What is MBSR?

MBSR, or Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, is an eight-week mindfulness training program that was created by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979 at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He initially created it for chronically ill patients who were not responding well to traditional treatments, but it is now used for a wide variety of reasons by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.

What are the Benefits?

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) therapy is a meditation therapy, though originally designed for stress management, it is being used for treating a variety of illnesses such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, skin and immune disorders.

How does the program work?

The MBSR course employs mindfulness meditation to alleviate suffering associated with physical, psychosomatic and psychiatric disorders.  It constitutes of 2.5 hour/week, 8-weeks course with a 1-day retreat. Participants receive training in formal mindfulness meditation techniques involving simple stretches and postures. Each session starts with a mindfulness exercise that the participants have learned during the weekly sessions. The main exercises of the MBSR program are the body scan, gentle yoga, and sitting meditation. Through the course of the program, participants will practice one of these exercises every day. Each session focuses on one particular topic that is explored with specific exercises, as well as presentations from the teacher and in dialogue among the group participants. Some topics in an MBSR course are: mindful communication, working with difficult emotions and how perception influences our relationship to stressful events.

Learn how to pay attention on purpose, moment to moment, non-judgmentally. Mindfulness is about understanding and experiencing that our lives are unfolding now. It is about being able to choose our responses rather than unconsciously reacting to events in our lives.

*The course is an live online course via Zoom.

When does the course start and what is the schedule?

• Our next session of MBSR starts July 11, 2023.
• This 8-week virtual course includes a one-day virtual retreat. Each class meets once a week.
• Our schedule will be consecutive Tuesday evenings from 6:00pm to 8:30pm ET.

MBSR/Mindfulness Course: Tuesdays; ET

Offered Tuesdays from 6:00pm-8:30pm

• Orientation July 11^th
• July 18^th
• July 25^th
• August 1^st
• August 15^th
• August 22^nd
• August 29^th
• September 5^th

What is the cost of the 8-week course?

The price is $525 USD.  A certificate of completion provided.