Community members are invited to join Healthy Acadia online via Zoom on Thursday, June 1, 2023, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., for “Practical, Everyday Tools for Stress Reduction,” with special guest Tom Speare. The free online event is the latest installment in Healthy Acadia’s Monthly Mindfulness series.

Stress can be managed successfully when you have the right tools in your toolbox. With simple and immediately effective practices you can reduce the level of stress in your life. You just need to know what these tools are and begin to use them regularly. In this interactive workshop, you will be introduced to multiple stress reduction practices that can become the foundation of a more balanced, healthy, and productive you. We will also examine some of the vast research that has been conducted so that you can see how deeply our bodies are impacted by stress. It is this research that has led to the formation of the tools we will be practicing in this session.

Pre-registration is required for this free event. The one-hour session will be offered virtually via Zoom. To register and receive the Zoom link, go to bit.ly/mindful-6123. 

Tom Speare is Co-founder and Director of Corporate and Educational Programs at the Tenth Gate Center For Yoga and Meditation in Bar Harbor. He is a certified Kundalini Yoga and Meditation Teacher at the E-RYT500 level and has been teaching yoga, stress management, mindfulness, and meditation since 2007. Tom also leads the Tools For Today and Tomorrow Program, launched in 2013, which provides stress reduction courses to schools, municipalities, and corporate workplaces across New England and beyond. Tom and his wife relocated to Bar Harbor in 2022 after spending many years visiting MDI.

For additional information about this and future mindfulness events in the series or other programs focused on building skills that promote mindful living, contact Ursula Hanson at ursula@healthyacadia.org.