Transform your happiness and well-being with mindfulness
Build Scientifically Proven Mindfulness Skills with eMLife
Hoos Well partners 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
2026 Q4 Programs - Theme: Cultivating Joy
Joy is often mistaken for a fleeting emotion, something that appears unexpectedly, sparked by luck, success, or external validation. But unlike momentary happiness, joy is not something we simply stumble upon. It is something we can intentionally cultivate. With practice, patience, and care, joy can grow into a lasting source of strength, resilience, and well-being.
Joy isn't something we wait for; it's something we create through the small choices and mindful moments of each day.
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September Programs - Theme: Reset your Routine
Mindfulness is about connecting to the present moment, without judgment. When we apply mindfulness to our daily lives, we focus our attention on experiencing what is happening right now. We can find joy and let go of the distractions of future worries or emotions from the past. Developing greater awareness, emotional regulation, and attentiveness are just a few of the benefits you can expect with a mindfulness approach. Learn how to apply mindfulness principles to your daily life and focus your attention on the present moment experience and let go of future worries or past emotions. Check out this on-demand mindful programs to live with more ease:
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October Programs - Theme: Resilience
Navigating highs and lows in life is part of the human experience. What if you could be a beacon of light for yourself in low moments? It starts with building resilience. Resilience means the ability to quickly recover from setbacks. Mindfulness practice gives us the tools to become more resilient, and respond to challenges skillfully.With mindfulness practice, you can Build a positive mind-body connection to relieve stress, improve your mood, and enhance the overall quality of your life. Make sure to check out these on-demand programs to start building resilience:
- 7 Days of Resilience
- Resilience Practices
- 7 Days of Building Healthy Mental and Emotional Habits
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Control What You Can, Accept What You Can't : Opening The Hand 5-Minute Practice with Dr. Roger
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November Programs - Theme: Gratitude
A simple but effective way to increase our happiness and wellbeing is with gratitude. Practicing gratitude means intentionally noticing the good in our lives. When we start to observe the little wins in our daily life, these moments add up and create a healthy balance from life’s challenges.The mental health benefits of gratitude practice include improved mood, reduced stress, relieved depression, enhanced empathy, strengthened relationships and better sleep. A regular gratitude practice even positively impacts immune system function.
Gratitude is a skill that can be developed with mindfulness. Check out these on-demand programs to kick off your gratitude practice:
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December Programs - Theme: Joy and Happiness
We are all capable of feeling joy. It is an ability we are born with, similar to our ability to feel love for another person. Our capacity to feel joy may seem distant if it is neglected or shrouded by other thoughts and emotions, but it is encouraging to know that we are perfectly capable of re-connecting with joy in our daily lives.Joy is easily accessible with mindfulness practice. It’s as simple as setting an intention to practice joy as a state of mind. Studies show that with consistent practice, cultivating joy reduces stress, helps us sleep better, increases our energy levels, and even enhances immune system function.
Mindfulness practice gives you the tools you need to live a more joyful life and experience greater happiness. Check out these on-demand programs to tap into happiness and joy in your daily life:
- Grateful & Happy
- 7 Days of Happiness
- 7 Days of Flourishing and Joy
- 7 Days of Thriving with Positivity
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Live Immersive Programs - 2026 Q4
Check out these immersive, multi-week programs that focus on specific health situations and well-being topics:
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Training
- Mondays and Thursdays, 9/28-11/19, 1:00 - 2:00 pm ET
- Skills to Thrive in Anxious Times
- Wednesdays, 9/23 - 10/26, 1:00 - 2:00 pm ET
- QuitSmart Mindfully
- Mondays and Thursdays, 10/12 - 11/19, 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Training
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On-Demand Immersive Programs
On-Demand Immersive Programs:
- Strategies to Reduce Stress
- Mindful Leadership
- Weight Balance for Life
- Available anytime (on demand)
- Living Well with Chronic Pain
- Available anytime (on demand)
- Mindfully Overcoming Addictive Behaviors
- Available anytime (on demand)
- Mindfulness Based Cancer Recovery
- Available anytime (on demand)
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Quarterly webinar: It's Not about Time Management, It's about Attention Management
This program introduces the traps of multitasking and the Attention Zones Model. It discusses the idea that our minds will drift into zones of distraction or wasted time, either out of habit or because the task seems too great. We leave little room for what is most important, namely planning and strategizing that will help us be more effective and efficient. We will also discuss how to find the time and the space to be proactive.
The quarterly webinar will be held on the following dates:
- Wednesday, 9/9: 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET
- Wednesday, 9/23: 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET
Please note: this webinar is not eligible for Hoos Well rewards.
Register for It's Not about Time Management, It's about Attention Management
UVA employees & spouses have an eM Life account
Stress reduction among eM Life users at UVA
cost to enrollees in the UVA & UPG Health Plans
Benefits You Can Expect
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Increased ability to manage stress, anxiety, difficult emotions, and pain
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Enhanced happiness, sleep, overall well-being, and life satisfaction
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Greater gratitude, patience, kindness, compassion, and connectedness
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Improved ability to watch your experience from a helpful distance, without judgment or reactivity
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Improved focus, attention, performance, and ability to expand or change your perspective
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Sustained access to your values, intentions, intuition, and deeper wisdom