Mind Body Solutions

Team Adaptables - Monthly Meeting
2024-10-02 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-09-04 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-08-07 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-07-03 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-06-05 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-05-01 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-03-06 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
We are a team of superheroes who identify living with a disability as a fundamental feature of their lives. We believe that DISability does not mean UNability, but rather, it is ability that has traveled through the worlds of shadow and reflection. We believe that disability creates wisdom and needs to be shared.
We meet virtually on the first Wednesday of every month for a content-rich hour at 1 pm Central time. Registered students will receive a zoom link an hour before each meeting.
We laugh, tell stories, share yoga, and support each other. We create content and conversation that are centered around the real experience of disability. We create learning, growing, and healing opportunities for each other and sometimes for the world at large.

Mind Body Reads Book Club September 2024
2024-09-28 11:15 - 12:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81150292194?pwd=[REDACTED]
Sharing humanity through literature
This is a free and welcoming space where stories deepen the connections within and among us. We welcome everyone to join us each month to explore, together. To make this a truly accessible and open space, all selections will be available in both printed and audio format. Additionally, a shorter selection will be available each month and it’s okay if you haven’t read the whole book. Come anyway!

September 28 Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
Short Selection: How Yoga Unlocks the Writer Within by Dani Shapiro

Team Adaptables - Practice Huddle
2024-09-18 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-08-21 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-07-17 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-06-19 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-05-15 13:00 - 13:30, 2024-03-20 13:00 - 13:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82187740939
Join us for the Team Huddle; a student-led 10-minute mind-body practice!

Mind Body Reads Book Club August 2024
2024-08-31 11:30 - 12:45 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81150292194?pwd=[REDACTED]
Sharing humanity through literature
This is a free and welcoming space where stories deepen the connections within and among us. We welcome everyone to join us each month to explore, together. To make this a truly accessible and open space, all selections will be available in both printed and audio format. Additionally, a shorter selection will be available each month and it’s okay if you haven’t read the whole book. Come anyway!
August 31 Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones
Short Selection: Chloe Cooper Jones on Writing About Disability and Engaging with Beauty

Mind Body Reads Book Club - July 2024
2024-07-27 11:15 - 12:00 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81150292194?pwd=[REDACTED]
This is a free and welcoming space where stories deepen the connections within and among us. We welcome everyone to join us each month to explore, together. To make this a truly accessible and open space, all selections will be available in both printed and audio format. Additionally, a shorter selection will be available each month and it’s okay if you haven’t read the whole book. Come anyway!
Mark your calendars for the last Saturday of every month, from 11:15-12:30 Central Time, and JOIN US as we share humanity through literature.
July 27 Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
Or
Short Selection Space and Infinite with Alan Lightman

Mind Body Reads Book Club - June 2024
2024-06-22 11:15 - 12:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81150292194?pwd=[REDACTED]
Sharing humanity through literature
This is a free and welcoming space where stories deepen the connections within and among us. We welcome everyone to join us each month to explore, together. To make this a truly accessible and open space, all selections will be available in both printed and audio format. Additionally, a shorter selection will be available each month and it’s okay if you haven’t read the whole book. Come anyway!

June 22 | The Dog Says How by Kevin Kling
Description: Captivating stories of growing up, traveling the world, and relying on the strangeness of others bring Kling fans to their feet and a fresh audience to its knees—bowled over by laughter.
Or
Short Selection Tickled Pink by Kevin Kling

MindBody Reads Book Club
2024-05-25 11:15 - 12:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81150292194?pwd=[REDACTED]
Sharing humanity through literature
This is a free and welcoming space where stories deepen the connections within and among us. We welcome everyone to join us each month to explore, together. To make this a truly accessible and open space, all selections will be available in both printed and audio format. Additionally, a shorter selection will be available each month and it’s okay if you haven’t read the whole book. Come anyway!

