Living Stress Free® Mindfulness Community

Lou Guadagnino

 "When we learn how to practice mindfulness meditation we are doing much more than learning to calm down. We are learning how to appreciate and relate to our lives on a moment by moment basis. We start out sitting in mindfulness meditation so we can learn how to extend the experience of our practice into every facet of life. We learn how to directly experience our environment exactly the way it is. We put down our agendas and face others and the world around us. In this way mindfulness is not a self-improvement technique. Mindfulness practice teaches us to stop trying to improve everything, everybody, ourselves, and to just take a peek at things as they are." 

Lou has years of experiencing and becoming familiar with the meditative state of pure awareness as a direct result of practicing numerous meditation techniques from authentic Buddhist and Hindu traditions under the guidance of meditation masters. He discovered the experience of pure awareness is the same experience regardless of the path. He has a unique vantage point and ability to offer guidance and verify that you are practicing the technique properly and experiencing the state of meditation. Lou, along with his wife Marilyn, offers meditation instruction and spiritual coaching on an individual basis, in workshops, and gives public talks introducing their unique approach to spiritual teachings for everyone regardless of faith or lifestyle. 

 "The New Spirituality will be defined by its ability to improve the quality of each moment for every person that lives it. Therefore it can be practiced inside current religions or on its own without any religion." 

Lou Guadagnino 

Marilyn Guadagnino

 "I have always felt strongly about the healing power of music and its spiritual base. I am struck by the fact that the secret of music's power can be found in the silence. Caress the silence with the sound and you have beauty."

Marilyn Guadagnino is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist with 25 years experience providing individual and group therapy as well as skill building classes in a community mental health setting. She has studied and practiced meditation and yoga since 1992. As a professional musician she has performed with orchestras, recorded her own CD of original compositions, and taught music for many years. She created her own unique sound meditation technique based on the principles of Nada Yoga. Marilyn has presented at numerous conferences, college seminars and has offered public talks and workshops on meditation and stress free living with her husband Lou.  Marilyn is uniquely qualified to assist interested individuals in their quest for achieving a life of complete fulfillment: sustainable happiness, health and success in all areas of one's life. 

"Sound only exists because of silence.

Silence gives sound its form.
That space, that silence, is no different than the space between each breath, or the pause between two thoughts.
Silence is the same everywhere - it is universal. It is the connecting force of everything.
Silence is Oneness."

Marilyn Guadagnino