Amy Zoe Schonhoff

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Founder of Mindfulness in the Heartland. Amy has been practicing mindfulness for over 30 years, is a certified teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and a certified practitioner of Advanced Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness. It is her intention to inspire you to live as if every moment matters.

About Amy

With more than 30 years spent practicing and exploring the contemplative origin of mindfulness, I believe we all have the capacity to heal and reconnect to our inherent sense of goodness, worthiness, purpose, and knowing. That’s why I‘m passionate about helping people of all backgrounds learn the practices and principles of mindfulness, a way of being in the world that cultivates greater self-awareness, emotional regulation, compassion, and inner wisdom.

Mindfulness practice provides a space for reverence and moment-to-moment presence to bravely lean into challenges and relinquish attachments to what “should be” for the sake of what is. Within this inner landscape, we call in more kindness, compassion, and joy for ourselves and each other.

Practice Offerings

MBSR - Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Discover the Life-Changing Power of Mindfulness!

Are you ready to transform how you experience stress, challenges, and daily life?

Mindfulness is a proven mind-body approach to living that invites you to engage with life's

ups and downs with greater discernment, curiosity, and kindness.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an empirically-supported 8-week course

in mindful living developed in the late ’70s by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of

Massachusetts Medical Center. MBSR has been found to positively and often profoundly

affect participants’ ability to reduce medical symptoms and psychological distress while

learning to live life more fully.

Through the 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, you'll unlock

tools for:

Gaining greater self-awareness
Improving emotional and attentional regulation
Reducing stress and reactivity
Breaking free from negative habits
Cultivating self-compassion and resilience
Managing anxiety and chronic pain
Enhancing your overall well-being

Over the duration of the course, MBSR participants are introduced to the key principles of

mindfulness, provided with instruction for formal and informal practices, and engage in

short talks and discussions. With a commitment to involvement, both within and outside of

class, participants are pointed towards practices that integrate mindfulness into daily life.

More Information

Amy's Website

Our Philosophy

Mindfulness is an integrative mind-body approach to living that provides a means to relate directly with all of life’s varied experiences with greater discernment, curiosity, and kindness.

It is a practice of bringing gentle, purposeful attention to the present moment. As Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, describes it, “Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.”

Through the practices and principles of mindfulness, we learn to meet life with greater clarity, compassion, and resilience—opening the door to healing and deeper connection with ourselves and others.

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