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On September 28, 2019, The Mindfulness Alliance will host its inaugural Uplift Buffalo event, WNY’s first Mindfulness Festival. Featuring world-renowned mindfulness teacher and New York Times-bestselling author Sharon Salzberg, this all day event will celebrate our region’s inner and outer revitalization and help expand our perceptions about social change.
Experience 40+ wellness related vendors, expert teachers guiding mindfulness techniques throughout the day, a Learning Center, a Kids Corner, arts-based offerings, book sales, food truck fancies and more! Experience the revolutionary wave and become a pioneering supporter of the mindfulness movement in Western New York!
For media inquires contact amhuurre@themindfulnessalliance.org EVENT GOALS
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Learn
Increase public awareness of the combined power that awareness and community can have on collective wellbeing Demystify mindfulness and illustrate its application in every aspect of daily life |
Experience
Provide a dynamic array of mindful experiences for the community to engage in and benefit from Create a welcoming environment that supports diversity, equity, and inclusion |
Enjoy
Build community region-wide among awareness-based practitioners, advocates, teachers and the general public Highlight the services and products of mindfulness-based community organizations and practitioners |
Ignite hope and joy!
EVENT DETAILS & TICKETS
Uplift Buffalo will be held on September 28th, 2019 from 10am - 4pm at the Buffalo Grand Hotel.
General admission tickets are $10, Kids under age 10 are FREE.
When you purchase tickets online, you will receive an email confirmation with your ticket information enclosed.
Please bring your ticket email with you for event entry.
General admission tickets are $10, Kids under age 10 are FREE.
When you purchase tickets online, you will receive an email confirmation with your ticket information enclosed.
Please bring your ticket email with you for event entry.
Questions, contact info@themindfulnessalliance.org
Community Scholarships
If the price of a ticket prevents you from coming - let us know! Community scholarships are available.
If the price of a ticket prevents you from coming - let us know! Community scholarships are available.
VENUE
WNY WALKS! 9am FREE
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SERENITY STAGE
The Art of Mindful Living & the Joy of Community Connection
Meet Our Participating Teachers!
Rolf Sovik, PsyD
President & Spiritual Director 
Carrie Jacobson
Co-owner |
Catherine Cook-Cottone, PhD
Founder & President 
Nicole Chumsky, LMHC
Founder & Director |
Felicitas Kusch-Lango
Founder & Director 
Michelle Gigante
Director |
LEARNING CENTER
How to Lead a More Mindfully Inspired Life & Information to Get Started
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The Learning Center offers a mini-speaker series, educational materials, and experts on hand to answer all of your questions!
Come hear talks from counselors, doctors, psychologists, educators, lawyers, professors, facilitators, and advocates on:
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VENDORS
Enjoy holistic services, local artisan products, and food truck fancies!
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Utilizing more than 17,000 square feet of event space at the Buffalo Grand Hotel, Uplift Buffalo will offer vendor space to more than 40 wellness-related vendors.
NOW ACCEPTING VENDOR APPLICATIONS
We are seeking those in the health, wellness and holistic fields to come and vend, sample or demonstrate - share your services with the community! Questions to vendor@themindfulnessalliance.org June 1st: Selection process begins
September 1st: Applications close |
Meet Our Vendors! and more to come...
Raffle Ticket Winners!
Congratulations to all the basket winners! Vendors will be contacting you directly.
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Aura Salt Cave & Wellness - 736862
Aquarian Expressions - 737033 Be Embodied - 756846 Blessings by Nature - 736039 Blooming with Health - 636008 Buffalo Zen Dharma Community - 736722 Core Mental Health Counseling, PLLC - Vendor has Create Space Buffalo - 788844 Dark Forest Chocolate - 788666 doTerra Essential Oils - 736517 East Meets West Yoga - Vendor has FotoGrafix Vendor Elle James Interior Design and Home Decor - 736316 Flowered Wellness - 788538 Gentle Spirit Botanicals - Vendor has Get Your Life Together Yoga - 635805 Healing Care Givers - 788375 Health Essentials of Western NY - 788606 HeartFire Yoga - Vendor has Himalayan Institute of Buffalo - 736965 Indigo Awakening - 788638 Kir-roma reikqi - 788614 LNW Jewelry Collection - 736430 Life Itself - 736780 Maddie's - Vendor has Maiden of the Waters - 788615 |
Mala Contemplative Education - Vendor has
Nani~Wan Luxe - 736174 NestingDoll - 736482 New World Gifts & Books - 788543 The Nia Technique: Neuromuscular Integrative Action - 736757 Peaceful Heart Mindfulness Community of Buffalo - Vendor has Presence - 788609 Reiki with Andrea -636137 Salsa for the Soul - Vendor has Starry Wonder - 635683 Suzanne Suchan Happiness and Holistic Healing - 736564 The Light House Birth and Wellness Collaborative - 737378 The Mindfulness Alliance - 788880 The Pilates Loft - Vendor has Transforming with Tracie - 736796 Universal Design Yoga, Unversal Design Enterprises Vendor Up North Apothecary Co. - 736944 Veda WNY foundation/Harisa Ayurveda Wellness Center - Vendor has WNY Qigong - 736764 Young Living - 635652 |
EMBODIED EXPRESSION
Making visible the intrinsic values of mindful connection and presence in community
A diverse series of dances by Buffalo-based artists.
