Intentional • Powerful • Life-changing MBSR PROGRAMME
Join this 8-week programme to start healing your heart, body and soul.
It’s a perfect time to come together and nourish ourselves.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) eight-week program, developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Research shows that MBSR is enormously empowering for patients with chronic pain, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and gastrointestinal disorders, as well as for psychological problems such as anxiety and panic.
WHAT IS MBSR?
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a form of mindfulness training to assist people with anxiety, depression, chronic illness and pain. It supports chronic physical and psychological conditions.
Mindfulness is the non-judgmental acceptance and investigation of present experience, including body sensations, internal mental states, thoughts, emotions, impulses and memories, in order to reduce suffering or distress and to provide an increase in well-being.
I utilize a combination of mindfulness meditation, body awareness and mindful movement practices, including the exploration of patterns of behaviour, thinking, feeling and action to develop a capacity for greater calm and teaches practical skills to manage stress.
Offered as a complement to traditional medical and psychological treatments, not as a replacement, MBSR has proven to be effective in helping to treat a wide variety of medical conditions.
Throughout the program you will be consciously and systematically working with the challenges and demands of your everyday life, with me (a Certified Instructor) in a safe and supportive environment.
You will receive formal and informal MBSR meditation practices, including gentle guided instruction, the opportunity to share with the group to enhance awareness in your everyday life. You will also receive one-on-one check-ins throughout the course.
Class sizes are limited to facilitate group connection and conversation.
benefits OF PARTICIPATING
You will learn to re-create your relationship to stress. Participants report improved attention skills, emotional regulation, reduction of worry and rumination, lasting improvement in psychological and physical symptoms exacerbated by chronic stress and improved behavioural outcomes including better sleep, lower blood pressure, and fewer worries.
Approach your life with more composure, energy, understanding and enthusiasm. Develop the ability to cope more effectively with both short-term and long-term stressful situations, gaining insight into response rather than reaction.
Enhance your ability to manage and reduce pain levels, improve your focus, resilience, and capacity to recover more quickly from challenging events.
Learn how to access and cultivate a natural capacity to actively engage in caring for yourself and find greater balance, ease, and peace of mind
(no experience necessary)
Do I need a referral from a doctor?
No. In most cases you do not need a medical doctor referral to be able to attend an MBSR course.
However, if you are under the care of a physician or mental health professional and have any specific health concerns, we would want to address those with you prior to your acceptance into the MBSR program.
Brief mindfulness meditations
Download and share these mindful meditations.