Different Paths to Effortless Living:
Our Effortless Living Community
Our Effortless Sleep Course
Our Effortless Mindfulness Course
and
Our Effortless Mini-Courses
The Effortless Living Community
Have you been meaning to meditate regularly but haven’t gotten around to it?
Do you already have a meditation practice but aren’t finding it all that inspiring or helpful?
Would you like to learn how your practice can help you with other things that are important to you – like eating better, sleeping better, working or learning with greater ease or effectiveness, having more harmonious and satisfying relationships . . .
What if you could be part of a warm supportive community whose purpose is to help you establish a practice if you don’t have one, make any practice you do have more enjoyable and more effective, and help you use your practice to improve virtually ANY area of your life you choose?
Ok, we can already hear what you might be thinking: “That sounds great but my life is so crazy and I’m already so overwhelmed, I just don’t have time for adding one more thing no matter how good it sounds.
Taking this into consideration, we’ve chosen to focus on developing the practice of pausing one or more times a day, for as little as 30 seconds at a time, and using those pauses for practice.
Over time, engaging in these brief pauses gives you an effortless way to learn and to incorporate a wide variety of meditative and mindfulness skills into your everyday life which can be as or more powerful than a formal seated meditation.
The biggest challenge in pausing briefly throughout the day is remembering to do it - and getting ourselves to resist the compulsion to keep doing whatever we’re doing. One of the great benefits of being in a community is that we can support each other in remembering to pause. We’ll even have periodic livestream guided pauses where we can all pause together.
Fast Forward to One Year from Now
Imagine what it would be like if after one year in the Effortless Living Community you would be able to:
Calmly enjoy choosing healthy foods to eat, exercising regularly, sleeping better
Experience a significant reduction in any kind of physical pain you might be experiencing
Feel less anxiety, anger, and depression - and be able to overcome them more quickly when they arise
Experience greater mental clarity and focus
Weaken or overcome addictions of various kinds
Have a richer, more harmonious relationship with your parents, your children, your partner, friends, coworkers, classmates and others
Still doubtful? You can start here:
Go to the top right of this page and subscribe to our newsletter to hear about what’s happening in the community.
or
Click the SIGN UP button below to subscribe to the community
for one month, start learning the practices, enjoy my support
and the support of others for making the changes
you want to make in your life . . .
and see what happens.
The cost of subscribing to the community is $15 for month and $96 if you sign up for a year.
Our Effortless Sleep Course:
From Restless Nights to Effortless Sleep
Would you like to be able to fall asleep and get back to sleep effortlessly, without having to
rely on drugs or supplements?Would you like to wake up in the morning feeling energized and refreshed and have plenty of
energy throughout the day?Would you like to learn a method which does all of the above and also trains your nervous system to be able to shift into a calm, relaxed state of mind and body any time of day?
If you answered yes to the above questions, you’ll definitely want to check out our online effortless sleep course, “From Restless Nights to Effortless Sleep.” In the course, you’ll be guided through the steps of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), which is the method most highly recommended by sleep experts for overcoming insomnia. You’ll also learn Effortless Mindfulness and Yoga Nidra, which have been shown to make CBT-I much more effective. And you’ll be learning all of these methods in a way that’s fun, enjoyable and requires very little effort.
What you learn in the course will help you fall asleep and get back to sleep effortlessly, wake up in the morning feeling more energized and refreshed, and have more energy throughout the day. You may even find that what you’re learning to help you sleep with ease gives you a greater sense of ease during the day as well.
When you sign up for the course, in addition to learning the drug-free sleep methods mentioned above - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia, Effortless Mindfulness and Yoga Nidra - you’ll have a lot of personal support along the way:
I’m available in our virtual Conversation Lounge to offer guidance, answer your questions and help you tailor what you’re learning to your individual needs
You’ll have the support of fellow learners with whom you can share your challenges and celebrate your progress
You’ll have access to a library of audio, video and written resources which include extra practices and music I specially composed to help develop your capacity for deeper more restorative sleep
ARE YOU READY TO GET STARTED?
To learn more about the components of the Effortless Sleep Course, click on any of the links below:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)
Effortless Mindfulness
Yoga Nidra
Music for Sleep
Effortless Breathing and Relaxation
Effortless Sleep FAQ
You can learn more about our approach to effortless sleep by subscribing to our newsletter.