Programming and choreography by Anne Burnidge, Director of Anne Burnidge Dance, Associate Professor and Chair of the UB Department of Theatre & Dance.
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Nitya Vedantam
University at Buffalo |
KIDS CORNER
It's never too early to start teaching kids how to be mindful, focused and regulate themselves. Our Kids Corner has just the right age-appropriate activities to keep your kids of all ages engaged in a mindfulness practice all their own.
Parents & Teachers
Our Resource Center has free materials for you, including handouts outlining activities, materials, and instructions!
Our Resource Center has free materials for you, including handouts outlining activities, materials, and instructions!
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Yoga for All Ages
*Thank you to Yogis In Service for facilitating!
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ACTIVITIES:
Kids will create a 'Calm Down Kit', taking home the items they create.
Kids will create a 'Calm Down Kit', taking home the items they create.
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*Additional all day offerings also include a Gratitude Wall, Sensory Walk and Joy Wall!
BOOK STORE
Visit our book store with over 150 titles for sale!
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A portion of the proceeds are being donated - thank you Talking Leaves Books! And don't miss the book signing opportunity: 1:00pm - Sharon Salzberg book signing |
FOOD TRUCK FANCIES!
Enjoy the delights of food truck fun from 11:30 - 2:00pm
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LABYRINTH
Ever try a walking meditation?
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10:00 - 12:00pm & 1:30-4:00pm
Connect with this ancient practice when you walk our indoor labyrinth. The Mindfulness Alliance founding member and certified labyrinth walk facilitator Mitch Allegre will be there to support your contemplative experience. |
WHO WE ARE
The Mindfulness Alliance is a grassroots 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that unites mindfulness practitioners, facilitates trainings, hosts events large and small, and runs educational programs. Our mission is to combine the power of mindfulness practices with the power of community to advance collective wellbeing. The Mindfulness Alliance works with all manner of professions and organizations across the region. Together, we can build healthier, flourishing regions where individuals, institutions and systems embody more compassion, justice and inclusivity.
WHY MINDFULNESS
From celebrities like Anderson Cooper to our local teachers, more and more of us are practicing mindfulness. Mindfulness is a state of mind and a life practice. It is an open, curious, and kind engagement with what is happening in the present moment. Leading scientists have studied its benefits and learned that mindfulness helps us increase our ability to regulate emotions, decrease stress, anxiety and depression, reduce chronic pain, and increase overall well-being and happiness.
SPONSORS
We invite you to be a sponsor of this new region-wide event. By supporting The Mindfulness Alliance, and contributing to awareness-based social change, you help shape our future! Become a Sponsor of Uplift Buffalo today.
Questions, contact info@themindfulnessalliance.org
Deep gratitude to our sponsors for making this event possible
Community Supporter Sponsor
Featured Speaker Sponsor
Forget-Me-Not Sponsor
Ticket Sponsor
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Community Supporter Sponsor
Connection Maker & Ticket Sponsor
Printing Sponsor
Marketing Sponsor
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DONATIONS/SHOUT OUTS
When you purchase tickets you will have the opportunity to support Uplift Buffalo by making a donation.
Become an Uplifter, and we'll give you a shout out here!
Become an Uplifter, and we'll give you a shout out here!
Thank you to our Uplifter Sponsors!
Katie Darling, University at Buffalo
Ophelia Morey, University at Buffalo
Michele Mercer, Millennium Collaborative Care
Danielle Pelfrey Duryea, Boston University
Michelle Zimmerman, Buffalo Public Schools
Kristin Santa Maria, Kids Corner designer
Ophelia Morey, University at Buffalo
Michele Mercer, Millennium Collaborative Care
Danielle Pelfrey Duryea, Boston University
Michelle Zimmerman, Buffalo Public Schools
Kristin Santa Maria, Kids Corner designer
SPECIAL THANKS
To our dedicated Planning Team and Volunteers
Coming soon!