Ease stress, improve focus, and restore your energy with mindfulness

Support for Building Your Mindfulness Superpowers


Hoos Well provides employees and spouses on the UVA and UPG Health Plans with free access to eM Life— a live, virtual mindfulness solution to help you build skills to manage stress and anxiety, improve focus, and enhance your well-being.

Update on the 2024 1% Challenge in eM Life

The last day to begin the 2024 1% Challenge in eM Life has passed. Participants who began the challenge before October 12, 2024, can earn a $50 Hoos Well reward by practicing at least 14 minutes (1% of a day) in live or on-demand sessions in eM Life for at least 25 days during the 40-day period from when they started the challenge. Click the link below for details and to browse FAQs and information about when rewards will appear in your Hoos Well Portal account and paycheck.

Learn more and browse FAQs about the 1% Challenge

eM Life features

Hoos Well has partnered with eM Life to provide you with many resources that you can apply to everyday life and chronic conditions, to promote health and happiness:

  • Live, interactive, online classes offered many times each day by 35 world-class instructors
  • Hundreds of hours of on-demand mindfulness content     
  • Twelve, immersive, multi-week programs that focus on specific health situations and well-being topics
  • Expert-led community to gain support, purpose, accountability and perspective  
  • Easy accessibility through the eM Life website or mobile apps (iOS and Android)
Log in to eM Life Create your free account Step-by-step guide to registering

How Do I Benefit From Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is being fully aware and in the present moment without judgment. It can help you manage stress and anxiety, find gratitude, improve sleep, and enhance your overall well-being.

Create your eM Life account today
4,500 +

UVA registered users of eM Life

22 %

decrease in perceived stress after just 4 weeks

125K +

yearly minutes of mindfulness at UVA

Benefits You Can Expect

  1. Increased ability to manage stress, anxiety, difficult emotions, and pain 

  2. Enhanced happiness, sleep, overall well-being, and life satisfaction

  3. Greater gratitude, patience, kindness, compassion, and connectedness  

  1. Improved ability to watch your experience from a helpful distance, without judgment or reactivity

  2. Improved focus, attention, performance, and ability to expand or change your perspective

  3. Sustained access to your values, intentions, intuition, and deeper wisdom

Overview of eM Life

Watch this 3-minute video to learn how to navigate eM Life's live programs and on-demand content.

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Introductory webinar

Learn more about mindfulness and how to get started with eM Life, and experience a guided mindfulness practice.

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A UVA faculty member's experience

UVA Professor Sandy Seidel shares her experience with eM Life and the 1% Challenge.