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Hello,
These Sunday News emails give you meditation tips, links to audio, and… NEWS! Current studio news is that there’s a branding shift coming in the next few months.
The Mindful Boston practice studio has existed since 2009 as a place to learn to deepen mindful awareness, especially in alignment with the secular, evidence-based, MBSR format of study. In 2015, we started offering apprenticeships for people who want to study to become meditation teachers.
All of that continues! People who are members of Mindful Boston will continue to have access to both in-person and zoom classrooms. Members who decide to apprentice towards a teaching certificate will continue to have access to quality instruction through specialized programs. Mindful Boston continues to be a place of learning.
Yet, it has become clear that the majority of people either don’t want that kind of learning, or simply don’t have the capacity for it these days.
It is unfortunately true that most people who voice an interest in mindfulness are not (yet) in a place to invest deeply in enhanced learning. To even listen to a ten minute recorded audio can push the boundaries of what is possible for the general population of busy stressed-out folks during this overwhelming time in history.
So, I got creative.
As a mindfulness teacher, it has always been my job to meet my students where they are at.
Since I recognized that the most that my students can do is a short listen, I decided that it was my job to enhance access to recorded audio.
Therefore, I have now established a 24/7 RADIO STATION for mindfulness.
If you have been reading these Sunday newsletters as part of the free guest pass subscription, your free content is being re-branded as Mindful Beacon Radio Station content.
Continue as you have been to enjoy the free audio and the free Sunday newsletters. But instead of sending you links to mp3s, in the future I will be telling you the radio station schedules so that you can tune in to radio programs. In our marketing meetings, we’ve been using the phrase: “ancient technology, reinterpreted for a modern era.” Welcome back to the age of radio!
You will start to see the Mindful Beacon name and new “signal box” logo more regularly for our free content. The radio station call sign is MBZ1.
Currently, everything is in beta!
The schedule is not yet ready, the recording are not yet quite up to snuff, other teachers have not yet been added to the schedule…
But the radio station does exist. It’s here. And you can listen to the very rough draft version via the Zeno radio platform.
The Mindful Boston office in Cambridgeport will continue to be the studio location where the audio (and video) content is created.
If you want to have access to downloadable mp3s, if you want to have live meditation experiences with other meditators via zoom or in-person, if you want to be in the audience for future podcasts (or even apprentice to create podcasts of your own for broadcast!), it’s time to become a Mindful Boston studio member.
Mindful Boston, as an institute of learning, will continue to be associated with the tea cup logo. Current members, you next in-person meditation event is Sunday June 23rd 2pm at the office. We can talk more about your enhanced benefits then.
Thanks to everyone, both free guest pass subscribers and studio members, for your interest and commitment to mindfulness!
I’m very much looking forward to seeing how our community continues to evolve with these new free radio modalities.
Kind regards,
-Gena Bean
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