Resilience Training

Resilience Training empowers trainees to live as the highest expression of themselves in all aspects of life. In this respect, the goal isn’t to fix or change anyone, but instead to use tools, philosophy and daily practices to improve your ability to adapt to and bounce back from stress, adversity, trauma or tragedy, and live life from a place of wholeness, health, and inspiration.  

In order to do so, we must find ways to integrate life’s many facets while maintaining presence and clarity.  It is only when we learn to live in balance that we can achieve our highest potential and maximize our capacity to create impact in the world. Resilience training can provide this balance and the tools you need to meet life’s circumstances while maintaining your inner calm and clarity of mind. 


  • Cultivate a personalized self-care practice.  It is important to realize that a sane, comprehensive, sustainable practice to care for your body and mind can’t be developed by reading the latest New York Times best-selling book or taking a weekend yoga workshop. Your health and wellness is a dynamic work-in-progress that requires heartfelt commitment, practice, and oftentimes personalized guidance.  Your self-care routine should be a functional system built on effective practices, with long-term goals, and that can be carried out joyfully and consistently. Each person and stage of life are unique, meaning our exercise regimens, yoga, and meditation practice needs to adapt in harmony with what is present.
  • Deepen yoga and meditation practices:  Ideally, our yoga and meditation practices should illuminate life with energy, enthusiasm, resilience, steadiness, and uncaused joy. That is definitely not everyone’s experience when they begin practicing yoga and meditation. Let’s be honest: sitting down to meditate can feel a lot like listening to the ‘Top 10 Playlist’ of the thoughts you can’t get out of your mind. But it is possible to move from plateaus and stagnation to deep connection and inspiration in your practice. It requires an understanding of the underlying mechanisms that lead to true fulfillment both on and off your yoga mat/meditation cushion. By always looking to deepen our understanding of these nuanced practices, we can integrate them more holistically into all aspects of life. Resilience Training can help you navigate the layers of consciousness with insights that transforms pain and frustration into peace, purpose, presence, and growth.
  • Refining one’s life’s purpose.  Discovering our ‘calling’ in life is a practice of deep, soulful listening to discover what wants to take life through us. It also a process that requires a conscious, intelligent, organized thought process and plan. Your ‘dream’ can become a nightmare if it is not thoughtfully conceived and carried out. Living a life of ‘dharma’ brings both our lives and the lives of those around us into harmony.  Resilience training helps people identify their deeper purpose in life and guides clients to realize their goals in sustainable ways amidst challenges that may arise along the way.  
  • Creating meaningful change in the world.  A fully self-actualized life includes creating a positive impact in the world around us. There are many ways in which we can create change: money, time, intention, goods and services. Yet how can we create the most impact when we give? What is it that actually creates change? How can we create not just short-term impact, but also long-term and systemic changes in the process? How can we raise awareness and inspire others to create meaningful change? How can we learn the most from the experience?  

Are these questions a part of resilience training?  Absolutely.

  • "Molly delivers her teachings in a manner that makes them easily accessible to all. Her innate curiosity, enthusiasm for life, and inherent loving and compassionate nature provide a supportive, safe, and nurturing environment, that enables participants to deeply rest and relax, while learning to intimately explore the nature of their own experience." ~ Richard Miller, Founder of the iRest Institute

    Richard Miller, PhD, Founder of iRest Institute
  • "Ultimately, Molly’s passion for helping others shines through everything that she does. Whether it’s offering yoga practices to a group of veterans trying them for the first time or teaching a class to longtime students, she inspires everyone she works with to strive for a higher level of health and happiness.” ~ Todd Wolfenberg, CEO of Yoga International

    Todd Wolfenberg, CEO of Yoga International
  • "Molly doesn’t approach her writing with intellectual detachment; she infuses it with a deep commitment to improving people’s lives. She knows personally the power of the principles she writes about; they’ve changed her life. And, for her, that change comes with a responsibility to share, to spread the word, to help others find their way to a more open, mindful, and connected mode of living.” -  Peter Cooper, The Great Courses

    Peter Cooper, The Great Courses
Molly Birkholm