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.

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