The Art of Creating Space Within
A 6-week course to calm your mind
Learning to meet yourself with patience, self-kindness, and calm
The Art of Creating Space Within FEATURES
One-On-One 30-Minute Coaching Session
A one-on-one introductory session—a warm, personal opportunity for us to connect before the group begins, answer your questions, and gain a clear understanding of where you are and what you hope to gain from the course.
Weekly One-Hour Group Lessons With Instructor
Comprehensive lessons featuring stories, guided meditations, mindful attention and movement integration practices, plus handouts and takeaways so you gain the tools and confidence to create your own calming, sustainable practice.
Daily Recorded Practice Meditations
Each week includes a themed guided meditation during class, followed by an email with a short recorded meditation practice to support and deepen your ongoing journey.
Daily Grounding Exercises
During each class, you’ll take part in grounding activities, and afterward you’ll receive a weekly email with key takeaways, simple exercises, and practical tips to help you build lasting routines.
Meditation Community Groups
A private group created just for your class - similar to Facebook but by invitation only. Ask questions, share experiences, or simply let out what’s on your mind, knowing you’re supported by a safe, compassionate community.
Add-On Sessions
Interested in one-on-one sessions?
Curious about joining a meditation group?
Let’s talk.
The Art of Creating Space Within Curriculum
Beginning Where You Are
Understanding what meditation is (and isn’t), setting a personal intention, posture that's supportive, and learning how to work with the natural rhythm of your breath.
Listening to Your Body
Exploring how awareness of the body helps create a sense of steadiness and ease.
Making Space for Thoughts
Exploring how to witness thoughts without getting hooked by them, creating a mental gap that adllows for a calmer response.
Acceptance & Staying Within
Moving from resisting uncomfortable emotions to accepting them as they are. Focusing on how to stay present within your own experience.
A Calm Environment & Connections
Focusing on extending calm to your physical surroundings and relationships using active listening and intentional silence to create space for others.
Sustaining the Practice for Lifelong Peace
Creating a roadmap for making space a permanent habit so you develop daily implementations to ensure your practice continues.
From The Hearts Of My Clients
TESTIMONIALS
Connie
"Jill’s meditations have made a real difference in my life. Relaxing and centering myself while her soothing voice guides me through an inner journey makes my entire day go more smoothly. This may sound rather ordinary, but it makes an extraordinary difference in my day when I participate. I find I can embrace life, both good and bad, with understanding and compassion for myself and others. As a spiritual director and an end-of-life doula, I would not hesitate to recommend Jill to any of my clients."
Mary
"Nothing short of inspiring. From the moment we started chatting, I could hear the fervor in Jill’s voice and the genuine passion she held for wanting to help me. Jill radiates such enthusiasm, and I felt compelled to share my experience. We connected immediately. Jill understood the unique challenge I was facing. Her empathetic approach has helped me and continues to help."
Tamara
"Jill is absolutely incredible at honing in on what’s bothering me and applying meditation to get it resolved. Her voice is so calming and healing - whether it’s a health issue, a relationship problem, a work stressor, or something else. Jill helps me work through it by applying meditation and helping me on my journey. She’s truly so good. I highly recommend her."
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Disclaimer
I understand that by using this website, I will be receiving coaching services from Meditation To Live Well LLC, which are not intended to substitute for professional mental health care or medical care, and are not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any mental health or medical conditions. I also understand that Meditation To Live Well LLC is not acting as a mental health counselor or a medical professional.
Right Vs Left Brain
Our left and right brain offer us two different dimensions of thinking and perceiving. The left side is rational and analytical, but also unreliable and dependent on our natural and controlled filters. The right side is abstract, conceptual and perhaps even more truthful, but its insights are harder to grasp intellectually.
The United States values the rationality and practicality of left brain thinking and puts more importance on it in our educational system. Concentrated thought and planning is considered to be needed for progress and success. Contrary to our right brain, its emphasis is on intuition, creativity, and spirituality. It takes in the emotional importance of the effect of our actions on others and their consequences for the world that surrounds us.
The left brain likes to categorize; the right, is more about holistic awareness, looking at the whole picture, looking at relationships, looking at how things fit together. It's okay that things are vague. Unlike the right, the left likes certainty. It's about living things rather than abstract. The left brain manages what is repetitive, familiar, and mundane.
A left brain meditation would be a disembodied experience, a very detached experience; in contrast, a right brain meditation would be more about really feeling the body and being present in the world. A left brain meditation may be about concentrating and focusing; the right approach would be about having very open awareness, accepting everything as it is within your awareness, not analyzing, and not judging. The left brain is also about manipulation, grasping, and changing things. The right brain is about accepting things as they are.
An example of a left brain meditation could be where you're counting the breath - a mental
process. In this meditation, you are using a mental process as a way of concentrating and
focusing.
In contrast, right brain meditation is about feeling the breath in the body, fully embodying the experience, and noticing it within the space around you. Practicing that the breath isn't just something that happens to the body. The idea is an open awareness rather than concentration, embodied feeling rather than abstract, accepting things as they are rather than trying to change them.
A left brain meditation is positive thinking like, "I'm going to change my thoughts." "I'm going to make myself think positively." Whereas a right brain meditation would be, "I'm just going to allow my thoughts to be as they are." "I am aware of my environment in this moment."
My meditations invite you into this right brain way of being: open, gentle, and accepting. Together, we create space to notice whatever arises, without judgment or analysis. You simply rest in awareness, feeling the breath move through your body, embodying the experience of each inhale and exhale, and sensing how it unfolds in the moment, exactly as it is.
Listen to my Micro Meditation For Anxiety Podcast*, The Right Brain.
*Airs 6:00PM 9/28/25.
