Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

What is MBSR?

Our 8-week 9 session Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course, based on the pioneering work of Jon Kabat-Zinn. This course is designed to help individuals reduce stress, enhance well-being, and cultivate mindfulness in their daily lives. Participants attend 2 and 1/2 hour sessions once a week for 8 weeks with a full-day (7 hours) class between the sixth and seventh sessions, providing a thorough and immersive experience into the practice of mindfulness.

Who It Is For?

This course is ideal for anyone seeking to manage stress, anxiety and panic, chronic pain, illness, fatigue, headaches, depression, GI Distress, Sleep disturbances, High blood pressure and compassion fatigue or other conditions exacerbated by stress. Whether you’re dealing with work-related stress, personal challenges, or health issues, MBSR offers tools and techniques that can help you navigate life’s pressures with greater ease and resilience.

Participants in the MBSR course can expect to:

• Reduce stress and anxiety levels
• Improve overall mental and physical health
• Enhance emotional regulation and resilience
• Increase focus, concentration, and productivity
• Foster a greater sense of peace and well-being
• Increased self-awareness
• Increase in positive thoughts
• Increased capacity for empathy
• Increased capacity for compassion
• Lower blood pressure and pulse rate
• Increased ability to regulate emotions
• Increase in ability to be non-judgmental
• Increased brain activation in regions associated with positive thoughts and mood

What you will learn?

• What Mindfulness is
• Perception and Positive Responding
• The pleasure and Power of Being Present
• The Shadow of Stress
• Finding the space for making choices
• Working with Difficult situations
• “Dive-in”
• Cultivating Kindness towards self and others
• The 8 week is the rest of your life