Mindfulness Cards: Meditation and Communication for Alpine Skiing

These Mindfulness Cards for Alpine Skiing have been designed to help YOU get the best out of your skiing sessions/days by giving you a valuable tool for training and improving this essential mental skill.

The cards are also an excellent tool for ALL snowsport instructors to use with their guests to ensure that they are intentional about ski-lift riding time making this valuable time as productive and positive as possible.

The cards themselves are in PDF format which is ideal for using on your smartphone during your skiing sessions so that you can remind yourself of each activity and its instructions.

The are a total of 10 practical activities. Five mindfulness meditative ski-lift riding activities and five mindful communication ski-lift riding activities.

The meditative activities are designed to be used when you are on your own, or in your own space, and not communicating with anyone else. While the mindful communication activities are all about applying mindfulness to your conversations with others be it with friends, colleagues, or your guests/learners if you are a snowsport instructor.

It should be noted that while the activities have been designed to be used on different types of skiing uplift they can be used anywhere on the mountain during your skiing sessions e.g., while waiting in the lift queue, before or after you make your descent, in the cafe/restaurant etc.

Each activity card includes a title, instructions, and tips so that the activity is easily understood and successful. The first side, or cover, has an inspiring photo from a ski resort/area as well as the activity title which helps to bring the activity alive!

Spending time working on your mental skills is just as important as working on your technique, tactics etc. These cards (and others available from Derek Tate Coaching) make this kind of training more easily understood and useable by integrating the activities into your skiing days.