Guided Mindfulness & Meditation

Guided Mindfulness Meditation at Main Library in Hillsborough form 12-1pm on Tuesdays in September 2025 beginning on 9/9. For Adults only. Registration is required. Main Library is located at 137 West Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278.

Mindfulness meditation can help you achieve greater focus, clarity, balance, and inner calm. Join us once a week for an hour of gentle and inspiring guidance as we explore basic mindfulness meditation techniques. These classes are suitable for beginners as well as experienced meditators who would like to refresh their practice. All are welcome! This is a free, four week series of once a week classes or adults led by mindfulness meditation teacher Valorie Hallinan. You can attend any session without committing to them all. Registration is required for each session. 

Dates and topics are listed below:

Tue., September 9th, from 12-1pm | Mindfulness meditation basics and mindfulness of the breath

Tue., September 16th, from 12-1pm: Mindfulness of the body

Tue., September 23rd, from 12-1pm: Mindfulness of thoughts and emotions

Tue., September 30th, from 12-1pm: Practicing what we've learned, and sampling a Wise Heart Practice

About the Instructor
Valorie Hallinan is a mindfulness meditation teacher certified by the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center and the Awareness Training Institute. Her teaching is informed by ancient wisdom practices combined with psychology, neuroscience, and trauma sensitivity.  She is a Level 1 Ecotherapist certified by the Earthbody Institute in Berkeley, and has completed the Sounds True Healing Trauma Program.  She loves to share the ancient wisdom practices of mindfulness, or insight, meditation that lead to greater health and well-being. Her teachings are a fusion of Western and Eastern thought that recognizes awareness, compassion and self-compassion as the resources we need for extraordinary times.

Valorie has been a medical librarian, a corporate media producer and an editor of nonfiction books for young people. Her poetry, essays, and audio essays have appeared in Library Journal, Terrain.org, and other literary journals. She has written educational books for children and for ten years authored the Books Can Save a Life blog.