Transform your happiness and well-being with mindfulness

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Build Scientifically Proven Mindfulness Skills with eMLife

Hoos Well has partnered with eMLife to provide employees and spouses on the UVA and UPG Health Plans with complimentary access to mindfulness resources that you can apply to everyday life to promote health and happiness, manage stress and anxiety, and enhance focus and overall well-being.

The eMLife website and mobile apps (iOS and Android) include:

  • Live, interactive, online classes offered many times each day by 35 world-class instructors
  • Hundreds of hours of on-demand mindfulness content    
  • Immersive, multi-week programs that focus on specific health situations and well-being topics
Log in to eMLife Create a no-cost eMLife account Access eMLife through the Hoos Well Portal
5,000 +

UVA registered users of eMLife

18 %

decrease in perceived stress among UVA users

$ 0

cost to enrollees in the UVA & UPG Health Plans

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How Do I Benefit From Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is being fully aware and in the present moment without judgment. Watch this two-minute video to learn how mindfulness can help you manage stress and anxiety, find gratitude, improve sleep, and enhance your overall well-being.

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Overview of eMLife

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

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20-minute Webinar and Guided Practice

Learn how to get started with eMLife and experience a guided mindfulness practice.

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A UVA Faculty Member's Experience

Hear UVA Professor Sandy Seidel's experience with eMLife

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