May 25 | The Women by Kristin Hannah
Or
Short Selection The Hunter’s Wife by Anthony Doerr

MBS Reads Book Club
2024-04-27 11:15 - 12:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81150292194?pwd=[REDACTED]
Sharing humanity through literature
This is a free and welcoming space where stories deepen the connections within and among us. We welcome everyone to join us each month to explore, together. To make this a truly accessible and open space, all selections will be available in both printed and audio format. Additionally, a shorter selection will be available each month and it’s okay if you haven’t read the whole book. Come anyway!
Saturday, April 27, 11:15-12:30 Central Time
April’s Book Selection is:
No Cure For Being Human By Kate Bowler
Available Online
Or
Short Selection: Sequence of blessings: Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day! By Kate Bowler
Link: https://katebowler.com/download/excerpt-from-have-a-beautiful-terrible-day/

Kiss My Asana Yogathon Huddle Practices
2024-04-14 13:00 - 13:15 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82187740939
For – Kiss My Asana Participants – a daily, live practice led by MBS students to celebrate the 11th Annual Yogathon!

11th Annual Kiss My Asana Yogathon Kickoff
2024-04-13 10:00 - 11:00 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86013009411
Join us live on Zoom to kick off the 11th Annual Kiss My Asana Yogathon!

Yoga, Disability, and Transformation - Disability, Trauma, and the Subtle Body
2023-12-06 11:00 - 12:30 | https://www.mindbodysolutions.org/event/yoga-disability-and-transformation-disability-trauma-and-the-subtle-body/
To riff off of a famous Rumi quote, Beyond mind and body, there is a field. I will meet disability and trauma there. Anyone who lives with disability and trauma knows firsthand that its effects are beyond physical and psychological, even beyond emotional. The experience occurs at a nearly indescribable nexus of different threads within human experience. At MBS, we often describe this nexus of human sensation as the subtle body. In this session, participants share how the experience of disability and trauma land within their bodies, not just physically, psychologically, and emotionally, but within this ‘other’ category of subtle body sensation. Our shared yoga practice focuses on how yoga poses create a sense of movement, direction, and even lightness in the field beyond mind and body.

2023 Yoga, Disability, and Transformation - Being Heard by Those Who Can't Listen
2023-09-06 11:00 - 12:30 | https://www.mindbodysolutions.org/event/2023-yoga-disability-and-transformation-finding-your-voice-part-ii/
Too often, living with a disability is like being in a community of one, even among our closest friends and family. Often our loved ones are the worst listeners because they want to help so badly. This problem of not being heard only amplifies when we interact with the culture at large…and we also know yelling not only makes matters worse but also wears us out. In this session, we share stories of epic successes and failures when attempting to make ourselves truly heard by people who cannot easily listen. Our shared yoga practice focuses on realizing the body’s grounding space, so we do not lose our minds in this communication abyss.

2023 Yoga, Disability, and Transformation - Breathing and Disability
2023-05-03 11:00 - 12:30 | https://www.mindbodysolutions.org/event/2023-yoga-disability-and-transformation-2/
Breathing is not easy for everyone, but it is essential…obviously. For many of us living with a wide array of disabilities, breathing cannot be relied upon as a default enlightenment tool. In this session, we share stories of breathing, singing, and of laughter. We also discuss the all-too-prevalent adaptive yoga assumption that the experience of disability can improve with a single breath Our shared yoga practice emphasizes the grounded body sensations that underpin quality breathing. In other words, we explore how to breathe with your whole body regardless of physical hindrances.

2023 Yoga, Disability, Transformation - Being Heard by Those Who Can't Listen
2023-03-01 11:00 - 12:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82496001018
In this second installment of Stories for a Better Life, we continue sharing identity stories with a slightly different emphasis. In Part I, we shared our evolving identify stories for living with our disabilities – from victimhood to survivorship to stories that neither prioritize nor deny identifying in terms of disability. Watch Part I here. In Part II, we share stories demonstrating the evolution from stories we tell ourselves for courage and stories intended to change the perception surrounding disability. Our shared yoga practice draws upon the connection between our ability to distinguish different body sensations and our ability to distinguish our different stories. (No prior yoga experience required.)