The cost for lifetime access to the Effortless Sleep course is $129
To purchase the course, click on the Sign Up button below.
This will take you to the checkout page, where you’ll be asked to create an account before purchasing the course.
Our Effortless Mindfulness Course:
Train Your Brain, Change Your Life
In this course, you’ll learn a variety of breathing, relaxation and effortless mindfulness practices that can change the physical structure of your brain in a way that will:
improve your physical health
generate more happiness and overall well-being
improve your concentration and mental clarity
help you learn more easily and work more productively
develop a greater sense of ease and effortlessness in all you do
ultimately develop a deeper sense of meaning and purpose in life
As you progress through the course, you’ll learn how to make the practices a more and more integral part of your life. You’ll also learn how the skills you’re developing can, in addition to improving your own life, help you be a positive influence on the world around you.
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
The course provides you with a simple and very practical understanding of how your brain works to create stress, illness, suffering, and all kinds of imbalances in your life. It guides you through a wide variety of breathing, relaxation and effortless mindfulness practices that work to change the physical structure of your brain so that it naturally begins to generate more ease, calm, and effectiveness in virtually every aspect of your life.
You’ll learn how your brain and nervous system evolved to function in a balanced way, and how that functioning has been thrown off-balance by the stresses and strains of the modern world. You’ll learn both inner and outer approaches to rebalancing your brain programming so that it can do its job of improving your health, your ability to learn and be productive at work, and of creating an experience of deep inner peace, calm and happiness which we call “open, heartful awareness.”
Balancing your own brain programming will also give you a clearer sense of how you can help create circumstances in the world that support more balanced brain functioning for others and lead to a greater sense of connection and community.
To learn more about the Effortless Mindfulness Course,
click HERE.
To purchase the course, click on the Sign Up button below.
This will take you to the checkout page, where you’ll be asked to create an account before purchasing the course.
While you’re deciding whether to sign up for the course, you can learn more about effortless mindfulness by subscribing to our newsletter.
The cost for lifetime access to the Effortless Mindfulness course is $279
Our Effortless Mini Courses
Effortless Mindful Movement
Effortless Piano Improvisation
Effortless Breathing, Relaxation and Yoga Nidra
To learn more about these mini-courses, click HERE:
If you’re considering purchasing a mini course, it can be helpful to join our Effortless Living Community for a month or two. As a member of the community, you’ll have support for learning the practices on which the effortless approach of the mini-courses is based.
Testimonials
Effortless Sleep Course Testimonials
Thank you so much Don! Last night was the first night of restful relaxed sleep in a long time. I even woke up not stiff and achy this morning. I always hit the ground running every morning but this morning I did not have to rush because I woke up refreshed on my own.
Sheri K.
Thank you for this inspiring and very helpful journey . Dr. Salmon's competence and longstanding experience shine through the course, This has all helped me a lot in dealing with my chronic sleeplessness. I wholeheartedly recommend this course!"
Marco M.
I haven’t even finished this course and I’m already sleeping better and more consistently than I can remember. … This is a course about sleep, but more than that, it gently teaches a way of living that involves less effort, more awareness and greater ease. Highly recommended.
Anne P
All aspects of my sleep have changed for the better since taking the effortless sleep course. I’m falling asleep just about right away using your wonderful Yoga Nidra recordings. I’m amazed to find I’m sleeping through the night regularly, with almost no interruptions, something that hasn’t happened this frequently for a long time. What a difference this course has made!
Assetou X.
Effortless Mindfulness Course Testimonials
I loved the course, “Train Your Brain, Change Your Life.” For about a year before taking it, I had been learning mindfulness from a number of different sources. I feel like after taking Don and Jan’s course, I really “got” mindfulness for the first time, The music and videos are works of art, enjoyment, and instruction.. and, this is the best psychotherapy I have ever had. And I had lots of different kinds over my long life.
Paul S,
I found the instructions and practices were easy to understand, fun to do, and very effective for opening my heart and deepening my general appreciation for day-to-day life. And I loved the soothing voices and music in the instructional audios.
Dr. Shelley Thomas, Director, Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition, Middle Tennessee State University
Though I’ve been practicing meditation for quite a few years, I have found that with your “Train Your Brain” course I am better able to access that place of calm within, and that I have more fluidity and ability to change. The understanding of neural pathways has helped motivate me to be less obsessive, more able to let go of habitual ways of reacting and doing things.
Liz I.
