COURSE

Cultivating Inner Strength And Confidence

This course will empower you to cultivate inner strength and confidence using meditation, breathwork, and visualization techniques. Each day contains a mantra that connects with the breath and a key question that, once answered, will unlock a remembrance of your inner strength and natural ability to be confident in any scenario.

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Meet your Teacher

Jen Knox

Columbus, Ohio, USA

The founder and co-owner of Unleash Creatives, a holistic arts organization, Jen Knox is an educator and storyteller who teaches writing, leadership, and meditation. She is the author of Chaos Magic (Kallisto Gaia Press), We Arrive Uninvited (Steel Toe Books Award Winner), and The Glass City (Press Americana Prize for Prose). She has also co-written two books on creativity, Living Art and Create & Curate: 500 Ideas for Artists and Writers. After earning her BA from Otterbein and MFA from Bennington in Creative Nonfiction, Jen went on to work in the nonprofit world where she directed a writers-in-communities program that supported at-risk populations to find and share their voice and use writing as a tool to explore difficult subjects on the page. While teaching creative writing to adults and children for over a decade and leveraging her community experience to teach leadership and personal empowerment at Ohio State University, Jen earned her 200-hour Teaching Certification through Uplifted™ Yoga YTT. She began studying meditation techniques with various instructors around the world. She began to combine her passion for creative expression and leadership with mindfulness practices.

3 Days

163 students

4.9 stars

8 min / day

Happiness

English

Lesson 1

The Power Of Inner Stillness

We will cultivate inner stillness so that we can be equipped to better navigate the change we want to see internally and get a little closer to the core sense of self that knows how capable and strong we are. "Within you, there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself." -Hermann Hesse

Lesson 2

Releasing Fear And Self Doubt

Today, we will allow negative thoughts to surface and release them with a nature-based visualization. Like the last session, we will repeat a mantra with breath to take the next step toward remembering our enduring strength and reconnecting with our confidence. “A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking because her trust is not in the branch, but in her wings.” — Charlie Wardle

Lesson 3

Returning To True, Authentic Confidence

“You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?” — Rumi What does your most confident self look like? Pose this question to yourself every day for a week after returning to this session in which we will return to our unshakable strength. Our confidence does not need to be limited to time. This is our reminder that what we do and how

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