Be Awake
Energy in Cape Town

Be awake offers mindfulness training, yoga, and psychotherapy for those in the corporate context. A range of meditation cds and products can also be obtained from the website. Meditation and mindfulnesss training can be taught in one to one settings or group contexts according to need.

Linda Kantor is a counselling psychologist, hypnotherapist, and yoga teacher based in Cape Town. Since 1993, Linda has run a private psychotherapy practice at Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital. Linda is also the co-founder and co-director of the Cape Town Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Programme, which has been running since Having trained with the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre in the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn, she has developed teachings and workshops in mindfulness for different contexts and is a certified mindfulness trainer. To date she has taken this work into a variety of settings including corporate stress workshops, executive development programmes, community based interventions, as well as programmes for health professionals and for the general public. Linda is a part-time lecturer at the University Of Cape Town Graduate School Of Business, where she teaches Mindful Leadership on the Executive MBA programme. She is also a lecturer on the University of Stellenbosch’s Certification in Mindfulness-Based Interventions. She has her own product and consulting company called BE AWAKE in order to make her work more accessible to the private and corporate market, including writing books, recording CDs, and other products. Linda also co-owns a corporate training business called The Mindful Company, providing mindfulness solutions to the organizational space. Linda is currently undertaking her PhD, looking at The Application of Mindfulness in the Organizational Context. Life seems to be speeding up and the sea of change we swim in is choppy; the demands of both family and work impact on both mind and body. Every moment our attention is pulled in many directions. Our world seems to value individuals for what they produce rather than who they are; we are experts at preparing to live our lives, working hard to get somewhere, yet we are not so good at remembering that we are alive here and now. We have become obsessed with continuous improvement, with corresponding increasing levels of stress, and less connected relationships. How can heal toxic environments where stress and anxiety diminish creativity and performance? How can we create habits that impact positively on our state of mind? How can we pursue our goals and at the same time choose to enter every moment with fresh awareness and curiosity? How can we lead our lives with wisdom, balance, courage and confidence, even when the waters are choppy? How can we bring more compassion, trust, and care to ourselves and to others? Mindfulness training cultivates equanimity and well-being. If we are awake to the moment, we can touch the happiness and peace that is available to us all the time. We cannot stop the waves of our lives, but we can learn to ride them with more grace, peacefulness and wisdom. Our lives do not have to look the way we think they should. There is more gained by learning to sit with ourselves in stillness whilst we observe what it is that is driving us. Learn to be present to the moment, to flow with beauty and ride the tides.