Welcome to East Coast Mindfulness.
East Coast Mindfulness LLC (ECM) provides premier online teaching and training in mindfulness.
ECM started with a friendship between Rebecca Eldridge and Margaret Fletcher—leaders in the field of online mindfulness teaching and training. The combination of their companionship, skill, and deep personal practice fuels the work they love—breaking through barriers that prohibit access to great mindfulness teaching and training. They bring the classroom to you.
Through ECM, they continue the tradition of excellence in mindfulness teaching that originated at the Center for Mindfulness (CFM) at UMass Medical School 40 years ago, while also fulfilling the Mission of ECM: to elevate mindfulness as a force for clear seeing, honesty, liberation, health, and flourishing. All online. Your space. Your time zone. Your life.
Learn more about Rebecca, Margaret and East Coast Mindfulness here.
"Margaret and Rebecca, formerly of the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical, are expert online MBSR teachers and provide high level training for others to deliver the program with high integrity and depth.”
Looking for videos? Our Video page is home to our growing collection of selected videos from the weekly Worldwide Online Sit, and more—including the video of our first guest speaker, Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Ongoing Programs
Take an MBSR Course Online
For 8 weeks you will be part of a living container—a group of individuals devoted to exploring mindfulness as a means to living fully in the only moment there is: now. Highly experiential, the course requires you to come with a sense of curiosity.
This course requires a commitment, but the experience can forever alter the way you experience yourself and your life. Most people who participate fully in an MBSR course report decreases in physical and psychological symptoms, an increased ability to relax, reduction in pain levels, an enhanced ability to cope with chronic pain, greater energy and enthusiasm for life, improved self-esteem, and an ability to cope more effectively with stressful situations.
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Meeting Life's Challenges with Skill and Wisdom: An Introduction to Mindfulness
"When you dwell in stillness, the judging mind can come through like a foghorn...Imagine how it might feel to suspend all your judging and instead to let each moment be just as it is, without attempting to evaluate it as 'good' or 'bad.' This would be a true stillness, a true liberation. Meditation means cultivating a non-judging attitude toward what comes up in the mind, come what may.”
Free Online Introduction to Mindfulness
Whether you’re new to mindfulness or exploring further, please join us for an hour of free mindfulness.
During this live online opportunity, you will—
- Learn about mindfulness
- Experience short practices to try out in your everyday life
- Learn about practice opportunities within an active online worldwide community
Free Worldwide Online Sit
This offering is open to all who have completed an MBSR, MBCT or MSC course, or have learned about mindfulness from some other source.
The session is held every Thursday, 12:10 - 12:50PM US Eastern Time. Use the link below to register once for this free offering, after which you will be emailed a Zoom link unique to you—to use again and again. We’d love to have you every Thursday you’re able to be with us.
Note: the passcode to enter the weekly session is always love.
Graduate Offerings
East Coast Mindfulness is happy to offer ongoing opportunities for students to connect with a community of mindfulness practitioners and teachers.
Along with our free, weekly Worldwide Online Sit and our online retreats, we provide specialized programs for MBSR and MBCT graduates who wish to continue their learning and development in mindfulness.
Train to Teach MBSR
We also offer a 4-weekend training to Certified and/or highly experienced MBSR teachers who want to teach MBSR online.
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Train to Teach MBSR Online
“East Coast Mindfulness is offering an online course to train MBSR teachers to teach the MBSR curriculum online. I have every confidence that Rebecca Eldridge and Margaret Fletcher provide a valuable professional training which can amplify and deepen your skillset and personal practice as an MBSR teacher, as well as the technical support necessary to extend your reach through the internet.”
We also offer a 3-day, 27-hour Introduction to Teaching MBSR Live Online course, to help new MBSR teachers identify what is essential in each class of an MBSR course, and gain practical experience in expressing the essence of those classes through the online format.
Mindfulness Training for Your Organization
Read more about organizations we've served.
One-on-One Mindfulness Coaching
Questions? Contact us!
Special Programs
The Treasure in Your Heart: A Day of Practice with Saki Santorelli
With meditation, silence, stillness, poetry, structured and spontaneous moments of dialogue and inquiry as companions, Saki will explore what hinders and what opens us to embodying our “ruby-nature.”
Saki F. Santorelli, EdD, MA is an educator, meditation guide, writer, gardener, and pioneer in integrating meditation and mindfulness into medicine, health care, and the broader society. In 2017, he retired as professor of medicine, executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society and director of the internationally acclaimed Stress Reduction Clinic – the clinic of origin of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) - at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
For the Earth: A Micro-retreat with Margaret Fletcher
Our culture is in need of restorative rest and deep listening.
The climate emergency we face demands insight and wise action NOW.
Join Margaret Fletcher on Thursday, July 14 for an online evening retreat dedicated to being, right here on our home: Earth.
Margaret will guide practice for connecting with and caretaking the earth. Together, we will reflect on healing what needs healing, inside us and among us. We’ll complete our micro-retreat around this question: how can we ignite what is clearest and best in ourselves in service to our only home?
Net proceeds from this event will be given to The Climate Initiative, a nonpartisan, science-based organization based in Kennebunkport, Maine whose mission is to empower youth voices for climate action. To learn more about TCI and their nationwide programs, click here.
Wonders of the Meditative Mind: An Introduction to Post-Mindfulness Meditations with Andrew Holecek
Offering a healthy critique of mindfulness, and a survey of the many meditations that transcend (but include) it, Dr. Holocek will also examine a host of related topics: what is the role of the body on the meditative path, and does therapy have a place? Can meditation help with political upheaval, social unrest, and the ecological crises?
Andrew Holecek is an author and spiritual teacher who offers talks, online courses, and workshops in the United States and abroad. A long-time student of Buddhism, he has completed the traditional three-year Buddhist meditation retreat and offers seminars internationally on meditation, lucid dreaming, and the art of dying.
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