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The Bakken Center’s new Nourishment in Every Season workshop provides skills, strategies, and inspiration to prepare delicious, healthy food.

It’s estimated that one in four people will develop cancer at some point in their life, and with that cancer diagnosis comes a lot of uncertainty.

At the Bakken Center, the focus on purpose has evolved during its 30-year history to ensure accessibility and meaning for all.

New program aims to help with focus on mindfulness and personal wellbeing

The terrace area, overseen by the Bakken Center, contains several raised garden beds. Several University faculty, staff, and students decided to come together to give it new life—literally—as a meditation garden.

My main intention is around helping people understand that yoga is for everyone,” says Amy Wheeler, PhD, the facilitator of the Bakken Center’s Online Therapeutic Yoga Series.

An immersive arts experience that blends art and science to build community and explore reciprocity with the planet.

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been few opportunities for mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) facilitators to gather in person to share, learn, and connect. The Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing changed that in April with a workshop to convene MBSR trainers in a spirit of renewal.

Hundreds of people across Minnesota and around the world tune into the Bakken Center’s free Mindful Mondays sessions each week. 

The University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing and the YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities are teaming up on a study to help these adults enhance their health and wellbeing so they can live their best lives. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the study focuses on developing and testing a new educational program called Mindful Movement which aims to help adults ages 50 and up overcome barriers to exercise, and gain the skills and motivation to improve their wellbeing.