A Six-Week Course for Integrating & Applying Mindfulness in Your Life
Available exclusively online
You’re Not Alone in This
You meditate. You work on yourself. Yet you still feel overwhelmed by everything you need to address—the habits draining your energy, the relationship dynamics you can’t quite navigate, the spaces that don’t support you, the routines that keep slipping away.
Maybe you’re working on all of this in isolation, not sure if others struggle the same way. Or you’ve “scratched the surface” of integration but haven’t found a way to bring it all together.
What if there was a container that could hold all of it?
This 4-week course offers that container—a sanctuary where you can pause, reflect, and reconnect with what truly matters. With heart-centered guides and a community of like-minded individuals, you’ll discover how to integrate mindfulness into every facet of your life: your spaces, routines, communication, relationships, and the big areas that hold you back.
We see you, and we walk this path with you.
Integrating Mindfulness Helps You...
- Strengthen your mindfulness or meditation practice to experience more calm and clarity.
- Create supportive structures that help you stay balanced, protect your happiness and support your year-round growth.
- Apply the power of awareness to:
- Develop a supportive environment and healthy, intentional structures and routines in your daily life;
- Cultivate more meaningful conversations and connections in your relationships and community;
- Transform big areas of your life that may be draining energy (concerns about your future, money, time management, food/health, etc.).
- Integrate and weave mindfulness into all aspects of your daily life.
Integrating Mindfulness is based on Clear Sky’s Five Principles and helps you build a sustainable meditation practice that permeates your body, career, relationships, and all other areas of your life.
Learn more about our Five Principles here, or go deeper with a free PDF overview by clicking the link below.
“Mindfulness is like turning on a light in a dark room. The power of awareness lets us see what is there – in our bodies, emotions, mind, workplaces, homes and relationships. Seeing what is there gives us the freedom and the courage to make deeply impactful changes. I’ve found it helps craft our lives, environment and structures in a way that deeply supports connection and growth.”
Course Overview
Integrating Mindfulness teaches you how to apply mindfulness across all areas of your life, and to create an environment that supports you physically, mentally, and emotionally. The course includes meditations, exercises, and community check-ins.
Week 1: Creating a supportive space for your growth.
Week 2: Transforming habit and making friends with structure.
Week 3: Quieting the monkey mind and creating generative conversations.
Week 4: Cleaning up big areas of your life to free up energy.
Week 5: The power of mindfulness to create real and lasting change.
Week 6: Community and transforming our relationships with others.
“Deep transformational growth is really supported by having a container, a supportive structure around us. I feel like we’re so disembodied today in our technological culture that this is my little kindness to myself in saying ‘hello body, you’re part of my day.'”
Our Approach
This course uses three interwoven approaches to support you in: cultivating mindfulness, to craft a supportive container; and to powerfully integrate mindfulness into all aspects of our life and work.
By mindfulness, we mean the natural power of awareness we all have, and the approaches that help us cultivate this in daily life. Mindfulness helps to slow down racing thoughts, distractions and negative emotions. Becoming more present and aware is like turning on a light so we can see better. And when we really start seeing what is happening in our bodies, emotions, minds, relationships and environment, we have the freedom to make transformative change.
Flourishing in our distracted and difficult world relies on bringing awareness to the people and things that nourish us, letting go of what doesn’t, and creating a container to protect our happiness and life-energy. More than ever, crafting a supportive container for our mindfulness practice and year-round growth is an essential skill.
When we have “turned on the light” and crafted a supportive container for deepening mindfulness, integrating mindfulness means applying this transformative power of awareness to all aspects of our life and work. We allow awareness to light up and transform our environment; our habits and use of time; how we listen and speak; areas of life where we may be stuck such as money, health, food, or life vision; and how we relate to others and build community.
Clear Sky Retreat Center’s mission is to support people transform struggle and embrace vitality. We provide a supportive container for depth work and transformation, and aim to be generative across a quadruple bottom line: spiritual, financial, environmental and social. Rooted in a deep history of our Buddhist lineage, we are a conscious community and “living lab” for developing integrated modern approaches to awakening. Under the guidance of our founding teachers Qapel and Catherine Sensei of www.planetdharma.com, we weave into our course and daily living an integral spirituality approach, and work across four key pillars of meditation, wisdom/study, mindfulness-in-action, and integration of the shadow.
Our Teachers
Karen McAllister
As Clear Sky’s Chair of the Board and Director of Business Development, I’m passionate about teaching the much-ignored principles of nurturing factors – like structure, communication, and honouring your space – that create the conditions we need to wake up more in daily life. I see how I learned and embodied these principles in my different roles at Clear Sky as the center went from self-starter to second-stage growth. This is what I call “the hands-on way of doing an MBA with a spiritual bottom line!”
In my free time, I love travelling, speaking Portuguese, and reading history, architecture, and art books.
Duncan Cryle
Through 30+ years of personal practice and 15+ teaching meditation and mindfulness, alongside an active career working all over the world, I’ve learned a lot about integrating mindfulness into daily life. As a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004, I’m amazed at the power of a beautiful, natural, and dedicated space for supporting people to deepen their meditation and feel more connected.
Alongside my work at Clear Sky, I hold a director position at a large software company where I also run a volunteer global mindfulness program to 1000s of employees. I was formerly one of the pioneers of IBM’s mindfulness movement. I’m passionate about how mindfulness-based approaches can transform how we live and work together and provide better service in the world.
Course Cost: Dāna
We offer this course on the basis of dāna. If you’re not familiar with dāna, you may have come across related approaches such as “pay from the heart.”
Dāna is a Sanskrit term that translates as “generosity” in English. The practice of generosity is central to spiritual unfoldment, whatever path you follow. In our own Buddhist lineage, teachings have always been given on the basis of dāna, and we are committed to this practice and its development in the West.
Dāna is a radical and, we believe, viable economic alternative to capitalism. We all know there must be something better than capitalism or its hungry cousin, consumerism. We maintain that, together, we can offer a financial model that is based on life-affirming mutual support.
Please join us in co-creating this promising economic alternative.
To help you choose an amount that feels right for you, we recommend this heart-based exercise from Planet Dharma:
Checking in with your heart
- Take a few quiet breaths and center yourself. Spend a few moments to reflect on each of the below: the beauty and integrity of dāna practice; the value of receiving direct teachings from lineage holders in a recognized spiritual tradition; the reality of your financial situation.
- Spend another few moments contacting a sense of health, strength and abundance. You have a healthy mind, a body, senses, the good karma to have heard the teachings, and conditions to support your practice of Dharma. Celebrate this!
- Now check with your heart and mind what amount feels both consistent with your situation, and expressive of your aspiration.
It’s our joy to offer this course, and we trust you’ll match our time, energy, and passion by giving an amount of money that feels good and healthy to both you and us.
