mindful life!
Skills for Effective Listening & Healthy Relationships:
Be able to apply effective listening in your relationships and better understand the needs of others. Develop active listening skills from inviting information to acknowledging information. Learn techniques to encourage the speaker and clarify questions. Practice restating key points, reflecting feelings, and validating. Explore effective invitations for dialogue including listening attitudes and be able to ask questions that “ride” instead of “drive”. Learn exercises to stretch your heart and experience more compassion. Also be able to apply assertiveness skills when you need to make your needs more clear.
Techniques & Tips to Enhance Speaking Skills:
Learn exercises that you can practice prior to important meetings or presentations to warm-up your voice and speak with vocal strength and stamina. Develop awareness of body language and voice tone and understand other speech components including speaking rhythm, vocal placement, inflection, pitch, speaking rate, and the significance of a “pause”. Move beyond the emphasis on voice projection; speak more softly when it’s appropriate, show up more authentically, and shift the volume of your voice with elegance and grace. Reduce unnecessary words, feel more grounded, and improve the health of your voice!
Keys to Happier Living:
In this interactive wellness session, we’ll reflect on the keys to happier living based on a review of scientific research relating to happiness. We’ll also address some of the limitations of pursuing an individual approach to happiness. In addition, we’ll discuss the potential challenges of happier living during difficult times such as the current pandemic. We’ll also share strategies to inspire “flourishing” – feeling good and positive functioning for sustainable well-being. Engage in reflective conversation, learn practical action steps that we can take to support happier living, and be inspired to put the science of well-being into practice.
Here at Home:
Where do you feel “at home”? It could be a physical place outside in nature or a space in which we dance and move. It could be defined by relationships we have. It could denote experiences such as participating in a sport or martial arts class that provides a sense of community and belonging. It could also be a virtual setting in which you feel comfortable, safe and welcome. How do you know when you feel at home? What things challenge or expand our concept of being at home? What are the potential obstacles we might face as we seek to feel at home? How can we overcome these obstacles and what can we do as a community to help others feel more at home? Explore these questions and more in this interactive group workshop. We’ll also engage in mindful practices that focus on being “at home” in the present moment.
Mental Health Training:
Learn how to identify when someone is experiencing a mental health challenge. Be able to engage them in a conversation to better understand their needs and connect them with an appropriate and helpful referral. Identify resources or services that you can refer them to and apply the key strategies to making an effective referral. We’ll also reflect on the variety of ways that we can support our own mental health.
If you would like Jill Cressy to facilitate a wellness session, please contact Jill and let her know your interest:
