COURSE

Loving The Crone: More Mindful Aging For Women

Aging is a curious process, full of potential. Sometimes, the changes we encounter can feel daunting, sometimes attractive. Through listening to this course, you will affirm the more positive aspects of maturing into older age and have space to create purpose in what you really want in your third age. This course is short, focused, soothing, and energising. While recognising the challenges of ageing, it is also full of positive affirmations for you to carry with you and to live a positive and wonderful life ahead, treasuring the value of each day, being at the very best that you can. The course is a mix of short talks, meditations, and affirmations.

Mindfulness Authenticity Health & Happiness Abundance Affirmations Visualization Mindfulness Meditation Acceptance Happiness Secular Secular Mindfulness

Meet your Teacher

Jan Russell

Faro District, Portugal

Jan specialises in integrating psychology and mindfulness to create powerful outcomes. She is particularly interested in supporting women to be accepting and empowered, and in supporting anyone to have the best mental and energetic health that they can. She is well-published in coaching and in counselling and have enjoyed a successful career in both. She has also published meditations on Insight Timer with her daughter and fellow Insight Timer teacher Keziah Gibbons, whom she shares a joint profile with.

10 Days

3.3k students

4.8 stars

14 min / day

Authenticity

English

Lesson 1

Facing Forward: The Cycle Of Infinity

In this session, you will settle into the concept of the course and hear an overview of the issues that face women as we move into our Third Age. The session progresses to a meditation, in which you will acknowledge and pay homage to the many sources of love that you have made available to you in your life; your connection to the cycle of nature, while valuing, celebrating, and drawing on the energy of the love to be found in the present, leaving the session with a sense of facing forward. Today’s meditation, the Cycle of Infinity, centres around the energetic and universal nature of loving inner renewal.

Lesson 2

Declutter For The Soul: Sorting Beliefs To Serve You Well

This is a dynamic session in which you will identify those aspects of your beliefs or behaviours that seem to hold you back, before letting them go and creating space for better beliefs. What would you like to pass on, what can you bin, and what would you like to keep with you, cleaned up, refashioned, and easily accessible? This session takes the form of an active mindfulness exercise.

Lesson 3

Wish Upon A Star: The Hopeful Future

Hope is the eternal shining star, one of the three key ingredients identified in the science of happiness. In this session, you will acknowledge and develop your hopes for the next chapter of your life, and understand the value of optimism as you move into and through the crone years. The session begins with a discussion around the values of hope and optimism during the ageing process and how cultural and personal beliefs can influence how we feel toward ageing, and how when we are more optimistic, we are likely to become more fulfilled. We will then move to the Star meditation. We use the Star as the symbol of hope, as although not always visible, the stars are always there and will inevitably shine on you again. This is a meditation for optimism, enjoying the opportunity to wish upon a star.

Lesson 4

The Lioness Of The Heart: Living With Courage

Fear and courage are highly instinctive qualities, which over our lifetime, we can be more or less in touch with. In this session you will explore the importance of being in touch with courage in everyaday small ways, remembering to listen to your gut and empower yourself through directing attention and energy to your advantage.You will reflect on different aspects of what it is to be courageous, and remind yourself of the animal nature of this quality. We use the symbol of the Lioness to connect to the power of female animal courage. Today’s practice is a series of powerful affirmations.

Lesson 5

Our Bodies, Ourselves

In this session you will acknowledge changes in your body over time, and pay attention to how physiology and mood relate. We will explore how menopause has specific impacts, and the importance of making changes which are within our gift when nature's bodily changes impact, aligning mind and body to work together. You will dig a little deeper into accepting the true wonder of who you are, including and beyond your physical self. This session is largely a reflective session, closing with some short affirmations to bring together body and soul.

Lesson 6

The Purple Hat Of Love & Power

Daring to be exactly who you are can feel more or less easy at different times of our lives. In this session, you will enjoy a powerful meditation to be in touch with your most congruent and empowered self, creating an anchor to keep this state available to you. Today’s session is all meditation - the Purple Hat of Love and Power.

