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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Take an MBCT-L Course Online
Based on principles and practices of MBSR, the aim of this course is to promote awareness of your mind and body through the cultivation of mindful awareness, and to develop new skills to cope better with difficulties, and also savor life and develop a sense of flourishing.
Taught by Kornélia Nyitray, MD, the online MBCT-L course provides all the instruction and materials you need to practice mindfulness weekly within a group, and daily on your own.
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 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
Winter-Spring 2021 ONLINEMindfulness for Everyone: Focus on Practice
To support each of us and all of us in a life of wakeful presence, we offer this series of practice opportunities. We’d love to have you join us for any and all that fit your life.
- Retreat for a Day, Retreat for Life, with Margaret FletcherSaturday, January 9
- Kindness Retreat, with Rebecca Eldridge and Carol BowmanJanuary 22-24
- The Biobehavioral Clinical Science of Mindfulness: Transformations of Brain, Body and Behavior, with Dr. Eric GarlandSunday, January 31
- Introduction to Mindfulness, with Margaret Fletcher3 Wednesday evenings, February 17-March 3
- Perception and Body Awareness, with Caryn McHoseThursday, February 18
- FREE Online Retreat Class, with Rebecca Eldridge, Margaret Fletcher and other East Coast Mindfulness instructorsSunday, March 7 and Saturday, May 22
- Dedication Retreat: Five Days in Shared Silence ONLINE, with Rebecca Eldridge and Margaret FletcherMarch 24-28
- The Way of Harmony: Aikido for Communication, with Judy RingerSaturday, April 10
- FREE Worldwide Online Sit, with Rebecca Eldridge, Margaret Fletcher and guest speakersEvery Thursday, 12:10-12:50PM US ET
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