The Pat Walker Health Center's department of Wellness and Health Promotion is excited to announce a new mindfulness course available to students for free at the new Wellness Center at the Garland Center!

Koru Mindfulness is an evidence-based course specifically designed for teaching mindfulness, meditation and stress management to college students. It was developed at the student counseling center at Duke University and has spread across the country. Koru has been shown to have significant benefits on sleep, perceived stress, mindfulness and self-compassion.

"We are very excited to offer this course at our brand new Wellness Center," says Dr. Ed Mink, director of wellness and health promotion. "Being more mindful can help you enjoy and appreciate life more, and help you better control your thoughts during the course of the day."

This four-week course teaches students how to better manage their stress by being more mindful and self-aware. "Koru Mindfulness helps put things in perspective so that you can consciously make an effort to think positively and accurately," says Mink. "This course will help you be aware of the subtleness of life and help you start living a heart-centered life focusing on the NOW. Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery. The only moment we ever truly have is the present."

Benefits of the Koru Mindfulness course: feel less stressed, stay calm and worry less, be more mindful, sleep better and use less self-judgment.

How to sign up:

Koru Mindfulness is taught over four weeks, in small, 75-minute classes. Koru is designed for those with all mindfulness experience levels. The course will begin March 16 at 5 p.m.

To sign-up for Koru Mindfulness, or for more information, email BKEggles@uark.edu. Class space is limited to 12!

For more information about Koru Mindfulness, go to korumindfulness.org.