About this web site
Welcome, to Mindfulness Materials.
Mindfulness is the ancient practice of developing self-awareness. Modern science has also found that with more self-knowledge we have more choices and less self-stress.ment more awareness and less stress.
Over time we plan on placing helpful mindfulness articles.
Health & Happiness,
Ross
About the terms used here
Words are often symbols of experience (more …
About Heidi and Ross
Heidi and I are a daughter and father team, with several other friends and teachers who would lie to offer free mindfulness materials. We all share a common interest community (more …
THE PEOPLE
About Ross Clark, Ross has been interested and practicing meditation for 33 years and has been a meditation instructor for the past 8 years. Ross and his daughter Heidi, provide Stress Management workshops in Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Ross and his wife live in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, Ontario, Canada. They have two adult children. Ross who now works at the University of Guelph, in 1995 on the advice of his doctor resigned from a career which he had enjoyed for the over 25 years. This came as a result of struggling with many lengthy family illnesses, increased work loads and a physical injury.
Sensing that there were better ways to manage these stressors, he began doing yoga and practicing meditation. After attending a weekend insight meditation retreat and experiencing his energy being restored for the next six weeks, he knew that insightful meditation was helpful in managing stress. Later,he traveled to a Buddhist retreat centre in Sri Lanka.
After practicing Buddhist meditation there for sometime, he was trained by a Buddhist nun to teach meditation to others. He then returned to Canada and has freely offered support those who are interested in developing meditation skills. He has found stress information, yoga, meditation and community have been most helpful for him and would like to offer this to others who may be interested.
He continues to do three to five retreats a year, ranging in length from a weekend to one month at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Mass. U.S.A. (view retreat history) He has also examined the scientific approach to understanding stress on the body, heart and mind. Finding that western science and eastern meditations compliment each other. Tara Brach, Ph.D., who is a clinical psychologist, meditation teacher and author of Radical Acceptance, has offered to sponsor Ross for the 3 year Community Dharma Leaders (CDL) Training at Spirit Rock, California.
He has completed the Mindfulness Stress Based Reduction (M.B.S.R.) instructors program, this summer at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. The M.B.S.R. training was founded in 1979 at the U of Mass Medical Center by Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living, Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness. Ross has also been trained at the University of Toronto in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (M.B.C.T.).
He teaches at Universities, Colleges, health care centres in addition to the My Mindfulness community and several other settings.
