Mindfulness &
Self Compassion Coaching
Learning About Mindfulness
Navigating our lives in the present moment while also being compassionate to ourselves is one of the most rewarding, yet one of the most difficult things we could possibly do. As a mindfulness and self-compassion researcher, and meditation practitioner, I use both evidence-based and lived experience approaches to provide guidance and tools around mindfulness and self-compassion.
After working with people on mindfulness for over 15 years, I understand that during certain chapters of our lives we are ready to deepen and grow our existing practices, while at other times our focus may be to seek out support in how to bolster our abilities to be kind and present with ourselves. Together, we will locate where you are in your practice, identify some tools that might feel helpful or areas needing a little extra support and journey together from there.
What is Mindfulness?
In recent years, mindfulness has become a buzzword that almost everyone has heard, but few people can actually pinpoint what it means. Most simply, mindfulness is the practice of being right here, right now, in the present moment, with a sense of kindness and curiosity.
Although Western secular science began studying mindfulness from ancient Buddhist traditions, mindfulness is a contemplative practice that can be found in nearly every culture and religion around the world. Modern versions of mindfulness have a variety of different emphasis. In business settings, professionals use mindfulness to increase cognitive precision and focus, workplace satisfaction and decrease experiences like workplace mistakes and manage workplace stress. In personal settings, many people use mindfulness as a tool to navigate more thoughtful relationships, creating more intentional and loving relationships to their own behaviors, as well as mitigating daily life stressors. Creatives often use mindfulness as a way to recognize the patterns of their own minds so that they can move past repetitive or uninspiring tendencies and connect more deeply to the spaces newly impassioned work might want to emerge.
Regardless of the original intention, a regular mindfulness practice is about slowly increasing awareness of our thoughts, behaviors, actions and environments to create more choice. Understanding the momentum of our own minds allows for us to more thoughtfully and intentionally engage with the world around us.
Guided By Real-Life Experience
With over 20 years of a personal mindfulness practice—including living on-site at a silent dharma retreat center and working with mindfulness with those aged 5 - 70—Dagny comes to the table with a robust toolbox to fit in practical places in your life.
Embodied Background
As a dancer, movement facilitator, and somatic teacher—Dagny emphasizes more than just a sitting meditation practice. Her approach pulls you from your mind back down into your physical body.
Financially Accessible
Here at The Art of Rest, we believe fostering tools and skills like mindfulness and self compassion should be accessible to as many people as possible. Our sliding scale fee and scholarships make this widely available.
Evidence-Based Tools
As a mindfulness researcher, Dagny has a unique ability to unpack cutting-edge research in a way that is approachable and honest about the scientific limitations of what we collectively know about modern day mindfulness and self-compassion practices.
Creative Components
As a unique approach to mindfulness and self-compassion work, Dagny is dedicated to creative and artistic practices to emphasize the mindfuless
Ongoing Support
Our goal at the Art of Rest is to help you build your own toolbox for success, and we also pride ourselves on a model that easily allows for people to check in specifically around certain times of year for a tune up to listen to "what is the kindest things I could do for my body right now?"
