The concept of the Mindful Gym was born out of combining my love for the gym with mindfulness. I believe the Mindful Gym™ is truly a revolution in health care. Combining the wisdom of both Western and Eastern Healing arts and science, along with movement, breath and mindful living activities, the Mindful Gym is designed and has been researched to address almost every condition of the human body. Dis-eases like chronic pain, emotional, physical, sexual trauma, acute injury, insomnia, addictions, etc, are all being relieved if not completely cured by using these exercises in mindfulness.



THE NEED:
The challenge: In today's society we are increasingly plagued with dis-ease and mental/physical stress that we are not able to access because 1) we are not aware of them and 2) when we are aware we don't have the right tools to use and 3) we self soothe in destructive ways because we don't know other ways to heal ourselves.

DENIAL: when we can't deal, we just ignore a problem, put it "to the side, down, away". All of these directions of placements then become energy patterns that really just lye in the physical-emotional body stored as old trauma. Pain and suffering come from not being in touch with your body on an emotional level so we need to first "touch-in" and find places that have been stuck so then we can move through with conscious awareness and unhook these places for our own healing.

HOW is the mindful gym useful?: We are disconnected at a core level and physically , mentally and spiritually we need to be in touch with our whole selves to achieve complete mind/body wellness.

Solution: complete integration of mindful fitness that address every dimension including conscious bodywork, psycho-spiritual exercises, movement and psychotherapy.

Note from Alison Leigh, MFT: founder of The Mindful Gym™
After almost 20 years in development and practice I bring to you the Mindful Gym. The MG is a total mind/body/spiritual
workout that is founded on more than 30 different practices. I have taken the best and most relevant exercises,
movements, and body practices out of this foundation to develop and create what i believe will be the beginning of a revolutionary mind/body practice that will be spread locally and globally.

There are so many reasons for the development, implementation and application of the MG that it has been challenging on so many fronts’ mainly because the system is so intricate and complex yet at the same time, easy to do and understandable for anyone trying it for the first time.

Benefits of The Mindful Gym include:
*increased vitality, circulation, physical/spiritual awareness
* reduced stress and ability to manage it easily
* sound sleep
* reduced cortisol levels
* relief from arthritis, addictions, and many other medical conditions
* allergy and asthma symptom relief
* lower blood pressure
*increased mobility, flexibility, freedom of movement
*better understanding of the complexities of our psyche
*toned body, toned muscular system
*reduction in physiological symptoms of trauma
*overall better attitude toward life

Planet Mindful, "Your place to be"

At Planet Mindful, we take "being" seriously; however we don't take ourselves too seriously. Our plan is to bring forward conscious awareness (mindfulness) into every day situations. By allowing ourselves and others to "just be", we create an atmosphere of non-judgment, radical acceptance and peace. All too often we find ourselves stressed out and hurried. We don't have the time or patience to really "hear" ourselves. If we listen closely, with full attention to the body, mind and spirit, especially in silent meditation, then we can entertain the notion that "doing" may be just a means to an end; where "being" is practicing the present vs. focusing on end results. My goal for planet mindful is to ultimately reach the masses through education, humor, personal stories and reality based manifestations of earthly desires. (that means "stuff"). My job is to educate you in the reality of your own existence, as you are here on this planet. I can do that through talking, walking, meditating, dancing, creating, circulating, transforming, igniting, and so many other different avenues. Your job is to relate to me what you desire in yourself as you will be the active participant.

In theory, nobody can help you but yourself. We've all heard that before. But, it's really true. When i work with people it's often so they can come to terms with the fact that they have missed some true meaning in their life somewhere along the way. It is my job to help you find yourself, your life's purpose and do it with consciousness, awareness and with mindfulness.

I am writing this blog on the eve of a beautiful full moon and hope that our Planet receives all that it has give which is an endless supply of acceptance and love.
"If you can't do, then BE"

Planet Mindful, Inc.
Alison Leigh Siegel, MFT
2121 26th Street #202
San Francisco, Ca 94107
Meetup with other like minds...RED HOT
http://www.meetup.com/Red-Hot-Minds-A-Mindfulness-Meetup-Group-San-Francisco/

More on mindfulness

so, mindfulness, #1 is a state of being. I explained a bit about being in the last post, but much to the credit of many many healers and sages that came before me, i am in no way stating anything new. In fact, one of the reasons i got into this "state of being' was because of my hectic lifestyle. I know others can resonate with this. In fact, anxiety and stress are among the most common threats/killers of the human race today.
Okay, back to "being". Did you hear that? The sentence before "in fact, anxiety and stress..." can be examined to demonstrate this point. Most often, people tend to listen and either react, judge, interpret and/or think about an answer or comment about what they just read. When you read that sentence, what did you think of? What did you interpret? My point is this:
When you are Being, you are not thinking, analysizing, interpreting, or anything of the like. In fact, YOUR BRAIN is not actually necessarily even in the cognitive state. (more on that later). Point being that if you catch yourself doing ANY number of things while listening or reading this blog, you can go ahead and NOTICE that and then IDENTIFY your reaction.

So, here is a little quiz:
1) if i am reacting,judging or interpreting, am i being mindful? No.
2) So how do i become more mindful? I'll explain in the next blog.

What is mindfulness?

In my own words, mindfulness is a state of being. A state of being is not a state of doing, but rather of being. Being is differentiated by the following factors.
1) In a state of being, you don't "do" anything. You don't "think", act, or react. In fact, according to the concepts found in the ancient art and science of Aikido, http://www.aikidofaq.com/introduction.html, we don't move forward "into", but rather allow the force to actually "move" us. In other words, imagine someone coming at you with an object (friendly i hope, but suppose not), what would you do? Some might instantly react, get frazzled and fight back. Others, if they know "the way", would see the force of movement coming toward them, follow it (more on this later) and duck, leap, get out of the way. Due to the non-force (some may call it non-violence) the energy of the force of the natural object then ceases to destroy or hurt one. In other words, you have gotten out of the way but not failed nor have done anything but allow the objective force to actually boomerang back into existence. Because of the law of physics, the force then will ultimately create a backlash, so to speak, and make the other object (person or weapon) fall down or fall away because he/she has now lost their balance.

MINFUL MOVEMENTS: By Alison Leigh, Mindfulness Instructor

Welcome to MM (Mindful Movements, Inc.)
We would like to share some mindful movements which incorporate
a) yoga
b) mindfulness
c) meditation
d) guided imagery
e) dance
f) fitness

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*Instructional and useful VIDEOS (with Alison leigh)