Different Paths to Effortless Living:
Our Effortless Living Community
Our Effortless Sleep Course
Our Effortless Mindfulness Course
Our Effortless Mini-Courses
The Effortless Living Community
Have you been meaning to meditate regularly, to exercise, eat better, or just live a saner life – but still haven’t managed to get around to it?
Are there things you manage to do once in a while that you know are good for you, and that actually make a positive difference in your life, but haven’t yet managed to do on a regular basis?
What if you could be part of a warm supportive community whose purpose is to help you get past your resistances, do those things you’ve been wanting to do, and at the same time, provides you with a way of connecting with others about things that matter to you?
In our online Effortless Living Community, you’ll get daily support for doing those things you want to do. And beyond that, you’ll have guidance for practicing a kind of effortless mindfulness that leads to a profound sense of peace and calm, helps you feel more connected to yourself, and awakens that child-like sense of wonder that so many of us lose touch with as adults.
A Whole Different Approach to Change
We’ve probably all been overwhelmed with advice about what we should eat, and how much and what kind of exercise we should do. We’ve heard that practicing meditation and mindfulness would help us to be less stressed. And maybe we even tried some of these things, but either they didn’t help, or worrying about doing them or doing them right just ended up adding more stress.
But maybe it’s not the eating or exercise or mindfulness practice that’s the problem. Maybe there’s something fundamentally off about the way we go about trying to control and fix our lives.
What if there were a radically different way of going about changing our lives? And what if there were some kind of practice that could help us tap into a deeper place inside from which change would be a gentler, more natural and more enjoyable experience?
Effortless mindfulness is such a practice.
But because the habit of controlling everything and everyone in our lives is so deeply ingrained, we tend to need a lot of support to approach even this “effortless” practice in a way that is truly relaxed, playful and fun.
So take a moment to imagine what it might be like to be part of a warm, inviting community where you can get support for doing all the good stuff you want to do . . . but more importantly, you can get support for a much more relaxed and organic way of going about it.
Happily, you don’t have to just imagine such a community because it actually exists.
Click HERE to learn more about the Effortless Living Community
To become a member the community,
click on the Sign Up button below:
In the Spring and Summer of 2025, we’ll be adding several mini courses which will range in price from $19-$49:
Effortless Piano Improvisation
Effortless Mindful Movement
Effortless Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
In the Fall we plan to add:
Effortless Mindful/Heartful Habit Change
Effortless Body Percussion and Body Rhythms
To learn more about these mini-courses, click HERE:
You will get much more out of the mini-courses if you join our Effortless Living Community for a month or two first, where you’ll have support for learning the practices that underlie the effortless approach to the mini-courses.
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 this and also develops your ability to shift into
a calm and centered state 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 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 energized and refreshed, and have more energy throughout the day. You may even find that what you’ve learned to help you sleep will bring 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 fro Insomnia, Effortless Mindfulness and Yoga Nidra - you’ll have a lot of personal support along the way:
I’m available every day in our virtual Conversation Lounge to offer daily guidance, answer your written questions and help you tailor what you’re learning to your individual needs
We have weekly live zoom sessions in which I review the practices and information for the week and answer your questions in real time
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 to help you develop your capacity for deeper more restorative sleep, and music I specially composed to help your sleep
You’ll have the option to join the private Alumni Group within our Effortless Living Community for continued support with sleep as well as learning how to bring a greater sense of ease and effortlessness into all areas of your waking life.
ARE YOU READY TO GET STARTED?
To learn more about 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
To purchase the Effortless Sleep 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.
Please note that the next course begins on October 1, 2025. Because it is a cohort course, all students will be going through the course at the same pace, creating a tight-knit learning community. I will be present every day of the course to help guide everyone toward the best sleep possible.
While you’re waiting for the course to start, you can learn more about effortless sleep by subscribing to our newsletter.
And a reminder: In addition to basic breathing, relaxation and other practices to calm the nervous system, there is a lot to learn in the sleep course that is specific to sleep. By joining our Effortless Living community for a month or two first, you’ll be able get a good grounding in those basic practices. Then, when you start the sleep course, you can focus more fully on the techniques that work specifically on helping you get a full, restorative night’s sleep on a regular basis.
The cost for lifetime access to the Effortless Sleep course is $229
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 find ways to make the practices a more and more integral part of your life. You’ll also gain an understanding of how you can apply the skills you learn in the course to improving not only your own life, but to helping you to be a positive influence on the world around you.
Learning About Your Brain as You Learn the Practices
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. And you’ll learn both inner and outer approaches to rebalancing your brain programming so that it can return to its job of improving your health, your ability to learn and be productive at work, and to creating the 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 everyone – in ways that are organic and non-intrusive and that lead to a greater sense of connection, community, and a deeper sense of meaning and purpose in life.
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.
Please note that the next course begins on August 1, 2025. Because it is a cohort course, all students will be going through the course at the same pace, creating a tight-knit learning community, and I will be present every day of the course to help guide everyone toward the best sleep possible.
While you’re waiting for the course to start, you can learn more about effortless mindfulness by subscribing to our newsletter.
The cost for lifetime access to the Effortless Mindfulness course is $279
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.
