Angie Bucu is a Certified Mindfulness Instructor and Mindfulness Teacher Trainer with the Academy for Mindful Teaching. She teaches mindfulness across the community from children and adolescents to their parents, teachers, and others working with children.
Originally from Australia Angie has called Hong Kong home since 1992. After leaving the corporate world where she practiced as an accountant she completed a Master of Wellness and has trained in various Mindfulness-based interventions.
Angie goes into detail in the podcast of what mindfulness is, what are the benefits of mindfulness. She describes how she practices mindfulness and how she helps promote mindfulness across the community.
Timings
00:29 The journey starts in Hungary, via Australia and into Hong Kong… I used to be an accountant…
5:37 I ended up not being so well… Stress… physical, emotional…
9:32 Enrolling in the first “Masters of Wellness Program”… I did want to go back to university… Mind, Body Wellness…introduced to different modalities… I was invited to be a tutor…
12:17 The stories I heard from the university students were really heartbreaking… I found mindfulness to be the most useful…10:52 That’s how I came across Eline Snel author of “Sitting Still Like a Frog”…
15:09 In 2016 she invited a few us …to begin our training… touching as many young people as possible…
16:28 Not only teaching children… but now teaching others… maybe school teachers…. mental health professionals… mums… it’s all mindfulness…
18:48 We have a university professor…in Hong Kong… interested in doing some research is the local schools… broadening the reach of mindfulness…
20:05 Mindfulness based stress reduction… what a beautiful program John Kabat Zin created…
21:16 Mindfulness is simply being aware of what we are doing in the present moment, in this moment now…
23:07 We live so much in our thoughts… self criticism…self judgement … opinions…it’s a way of pausing… not reacting…
25:31 Calmness may come but isn’t always going to be immediate…
27:18 Through pausing we then realise what needs to relax…
29:39 Home body …a way of re-introducing this home to ourselves… the body is intelligent…
31:00 Pause often during the day… check in, how does the body feel…
32:26 [Mindfulness] There is so much out there… access to incredible teachers… It can be really helpful to practice in groups… learn for yourself with the support of a group… to help hold the space…
34:23 We can learn a lot from others…practicing in community…
36:30 That inner critic…can soften…find the compassionate side of ourselves… acceptance… patience…
39:02 You can’t have mindfulness without heartfulness …
40:33 [Morning routine]…To read a poem… I read a poem and it shifts…how the day begins…
42:00 [Passions] …around mindfulness – a lot ….scuba diving… and extreme scuba diver…I’m interested in moving towards relational mindfulness…non violent communication and mindfulness…
45:55 Covid has given us all, and for me an opportunity to learn…
Books
Jane O’Shea – Follow yourself home
Jon Kabat-Zinn – Anything he’s written
Tara Brach – Radical Acceptance
Matthew Walker – Why we Sleep
Daniel J. Siegal – Whole Brain Child, Brain Storm
Tim Winton
Quote : To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten - Arne Garborg
Contact Angie
https://mindfulnessteachers.hk
https://www.facebook.com/angie.bucu
https://www.facebook.com/amt.asia.methodelinesnel/
https://www.instagram.com/angiebucu/
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