An 8-week live mindfulness course designed specifically for people recovering from anxiety.
Join the CourseFrom $199 early bird · Next course starts 13 July 2026
You sat down. Closed your eyes. Focused on your breath. And within thirty seconds your mind felt busier than ever.
My mind got busier.
I felt more anxious.
I kept wondering if I was doing it right.
I couldn't stop checking how I felt.
If that's been your experience, you're not alone.
Many anxious people don't struggle with mindfulness because they're doing it wrong. They struggle because nobody ever translated mindfulness into the language of anxiety.
Most mindfulness teachings were never designed specifically for people dealing with panic attacks, intrusive thoughts, health anxiety, DPDR, overthinking, or chronic worry. And yet many of the attitudes that support anxiety recovery are mindfulness attitudes.
DARE teaches us how to respond to anxiety.
Mindfulness teaches us how to relate to anxiety.
This course brings those two worlds together.
This isn't about becoming perfectly calm. It's about developing a different relationship with anxiety and with yourself.
This is not mindfulness as a relaxation technique. And it's not mindfulness as another self-improvement project. Every teaching, meditation, and discussion is designed for people who understand what it's like to:
Therapist, DARE Coach, Mindfulness Teacher & Self-Compassion Teacher
For years, Aida has helped thousands of people develop a healthier relationship with anxiety through DARE, mindfulness, and self-compassion practices.
Known for her warmth, clarity, and ability to translate mindfulness into practical everyday language, Aida brings together the teachings that have most deeply supported members of the DARE community.
"Mindfulness isn't about getting rid of anxiety. It's about changing your relationship with it."
— AidaOver eight weeks we'll cultivate the mindfulness attitudes that support lasting anxiety recovery.
Learn why mindfulness can feel both supportive and challenging when anxiety is present, and discover how awareness can become a source of stability rather than another thing to monitor.
Meditation: Pendulum Breathing
Learn how anxiety is fueled by constant interpretation and evaluation, and begin meeting your experience without immediately labeling it as good, bad, dangerous, or wrong.
Meditation: Noticing and Labeling What Is Present
Discover how urgency keeps anxiety alive and how patience softens the pressure to recover faster and feel better immediately.
Meditation: Staying With What Takes Time
Explore how anxiety convinces us we already know what will happen and learn how to meet life with curiosity instead of prediction.
Meditation: Meeting This Moment With Fresh Eyes
Begin rebuilding trust in your thoughts, body, feelings, and ability to handle uncertainty.
Meditation: Trusting the Body, Trusting the Mind, Trusting Life
Learn how recovery can become another project and discover the freedom that comes from letting go of constant self-improvement.
Meditation: Letting Go of Striving
Explore acceptance at a deeper level and learn how allowing becomes acceptance in action.
Meditation: Expanding Our Internal Space
Learn how to loosen your grip on the stories anxiety creates and reconnect with the wider experience of being alive.
Meditation: Loosening the Story
Thoughts on a Playground — a practice for allowing the mind to be exactly as it is.
Affectionate Breathing — a gentler relationship with the breath that moves beyond observation into connection.
Tapping & Breathing — a grounding practice that combines breath and rhythmic movement to support a highly sensitized nervous system.
Eight live weekly sessions on Zoom. Every session is recorded, so you can join live or catch up whenever suits you.
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Full 8-week live course
Yes. Many people join this course because mindfulness never really clicked for them in the past. A major focus of this course is helping you understand mindfulness through the lens of anxiety recovery.
This is more common than many people realize. We'll explore how to work skillfully with anxiety when it arises during practice and how to approach meditation in a way that feels supportive rather than overwhelming.
No. Whether you're completely new to mindfulness or have practiced for years, you'll be able to benefit from the course.
A busy mind is not a problem. The goal isn't to eliminate thoughts. The practice is learning a different relationship with the thoughts that are already there.
DARE teaches how to respond to anxiety. This course focuses on cultivating the deeper attitudes that support that response: acceptance, trust, patience, non-judgment, self-compassion, and letting go.
Every session will be recorded and available for replay so you can participate at your own pace.
If you've ever felt that mindfulness should help but somehow never quite connected for you... if you've longed to feel more at home within yourself... if you'd like to deepen the attitudes that sit at the heart of DARE recovery — we'd love to welcome you.
Join DARE Mindfulness for AnxietyFull 8-week live course