What's New

If you were up early enough and with time on April 1st this year, you would have heard the dulcet tones of our teacher, Edward Croger, guiding us for our Morning Practice. Each month on the 1st morning, at 7am, the MPA community gather for a shared practice to refresh and reset at the beginning of the month. What we will try to do is record these as audio, and pop them in this blog, as well as on our socials, so you can practice ‘with’ us on all the other days of the month as well.

https://soundcloud.com/user-899524320/morning-meditiation

If this is useful for you, please let us know and we can find ways to bring more of our teachers guided practices to you!

Enjoy your morning (or whatever time of day you are reading this and using the recording!)

Tracy for the MPA team

We’re trying something new! 45 min Mindfulness Drop In sessions at the Integration Hub in Hobart, and the Medicare Mental Health Centres in Launceston and Devonport. We are hoping that these sessions with our teachers will be a way for folk to ‘check out’ mindfulness, enjoy some relaxation in their week, and for the old hands, be a chance to say hi to our teachers and have an opportunity to practice together again. All welcome, no experience needed, bring yourself and a friend as well and help make this experiment a success for us all! If you want to know more about what these sessions can bring, click Drop In info

Being Refreshed at Oura Oura in the Liffey Valley Saturday 21^st March meant having time and space to meander (pun intended) as we walked mindfully, giving ourselves permission to pause and inquire further when we noticed our attention being focused on a particular element.

Walking in this way, we also explored touch through the bare soles of our feet (if we chose this) and our fingers, noticing the textures and the challenges of such intimate contact with the earth.

We wandered over the lawn shared by echindas, and up the start of the mountain track where the terrain became more challenging, and we noticed what this invited for us! Only one of us was bitten by an ant…

Our time for reflection explored just that: noticing what we noticed, and our response.

Later, at our sit spots, we noticed the living and non living beings that became present to us, noticing us in their home space. Metaphors emerged as we sat with our senses open, which become guides for us in our lives beyond the calm space Oura Oura provides.

Its not rocket science, this being mindful in nature. Our senses naturally open, and when we look up to see the wide horizon and expanse of the visual field, we naturally experience open awareness. Try it next time your in the wilderness, or maybe just standing outside your back door!

Bush Heritage Australia welcomed us, and continue to host visitors freely all year round. So if you haven’t been there yet, make sure this special place is on your bucket list.

We’re excited to announce free weekly mindfulness drop in sessions in Devonport and Hobart. These free sessions will provide mental fitness tune ups and a gentle workout for your mind. Just come as you are, and give it a go, no registration necessary.

Over 2000 Tasmanians have completed a Mindfulness Course with us, and we want to let you in on the secret, just 45mins per week. Learn mini practices that allow your Mind, Body and Thoughts to stay fit for life, able to meet challenges with confidence, and enjoy your life’s precious moments. Come along, learn a little, experience and practice Mindfulness, and reflect on what that was like for you, and what Mindfulness could make possible if you choose to keep it going in your life each day.

Mindfulness is an evidence-based set of skills to meet challenges more calmly, and get more joy out of life.Practices will be trauma-informed and inclusive of all particular life journeys such as gender diversity, cultural diversity, neurodiversity and age related experiences.

Details for the drop in sessions are below. Please note there is no registration required.

Devonport
Wednesdays 5-5.45pm with Christine
Starting April 22nd 2026
Medicare Mental Health Centre
11-17 Stewart St, Devonport
Download the Devonport Drop In flyer

Hobart
Wednesdays 1-1.45pm with Josef
Starting April 1st 2026 for 5 weeks
Peacock Centre, 10 Elphinstone Rd, North Hobart
Download the Hobart Drop In flyer

Launceston
Thursdays 4-4.45pm with Sharon
Starting April 23rd 2026
Medicare Mental Health Centre, 62/64 Canning St, Launceston
Download the Launceston Drop In flyer

Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or if you’d like to join our email list.

At 7am on the 1st of March, Co-Founding Director of MPA, Miranda Stephens, led our 20 min shared practice on zoom with an extended version of PROP (you can find the shorter version on our app https://mindfulnessaus.com.au/mindfulness-app/)

Pause: simply stop where you are

Relax: sigh out, letting all the tension drain out of your muscles

Open: take in what’s happening through all of your senses – what do you see, what do you ear, what do you touch, what do you taste, what do you smell, what is around you, what is alive within you…

Proceed: take the next step into your day, aware of the choice you make 

Have a listen HERE

These shared practices are ways that our community of mindfulness graduates get to connect, feel supported in practice, and tune in with ourselves and what we might need from practice at the start of each month. If you haven’t been yet, pop it in the calendar now with this link for the zoom room https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87089957518

See you on April Fools Day at 7am (no joke :))