Mindfulness and Wellbeing

02/17/2026

02/08/2026

Add your loving kindness energy to the global current to heal our current circumstances.

📌 Join with Us - Global Loving-Kindness Meditation - Feb 11, 2026

We warmly invite everyone from across the nation and the world to join us for a special loving-kindness meditation session with the venerable monks and Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara.

📅 Wednesday, February 11, 2026 (Our Day 109)
⏰ 4:30–7:30 PM EST
📍 George Washington University Smith Center
🔴 Online Livestream

This meditation session will be livestreamed on our page and website so everyone can join us at the same time, no matter where you are in the world.

With the collective loving-kindness meditation from everyone in the whole world, it will make a significant effect on our world. When thousands of hearts meditate together in the same moment, our loving-kindness ripples outward, touching hearts, healing wounds, and planting seeds of peace everywhere.

Whether you join us in person or online from your home—your presence matters. Your meditation matters. Your loving-kindness matters.

Please mark your calendars and invite your friends, family, and community to join. Together, we will join in meditation and send loving-kindness to all beings everywhere.

Livestream available on:
Facebook: Walk for Peace
Website: in the comment section of this post and always pinned at top of our page.

May you and all beings be well, happy and at peace. 🙏✨

02/07/2026

This is going to be a “Goodbye Winter” retreat. We hope to be able to be in the woods without any possibility of a frostbite, peacefully observing together, allowing the forest to speak into our hearts.
Visit www.owlpines.com to reserve your spot.

02/06/2026

❄️❄️ With the temperature and wind chill being a bit too chilly to spend a lot of time outside safely tomorrow for the retreat, we have rescheduled to a day where everyone who already signed up can still attend! ❄️❄️

If you would like to join us, the new day is Sunday, March 8th! You can sign up at www.owlpines.com/events-booking Hope to see you there 🙂

Along with Joanna Podlewska-Ely at Mindfulness and Wellbeing, we have created a day that has sessions both indoors and out.

When we are in the forest, there are stops with fire bowls along the way to help keep you warm. If you have any questions, feel free to message me and I will answer them quickly for you!

02/03/2026

Walk for Peace, good news in tumultuous times.

02/02/2026

This is a 6 week progressing series that starts already on Wednesday in Port Huron. Each session builds on the previous so it’s importat to attend each week in person or on zoom.
Each session explains different mindfulness objects of attention (body sensations, breath, walking, kindness, compassion, goodness, openness) and then the participants can practice each with a recorded meditation that I send to them.
It is designed to jumpstart and inspire a daily meditation practice.

It occurs to me that the ability to calm our nervous system is becoming a survival skill in these times of mounting challenges. Being able to do it ourselves affects and helps others around us.

Previous participants can drop in for a fee of $15.

02/02/2026

This is a 6 week progressing series that starts already on Tuesday in Lexington. Each session builds on the previous so it’s importat to attend each week in person or on zoom.
Each session explains different mindfulness objects of attention (body sensations, breath, walking, kindness, compassion, goodness, openness) and then the participants can practice each with a recorded meditation that I send to them.
It is designed to jumpstart and inspire a daily meditation practice.

It occurs to me that the ability to calm our nervous system is becoming a survival skill in these times of mounting challenges. Being able to do it ourselves affects and helps others around us.

Previous participants can drop in for a fee of $15.

01/23/2026

This class is starting soon in Port Huron!
Now is a good time to learn a new skill and join a group of like-minded friends to help each other in solidifying a beneficial new habit that strengthens your brain and improves your experience of life.

Contact me at jpodlewskaely@yahoo.com or messenger to sign up.
Mindfulness and Wellbeing

01/23/2026

This class is starting soon at Lexington Physical Therapy!

Join a local group of new friends to learn this skill which strengthens your brain and improves your experience of life.
It’s in person, 6 week course that introduces various kinds of mindfulness meditation with recordings to practice with daily to develop this life-changing habit.

Sign up by emailing jpodlewskaely@yahoo.com or through messenger. The phone number is not working well right now. Feel free to contact me with any questions.
Mindfulness and Wellbeing