“Thoughts are real, but they are not necessarily true.”

In this course, you will learn over the course of 8 weeks how our thoughts, bodily sensations and emotions influence our stress level, our happiness - our whole being.
By understanding the connections and with continuous mindfulness training, we can learn to take back control of our lives.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an approach that incorporates mindfulness to assist people struggling with life’s difficulties, demands, stresses and physical or mental illnesses.

Great for beginner and advanced meditators alike, this course is designed to help you:
- Respond rather than react to stress
- Change habitual reactivity patterns
- Cultivate self-awareness
- Learn the most established secular mindfulness program

Developed by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn in the late 1970s in the UMass medical school to help patients with chronic pain, with many elements of Buddhist traditions, the purely secular program and other mindfulness-based interventions like MBCT, have now been adopted into schools, prisons, hospitals, veterans’ centres, and other environments. These programs have been implemented in many other fields, such as; healthy ageing, pain management, depression relapse prevention, children with special needs, drug addiction and intervention during the perinatal period.

The MBSR course is an eight-week workshop taught by a certified trainer.
The first 1 hours session is for orientation and to get to know each other.
It is then followed by 8 sessions of one and a half hour.
You’ll also receive handouts your teacher is available via email throughout the course.

If you are in Hamburg I am offering “Walk with me” Walking Meditation Sessions in the Niendorfer Gehege.

What can you expect from our walking meditation:

– Personalized sessions that directly correspond with your needs
– Mindfulness training that teaches being present in the here and now through the benefits of nature and movement
– A holistic approach combining research results and current knowledge with lived experience
– Immediate benefits as you are taking time for yourself
– Longterm benefits ranging from a better understanding of your thoughts and emotions and therefore the ability to respond to life’s changes and challenges more skillfully

How is the walking meditation and mindfulness training usually structured:

– The topics we discuss and experience are based on the 8-week MBSR training.
– We meet in the Niendorfer Gehege and walk together for about an hour.
– There will be an introduction to the topic, open conversation, silence and guided meditation
– Corona safety measures: As we are outside we can easily keep a safe distance

Which are the topics of the mindfulness training?
– What is mindfulness?
– Perception and creative responding
– Mindfulness of the breath and the body in movement
– Learning about the patterns of stress reactivity
– Working with stress
– Stressful communications
– Lifestyle Choices
– A mindful life

My name is Toniann Astuto, I’m a holistic health coach and have been actively involved in my own holistic health for over a decade.

My journey began at 8 years old when I was diagnosed with severe scoliosis, a hereditary disease that caused my spine to grow curved. After wearing a back brace for 4 years, I had a new type of surgery to correct my curvatures. I have a titanium rod that runs the full length of my spine to which all my discs are fused but the top and bottom two. At the time, this surgery was considered the best course of action. But being relatively new, there was no data on long-term effects.

Because of the surgery, over the following decades, my unfused discs started to degenerate along with the joints around them. After years of doing all the work that my whole back would have been doing, they began to wear out. I started suffering from chronic pain sometimes so severe that I couldn’t even walk a few feet.

At the age of 35, I had to quit my job and accept that I was now disabled. The doctors who knew how to fix my scoliosis now had no idea how to cure my pain. I went from specialist to specialist and was prescribed a variety of pain medications. At one point I was even using Fentanyl patches which took the pain away but left me non-functional.

I finally decided that this was no way to live and started to do my own research to find alternatives. I tried just about everything that you could have heard of until I finally found the right solution for me. I now rely on all natural solutions to manage my pain and have not taken any prescription pain meds in over a decade!

I use a blend of essential oils, natural supplements, vitamins, herbs, nutrition, and spiritual modalities like meditation, Reiki and others. I’ve had a long journey, but I feel better now than I have in ages! I’ve transformed my life, and I now want to help others find the natural relief they desperately

I offer free discovery calls!

If you want personalized sequencing, have specific needs or want one-on-one instruction, please contact me to schedule private lessons. Classes are offered over Zoom.

Service Description
I will help you to make changes in your life and to achieve your goals in the most effective and efficient way possible.

On top of focusing on the specific elements of your goals, we will also look into the root cause of what has been holding you back from achieving the success you deserve in your professional and also in your personal life.

I will guide you through the process of introducing new habits, thoughts and beliefs that support your goals , so you can expect to see dramatic life changes through the work we will do together.

DURATION

The Life Coaching runs online for 12 weeks, 1 hour duration per week.
Get in touch now to secure your place.

BENEFITS

• You will be able to turn things around to a thriving success-minded outlook, leading to a successful and flourishing growth in a sustainable manner.
• Create a successful environment where you can grow and achieve outstanding positive mind-set results because of your new found motivation
• Learn how to create successful strategies to achieve your goals, ambitions and aspirations.

This package has been grouped together if you identify with one or more of these patterns in your life.

We all have faced abandonment or rejection at some point of time in our unique ways
It’s not how small or big the abandonment is but to understand why would we still attract these patterns ?

What can lead to being lonely or disconnected ?

Why some relationships we flourish where as some we get ghosted ?

Why communication is so important and yet we cannot at times express authentically?

Over the next 6 weeks you will be given a briefing wherein we understand your expectations on each line item, we set a unique plan accordingly for you which would involve affirmations, minimal lifestyle changes and activities for you to do during the week.

We would meet you for a live on one session for duration of 45 min on topic of the week