9th Annual Kiss My Asana Yogathon
2022-04-23 10:30 - 2022-04-30 17:00
Join a global community practicing with a singular purpose — to help improve the lives of people living with trauma, loss, and disability. Your 7-day (self-directed) yoga or meditation practice will ceate profound change for YOU and someone living with a disability. Dedicate your (yoga or meditation) practice the week of April 23-29 to help us raise awareness and essential funds to support our Adaptive Yoga Program. It’s easy – and FUN! Simply DO yoga – wherever you do yoga! Kiss My Asana® is a virtual event, meaning your yoga practice can happen anywhere – at a yoga studio, a community center, or at home… wherever you put your mat or chair!
Join Us Today!!

Brains, Bodies, Trauma and the Arc of Healing
2021-12-04 08:30 - 16:00
Join Matthew Sanford as he discusses body-centered treatment strategies with some of the most important voices in the field of trauma recovery.
December 4, 2021 @ 9:30 am – 5:00 pm ET – Live | Virtual Event | 6 CE credits
This interactive, all-day, 4-part workshop features an array of leading, trauma-centered practitioners in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, resilience, storytelling, and yoga.
Join author and adaptive yoga pioneer Matthew Sanford as he leads separate conversations with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, MD (best-selling author), Dr. Ruth Lanius MD, PhD (leading neuroscience researcher and clinician), Dr. Daniel Libby (founder, Veterans Yoga Project), and renowned storyteller Kevin Kling (author and playwright). They will discuss body-centered rationale and treatment strategies for helping survivors heal and recover from traumatic experiences.
Each 90-minute segment includes a 60-minute conversation with the featured presenter, Q&A session, and an experiential, body-centered, 30-minute practice inspired by each particular conversation.
$150 Tuition
Limited financial assistance available. Questions? Email amy@mindbodysolutions.org
REGISTER HERE

TRF Film Festival Feature: Standing Standing Still/Still Standing
2021-11-13 11:00 - 12:30
‘Standing Standing/Still Standing’ is a short documentary that captures the real-time transformations of three people for whom a paraplegic yoga instructor with an unconventional method is a last hope.

Watch the film: Saturday, Nov 13th 12:00pm ET / 11:00am CT / 9:00am PT
Live Q&A after the film with:

Matthew Sanford, Founder and President of Mind Body Solutions
Andrew Walton, Film Director
Angelique Lele, Film Subject

Meditation Retreat
2021-11-07 10:00 - 12:00 | https://www.mindbodysolutions.org/event/meditation-retreat/
Put The World Down For A While
Meditation is a time to simply stop and turn our attention inward. It is a time to notice how we are feeling, notice where we carry tension, and learn that it is possible to relax.
Putting aside our usual responsibilities and spending time being fully present with our body and mind is the first step in developing a meditation practice. This two-hour retreat provides an opportunity for extended guided meditation practice with a variety of techniques that can help transform the deep, unhelpful habits that create stress in our lives.
The retreat is offered freely by teachers Nancy Boler and Jennie Ross and is open to anyone interested in digging deep into this transformative work.
Your support helps us to continue offering programs like these. If you’d like to make a donation to Mindbody Solutions, any amount is gratefully received.

Kiss my Asana® Yogathon 2021
2021-04-24 - 2021-04-30 | https://www.mindbodysolutions.org/event/kiss-my-asana-yogathon-2021/
Join a global community practicing with a singular purpose — to help improve the lives of people living with trauma, loss, and disability. Your 7-day (self-directed) yoga or meditation practice will create profound change for YOU and someone living with a disability. Dedicate your (yoga or meditation) practice the week of April 24-30 to help us raise awareness and essential funds to support our Adaptive Yoga Program. During the yogathon week, all participants will receive daily insights from our founder, Matthew Sanford – delivered each morning via email.
