Join UPlift with Tracy at Kurt Beyer Pool and Park at 5 p.m. on Friday, September 6 for mindfulness activities, including meditation, stacking rocks, and releasing stressors into the Canasawacta Creek. (Sun file photo)

NORWICH — UPlift with Tracy will be hosting a mindfulness event at 5 p.m. at Kurt Beyer Pool and Park in Norwich on Friday, September 6.

Participants will connect with nature, meditate, search for fossils and hag stones, focus on what makes them feel inspired and uplifted, and release what's weighing them down.

UPlift with Tracy Owner Tracy Owens said she utilizes mindfulness techniques to help people overcome things like depression, anxiety, malaise, discouragement, and feeling unmotivated.

"[Mindfulness is] being aware of all your feelings and thoughts, giving them honor and grace, and being able to focus on what you want. Having more control over your heart and mind on matters. Being aware of others, too, and becoming the best version of yourself," she said. "Presence and self control are powerful values for a happy mind, and mindfulness techniques help teach us how."

She said Friday's event will include a short hike down to Canasawacta Creek, where participants will search for fossils and hag stones, which are stones with naturally-occurring holes in them, and flat skipping rocks to use in mindfulness activities.