Lesson 7

Living With Purpose

To know our purpose is to connect with one of the key evidenced ingredients of true happiness. As we live longer, purpose can sometimes elude us, as capacities change, and the ground can feel as if it is shifting. Purpose is a big part of how we grow older, and how we love ourselves during that process. Purpose is an important factor in mindful ageing. This conversational talk is the first of two sessions on purpose and will encourage you to reflect and consider what it means to you as we explore different aspects of purpose. This will set the foundation firmly for the full meditation,which follows in Session 8.

Lesson 8

The Meaningful Life

This session is a full-length meditation which will take you into a relaxed and deep contemplation on the purpose of your life. You will follow a guided journey which will support you to link purpose to your capacity for self-love as you age mindfully on the journey of life.

Lesson 9

Drawing Your Personal Boundaries

Setting personal boundaries is an important issue in all stages of womanhood. As Crones, or would be crones, we have a chance to review and reset our boundaries in a way which not only suits us, but can also influence the younger women and environment around us. Boundaries are a cultural issue, and taking positive steps to be clear with ourselves and others will bring impact to the spaces which we occupy. Through an active meditation of embodiment, you will associate your physical extremities with resources and vision to support you in developing boundaries, in the light of prior knowledge, experience, and resources.

Lesson 10

Living Your Truth

We end the course with a summary and active meditation to balance your equilibrium and set up to move forward truthfully, confidently, and harmoniously, with joy in your future and love in your heart. In this final session, you will integrate learnings and identify how you can act on them in every day. Through an inspirational meditation, we focus on connecting to joy and exploring how to ensure more joy in each day. With the means to create the essentials of each day, you can influence your whole life, and recognise the importance of valuing every second, every minute, hour, and day, with confidence in your inner truth. With gratitude for engaging in this course.

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Recent Reviews

Katherine

January 27, 2026

Love Jan's spirit and voice and way of connecting with us. This was such an encouraging course, helping me remember who I am and inspired new perspectives on myself and aging. Thank you!

Maria

December 19, 2025

Thank you

Eileen

November 19, 2025

This course gives women a real opportunity to reflect on aging in a very positive way. Many good working sessions and meditations. It gives one the possibility to rethink the way forward as we age. Highly recommend.

Jules

January 19, 2025

Very informative. Feel better about myself and aging already. Many useful tools to help with more mindful aging and accepting where I am. The best days are not behind me

January 6, 2025

All of Jan’s Crone courses are really worth doing! 🙏🏼

JENNIFER

December 13, 2024

I love this course. It resonates.🙏✨

Millie

November 30, 2024

A wonderful assembly if reminders to embrace ageing with grace and gratitude

Dena

August 26, 2024

Loved this so much! Thank you Dr Jan Russell!

Pam

October 1, 2023

What a wonderful class!!! So loving and helpful

Carol

August 25, 2023

A nurturing course on making the most of our older years. I enjoyed the affirmations, meditations, encouragement, and empowering ideas shared by Dr Jan Russell. Thank you! 💜

Jane

July 19, 2023

Thank you.

Sue

July 9, 2023

Amazing program!

Heidi

June 26, 2023

Because Jan said it was so. Great course. Would love another one focusing on the body changes and or all the "leaving" and "losing" that takes place as we grow old.

Carol

June 25, 2023

I really felt at home in this course, like it was made to order for me. The focus throughout is what brings you joy, what is right for you? But not at the expense of others in our lives -more like if we are filled with joy, we will be able to share it

Vicki

June 11, 2023

Lovely course. Thank you so much.

Wendy

May 25, 2023

Loved it...thank you so much!

Shawn

May 15, 2023

Excellent course, I’m 64 and the end of my 23 years of marriage has made me evaluate my whole life all over again. Loving myself will take some practice ☺️ Thank you 🙏🏼

April 28, 2023

Thank you

Cathy

April 20, 2023

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