Well-being is What We Want. Let's Move Out of the Box,
And Create the Reality We Desire.
Each workshop is designed to provide new experiences you can replicate until they become habits. Gain tools to replace automatic behaviors and stress reactions.
Special Events and Scheduled Classes - Winter 2012
Balance and Agility
Exercises to Improve Balance and Agility
January 18 -February 8, Overlake Hospital, Bellevue
Waltzing and Swinging

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Fall, 2011
Dancing into Your Warrior Woman
Play your way to powerful, versatile, authentic presence through
Salsa Skillplay©.
Presence Coaching works directly with posture, presence and essence. Practice simple antidotes to emotional and presence habits that block your intentions and weaken interactions. Gain the ability to lighten up, let go and connect more clearly with your strengths and with others. Day of Empowerment for Women, Sept 30, Olympia
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Turn Intention into Action
You want to choose actions that lead to health and happiness. But it's difficult to follow through with new behaviors and discouraging when they are temporary. Learn why change is tough (or often temporary). Practice powerful (and fun) mindfulness-based coaching methods to stop fighting yourself and ease the transition from thought to living the healthy habits you choose.
October 13 & 20, 7-9PM Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland
Classes below are held on the phone
Tele-Workshops for Professionals Who Work with People,
Coaches, HR professionals, Therapists, Educators. Others
Ontological and Mindfulness-Based Coaching and Conversation
Where Passion, Skillfulness and Mindfulness co-exist
Powerful Promises - Powerful Relationships
Conversations of Clarity, Dignity, Honor and Ease
A practicum
September 27 - October 25
Want Ease and Shared Success
At home, at work, in the community?
Maybe even the world?
Create Conversations that Melt Confusion and Resistance,
Grow Intelligence, Relax Relationships and Facilitate Action.
Change the paradigm. Don't keep your thoughts and sentiments to yourself.
Provoke Possibilites and Cooperation through
Authentic and Skillful Requests, Promises and Sentiments.
Based in the teachings of Fernando Flores and Julio Olalla,
and applied mindfulness. Resources provided.
Weight Loss and Well-Being - Relax the Struggle
Erasing the Battle between Should and Wanna
Bring a Light-hearted, Respectful Attention to Your Body
And Create Ease for Losing and Maintaining Weight
Create habits that stick, without the battle, using - The method recommended by national health organizations
A leading edge professional coaching model for integrating change
Mindfulness practices for calm, self-tenderness and joy of eating
Diminish habits that defeat your vision and steal your joy - for good
Take home simple tools that halt the habitual, remind you what matters, and create contentment
One month of individual coaching is available to participants at a reduced rate, to support you in this fresh start in lasting well-being
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"Mia, I lost 8 lbs in three weeks, without even trying." TB
"I am in better overall health and more fit. Mia,
I greatly appreciate the way you taught class, the enthusiasm you displayed
and the way you were willing to work with individuals (especially me)
on their particular needs and desires." L.H.
Would you like to offer these workshops for your organization, church or club?
Let's talk
Relax at Will - A Workshop in Choosing Calm and Lightness
Through simple, on-the-spot centering practices, we are always capable of clear thinking, which allows us to lighten up and access our intelligence.
Would you like to -
- Relax and clear your mind anytime, anywhere?
- Instantly relax in the midst of a stressful event or conversation?
- Use your emotions, body, and mind as allies in choosing calm?
- Relax with pain?
Learn quick and easy calming techniques that increase focus and clarity, tone down the fight or flight response, and reduce physical, mental and emotional tension on the spot.
Choose Your Mood
Trade Irritation, Overwhelm and Resignation for
Trust, Confidence and Contentment
A Powerful Self-Coaching Class in Skillful, Authentic Communication
What would your world look like if everyone kept promises, asked for what they wanted with autheniticity and ease, held no grudges and were not pressed for time?
Re-create your relationships at work, home and in the community. Uncover the possibilities available to you, in your emotions, actions and language,
through your use of language and emotional intelligence, in both self-talk and conversations.
Take home concrete communication and centering skills that are critical to transforming the energy of an individual and within an organization.
"Dear Mia, after one session, I was able to have the necessary communications,
and boy is that a weight off! I felt more at easet han I had previously expected.
You are a great asset to our hospital!!" M.B.
Workshops and individual coaching make generous, life-enhancing gifts.
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