The Quiet Year - by Evelyn Foreman

COURSE

The Quiet Year

With Evelyn Foreman

The Quiet Year: Beginning Without Reinvention — beginning with presence, pace, and grounded awareness — is a gentle audio course designed to support a calm and grounded start to the new year. The course includes seven lessons. The first lesson is a brief course orientation that introduces the course's themes and explains how the remaining lessons are designed to be experienced together. The six lessons that follow each explore a specific aspect of beginning without pressure, combining brief context-setting guidance with a simple, accessible guided practice. Rather than focusing on goals, outcomes, or self-improvement, this course offers a reflective space to slow down, listen more closely, and reconnect with a steadier internal pace. The lessons are intended to be experienced sequentially, allowing each one to build quietly on the previous experience. This course is well-suited for those who feel overstimulated by “new year” messaging, are navigating a period of transition, or are simply seeking a quieter and more grounded way to begin. Through this course, students can expect to: • Explore a calm, presence-based approach to beginning a new year • Develop greater awareness of their own pacing and internal rhythms • Practice noticing and softening habits of urgency and expectation • Experience simple guided practices that support steadiness and reflection • Learn ways to carry moments of quiet awareness into everyday life


Meet your Teacher

Evelyn Foreman is a meditation guide and integration-focused teacher whose work centers on presence, pacing, and lived awareness. She has spent many years studying and practicing mindfulness-based approaches that emphasize direct experience, embodied listening, and everyday integration. Her teaching style is quiet, grounded, and accessible, drawing from contemplative practice, reflective inquiry, and sustained personal practice rather than technique or doctrine. Evelyn is especially oriented toward supporting people in transitional phases of life, offering spaces that invite settling, listening, and thoughtful engagement with what is already present. This course reflects her experience holding calm, paced environments where awareness can deepen naturally and without pressure.

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7 Days

29 students

5.0 stars

13 min / day

Acceptance

English


Lesson 1

Course Introduction (Summary)

This introductory lesson provides an overview of The Quiet Year: Beginning Without Reinvention and how the course is designed to be experienced. It outlines the themes explored across the lessons and explains the structure of each session, which combines a short teaching with a guided experiential practice. Listeners are invited to understand the pacing and sequencing of the course before moving into the practices, allowing the remaining lessons to be approached with clarity, steadiness, and ease.

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Lesson 2

Entering A Quieter Beginning

This opening lesson invites a gentle arrival into the course and the year ahead. Rather than setting intentions or goals, the focus is on settling into the present moment and allowing the body to land. Through simple reflection and guided awareness, listeners are supported in beginning from where they already are.

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Lesson 3

Letting The Body Set The Pace

In this lesson, attention turns to the body’s natural rhythms. Listeners are invited to notice pace without trying to manage or change it, allowing awareness of how the body signals rest, movement, and pause. The practice supports listening inwardly and honoring a steadier, more responsive tempo.

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Lesson 4

Releasing The Urgency To Improve

This lesson explores the subtle pressure to fix, optimize, or move ahead. Through gentle observation, listeners are guided to notice how urgency shows up and what becomes possible when that pressure softens. The practice emphasizes allowing the moment to be incomplete, without needing resolution.

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Lesson 5

Listening Beneath The Noise Of Expectation

Here, the focus is on expectation — the often-unnoticed ideas about how things should be. This lesson supports awareness of how expectations shape experience and how attention can return to direct sensation beneath them. The practice invites openness and presence without effort or evaluation.

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Lesson 6

Allowing The Year To Unfold Slowly

This lesson offers a different way of relating to time. Rather than approaching the year as something to manage or rush through, listeners are invited to sense how time is experienced in the body. The guided practice supports allowing unfolding at a natural pace, without force.

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Lesson 7

Carrying Quiet Into Daily Life

The final lesson focuses on integration. Listeners are invited to notice how presence and quiet awareness can move with them into ordinary moments of daily life. The practice emphasizes continuity rather than completion, supporting a gentle return to awareness as life continues.

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5.0 (7)

Recent Reviews

KatieG

KatieG

January 15, 2026

a course that lives up to its name-as I could access the “quiet” during each session, and looked forward to these moments! The takeaway that with awareness, relaxing and softening, I can return to moments of quiet throughout my day is lovely and true. Thank you! 🙏🏼

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