WHY MBSR?
Are you interested in mindfulness and its potential for enhancing health and well-being? Are you under stress? