“It truly changed my life. I’ve been getting up at 6 am every day and taking a few minutes to reflect. It’s impacted my life and relationship in so many ways already. It’s hard to believe that’s all it takes” – Erin
M28 = 28 Days To A Better Life.
Join Jess and BJ for 28-days of mindful living and meditation to decrease stress, increase peace of mind and allow for a more easeful life.
What Does The M28 Program Include?
- Access to private M28 Facebook group
- 28-days of supported meditation practice
- Mindful living skill building guidance
- Weekly Facebook Live sessions led by Jess and/or BJ
- Weekly guided meditation
- Opportunity for Q&A anytime via the Facebook group
- Daily postings of support, motivation, technique, healing and more.
How Much Does It Cost?
$28 for 28-days [Register Below]
When Does It Start?
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Why Should I Sign Up?
Should we start with the obvious? $28 for 28-days of mindfulness training is a very low-risk investment for a mindset shift that can no doubt create a better life. Now that’s out of the way, let’s talk science.
Currently, there are over 5,000 peer-reviewed published studies supporting the benefits of mindfulness practices and meditation on everything from insomnia to digestion to pain reduction and stress relief.
In a study out of Harvard University in 2011 (Holzel, Lazar et. al 2011) researchers found that meditation and mindfulness can literally change your brain. After just 8-weeks of daily mindfulness and meditation, practices, MRI scans showed increased gray matter in areas of the brain related to:
- memory and learning
- perspective taking
- self-regulation and emotion
- empathy and compassion
- executive decision making
And decreased gray matter in the amygdala, the fight or flight center of the brain. In other words, more of the good and less of the bad.
Who Are Jess and BJ?
Jess Gumkowski
Jess is Head Yogi at YogiTriathlete. She is a yoga instructor, meditation teacher, Ironman triathlete, ultra runner, author, speaker, and podcast host.
She spent many years of her life shackled to her mind. Thoughts of fear, anxiety, stress and low self-esteem imprisoned her for decades. She found herself in her 30s feeling overwhelmed, underproductive and seeking a better way of life. Through simple mindfulness practices, the busy thoughts of her mind became options rather than the lens through which she lived allowing her authentic life to start to unfold.
She believes, and science now backs, that present moment awareness is essential to peak performance in every aspect of life. From brokering business deals to washing the dishes, mindfulness is a portable gift that is the greatest life management tool we can learn. With contagious enthusiasm, Jess brings her mindfulness techniques to the platform of modern day life in an easily digestible manner.
BJ Gumkowski
BJ is an 11x Ironman triathlete, yoga instructor, personal trainer and mindfulness-based triathlon and running coach. His zeal for life is infectious as is his passion for serving those around him in achieving their greatest dreams.
BJ’s mindfulness practice was created out of his darkest night. In training for Ironman Lake Placid in 2014, he suddenly had to attend to his dying and first ever dog, Harrison. While in service to him, carrying him up and down stairs, BJ severely herniated a disk in his lower back. Unable to train and in excruciating pain, he sat by the side of his best friend and assisted him with his transition from this world.
After his death, BJ was left with deep grief and a debilitating injury which led him down a dark, very dark, path. Unable to race Ironman Lake Placid due to his injury BJ found it very difficult to comprehend the loss of his dog and the loss of his ability to move his body.
He was depressed, lost, upset, angry and extremely terrified that life would never return to normal especially his triathlon career. With these deep feelings of loss and despair, he started to drink more to numb the pain.
Then one afternoon a very small window opened and he heard a voice scream out “get up and do something about it!”. In that moment, he reached out to a meditation teacher that Jess had offered to him numerous times, but he was too caught up in his sorrow to take action.
The first session changed his life.
It has been 4 years and BJ believes that mindfulness and meditation brought him back to life. A life that he can be happy about. A life that can exist with or without triathlon. A life that allows him to continue to grow and help others working through similar sadness in their lives. BJ begins every single day of his life now sitting quietly in the practice of meditation.
