MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION (MBSR) PROGRAM
8 WEEK LIVE & ONLINE secular, scientific, evidence-based program
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
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
– Jon Kabat-Zinn
MBSR Course Overview
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a highly experiential 8-week program with a blend of meditation, body awareness, and mindful movement.
The program provides a framework to support you with connecting more fully to yourself, others, and your life.
Learn how to clear your mind of thoughts, let go of fears and anxieties, reverse or prevent burnout, and get back in touch with your body and mind.
The program is suited for those coming to meditation for the first time or for experienced meditators who are looking to integrate mindfulness practices in daily life.
In this eight-week, nine-session course, you will learn practical ways to integrate mindfulness into daily life. Through key formal practices of sitting meditation, mindful movement and yoga, mindful communication, and exploration of thinking patterns, feeling and action, you will become better aware of habitual thoughts and behaviors that are causing you distress. You’ll learn new ways of relating to yourself and others, attaining newfound freedom to make alternative choices leading to more positive outcomes.
“Between stimulus and response there’s a space, in that space lies our power to choose our response, in our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Viktor Frankl
What to expect
● 8 group classes once a week (2-2.5 hour each).
● 1 Full day group class (6-7 hours).
● Gentle stretching, Hatha yoga and Body awareness practices. Sitting and walking meditations.
● Exploration of patterns of thinking, feeling and action, and how to transform them.
● Individual support & access to the recordings of meditations.
● Your commitment to daily homework practice (30-45min) for 8 weeks
Please note you can also undertake the MBSR course 1:1 in a personalized way. Contact me to discuss this option.
Mindfulness practices and exercises
Meditation
Meditation
Meditation
Yoga
Eating
Communication
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
– Henry Miller –
The Science Behind MBSR
History
MBSR is the most scientifically tested and well-established mindfulness training program. The MBSR program was developed by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979 at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Studies over 40 years have shown MBSR to benefit people in different areas and it has been studied extensively in the fields of medicine, psychology and neuroscience.
Engagement and the importance of practice
This course is highly experiential and the daily practice is perhaps the most important component. You wouldn’t expect to learn to surf by reading a book about surfboards and waves, and learning a mindfulness practice is no different than any other skill that involves both mind and body. Your body/mind is the most complex instrument in the universe. It takes time and practice to use it effectively and harmoniously.
Benefits
- Approach your life with more composure, energy, understanding and enthusiasm
- Increase your ability to relax
- Increase your sense of well-being and balance
- Increase your sense of connection, meaning and purpose
- Greater capacity to deal with stress, pain and life challenges
- Change habitual reactivity patterns.
- Improve your focus and resilience
- Cultivate self-awareness
- Decrease physical and psychological symptoms
- Improve emotion regulation, reduced stress, anxiety & depression
- Increase levels of attention and concentration
Book a free exploration call
Book a complimentary exploration call now to know more about the methods and practices used in the MBSR 8-week program, ask questions, and explore whether or not the program is right for you.
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