Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
is an 8-week course Designed to teach participants how to integrate mindfulness practices into their everyday lives.
MBSR has been taught around the world for over 40 years and is the most extensively researched mindfulness program. It combines modern day science, physiology and psychology with ancient wisdom practices to support us in working with life’s challenges (personal, professional, physical, and psychological).
In this training, you will learn to access and cultivate your awareness, your inner wisdom, and compassion.
Possible Benefits Include:
Change our relationship to stress
Learn to respond versus react
Notice our impulses
Find an inner calm regardless of circumstances
Increase capacity for compassion, gratitude, and joy
Methods to regulate big emotions
Increase ability to focus
Improve self-awareness
Powerful methods to enhance quality of life
On the SCIENCE of Mindfulness:
https://www.openground.com.au/mindfulness/science
What to expect:
2.5 hour classes, once per week, for 8 weeks
One day-long session
Recorded guided practices to support your home practice
A home practice packet
Guidance in cultivating awareness, acceptance, and compassion of our own inner states
Next Class Offering:
September 7th-October 26th
Thursdays
5:30-8:00pm PST
Orientation/Q&A Thursday,
August 31st 6pm
Day Long: Saturday October 7th
7:30am-1:30pmPST
Online/Zoom
Sliding scale: $50 -$350
No one turned away for lack of funds
To begin the registration process, please fill out this form: MBSR Class
For inquiries: jillteaching@gmail.com
What participants say:
•I am able to notice my breath as I am going through my day. I feel more present and I feel as if my days have slowed down significantly. I don't feel like I am going on auto-pilot as much as before. I am more compassionate towards myself, I have not been judging myself as much as I was in the past.
•What I have learned in class has helped me be kinder to myself in my moments of need. In the past, I would often disregard any signs my body and mind were telling me if I thought I had more important things to do. Mindfulness has given me the opportunity to show myself more compassion when I notice changes in how I am feeling, both emotionally and physically.
•It's helped me be more present with my partner.
•It's helped me stay (more) grounded, particularly as things have gotten more stressful.
•Mindfulness helps me get more in touch with what is going on in my body.
•What I learned in class helped me become more regulated and centered, and gave me some more tools to deal with my anxiety (which has definitely been exacerbated by the pandemic but was already a struggle for me)… It makes me feel more calm and grounded.
•It helped me be mindful of how I was communicating with others and to be more compassionate.
•It helps me release tension in my body.