:: CLASS IS FULL:: 
Please email lanspach@loubar.org to be added to the wait list for possible future programs. 

This is an LBA Member-Only event. 

Presented by the LBA's newly formed Health & Wellness Committee.

Learn how to deal with situational stress from desk to courtroom to home, focusing on self-awareness and redirection. Paula Kommor, Chief Energizing Officer of Dynamic Wellness, will provide Koru Mindfulness in four consecutive 60-minute virtual sessions hosted on the LBA’s Zoom  platform.

Session dates are at noon on:

• April 6
• April 13
• April 20
• April 27

Class size is limited to 10 participants and ideally each particpant should attend all four sessions. 

What is KORU?

• Evidence-based curriculum designed for teaching mindfulness, meditation, and stress management
• A spiral shape based on an unfurling fern found in Maori art, where it symbolizes a new life, growth, strength, and peace.

Research–Backed Benefits:

• Grows compassion, self-awareness, and perspective. 
• Increases regulation of emotions.
• Reduces stress, worry and fear (the amygdala shrinks).
• Improves working memory capacity – memory part of brain grows.
• Enhances ability to pay attention.
• Improves executive decision making due to increase in grey matter in meditators (as seen on MRIs).
• Increases quality of life.
• Rivals antidepressants in easing symptoms of depression.
• Prevents drug and alcohol relapse.

KORU Key Factors:

• Taught in small diverse groups – no more than 12 participants.
• Requires commitment to attendance.
• Focused and brief.
• Develops self-calming skills.

Initial KORU Offering (four 60-minute classes include): 

• Short opening meditation
• Check-in
• Mind-body skill
• Mindfulness meditation practice

With questions, contact Lisa Anspach at LAnspach@loubar.org