A Place of Healing & Mutual Respect
Welcome to East Coast Mindfulness
The mission of East Coast Mindfulness (ECM) is simple: to provide excellent online mindfulness programs for living authentic, healthy, happy lives.
Founded in 2019 by two former UMass Medical School Center for Mindfulness (CFM) teacher trainers, Rebecca Eldridge & Margaret Fletcher, ECM continues the 40+ year tradition of the UMass CFM.
Always online. Your space. Your time zone. Your life.
"East Coast Mindfulness provides expert online MBSR teaching and high level training for others to teach the MBSR course online with high integrity and depth.”
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In addition to offering online mindfulness programs through ECM, our teachers have provided mindfulness programs to organizations small and large, including corporations, medical schools and health systems, non-profits, and more.
Ongoing Programs
Take an MBSR Course Online
Participate in the live online MBSR course from wherever you are. 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.
Photo credit: Tony Maciag
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.
Photo credit: Tony Maciag
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.”
This three-session online course is a gentle introduction to mindfulness for accessing the deep wisdom, well-being, and wholeness that reside within each of us.
Next session begins on July 11.
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
Next session is on May 3.
Free Worldwide Online Sit
Join our free weekly 30-minute meditation and instruction session, from anywhere in the world.
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, 12:15 - 12:45PM US Eastern Time. Once you register for this free offering, you will be emailed a Zoom link to use again and again. We’d love to have you participate every Thursday you’re able to be with us.
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, 12:15 - 12:45PM US Eastern Time. Once you register for this free offering, you will be emailed a Zoom link to use again and again. We’d love to have you participate every Thursday you’re able to be with us.
Graduate Offerings
As MBSR students come to the end of the 8-week MBSR course, the most frequently asked question is “How can I keep my practice alive and growing?”
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.
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
East Coast Mindfulness offers a 3-phase professional Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher training pathway that is completed entirely online, preparing you to teach MBSR in person. All teacher trainings are conducted online live, as you interact with an experienced MBSR trainer.
Photo credit: Tony Maciag
Photo credit: Tony Maciag
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 this valuable professional training 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.”
Train to Teach MBSR Live Online is a course designed for fully trained, experienced MBSR teachers who want to bring the MBSR course online in order to skillfully meet diverse audiences who could benefit from the online format. Conducted entirely online, this intensive training takes place over 4 sessions, with required participation in an online “Retreat Class” between sessions 2 and 3. Teachers who successfully complete this program will be designated as Certified MBSR Live Online Teachers.
We also offer a 3-day 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.
We also offer a 3-day 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
East Coast Mindfulness has provided training in mindfulness to organizations small and large. Contact us to explore possibilities to meet the needs of your organization, and to receive a scope of work and cost structure.
Read more about organizations we've served.
Read more about organizations we've served.
Online One-to-One Mindfulness Coaching
Want to restore, deepen, or simply learn more about your mindfulness practice? Schedule a 30-minute individual online coaching session, conducted via Zoom.
Contact us if you have questions!
Special Programs
Kindliness and Beauty:Awakening the Heart in Service to All
Sunday, January 21, 2024 with Saki Santorelli
We are here to be responsible and to serve. Here to give our all, leave the Earth a little kindlier, a little more beautiful, then depart.
This ethos runs counter to the dominant credo we are awash in and suffering from grievously. While there is much good in the world, no amount of politics or policy by itself will alter our current ills. We need an additive—the elixir called spiritual practice. Consciousness and conscience entwined, awareness and virtuous action interwoven, is the spiritual practice of our time.
Join Saki Santorelli on Sunday, January 21, 2024, and be part of creating a circle of mutual support and companionship, gathering for a day of practice as a means of awakening the heart and discovering the imperishable beauty of the treasure we carry within. Then we’ll explore turning this treasure into a commitment to serve and be of real use in the world each in our own way.
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.
Photo credit: © Saki Santorelli
This ethos runs counter to the dominant credo we are awash in and suffering from grievously. While there is much good in the world, no amount of politics or policy by itself will alter our current ills. We need an additive—the elixir called spiritual practice. Consciousness and conscience entwined, awareness and virtuous action interwoven, is the spiritual practice of our time.
Join Saki Santorelli on Sunday, January 21, 2024, and be part of creating a circle of mutual support and companionship, gathering for a day of practice as a means of awakening the heart and discovering the imperishable beauty of the treasure we carry within. Then we’ll explore turning this treasure into a commitment to serve and be of real use in the world each in our own way.
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.
Photo credit: © Saki Santorelli
The Virtues & Challenges of Lying Down Meditation
With Jon Kabat-Zinn and Rebecca Eldridge
Classically speaking, there are four formal meditation postures: sitting, standing, walking, and lying down. Yet is seems that sitting gets by far the most attention, even though all four postures can be thought of as a first approximation as different doors into the very same room.
In this workshop, we will focus on the unique virtues of lying down meditations and how such practices can be seamlessly integrated into our daily lives.
Join Jon Kabat-Zinn and Rebecca Eldridge as they discuss the virtues, challenges, and opportunities of lying down meditation. Jon will also guide a brief period of lying down practice, and engage in dialogue with the participants about their experiences. This is an excellent opportunity to explore inwardly and outwardly what lying down meditation practices might hold for you.
Missed the live sessions? The recordings are now available on Jon Kabat-Zinn's website!
Photo credit: © Joshua Simpson
In this workshop, we will focus on the unique virtues of lying down meditations and how such practices can be seamlessly integrated into our daily lives.
Join Jon Kabat-Zinn and Rebecca Eldridge as they discuss the virtues, challenges, and opportunities of lying down meditation. Jon will also guide a brief period of lying down practice, and engage in dialogue with the participants about their experiences. This is an excellent opportunity to explore inwardly and outwardly what lying down meditation practices might hold for you.
Missed the live sessions? The recordings are now available on Jon Kabat-Zinn's website!
Photo credit: © Joshua Simpson
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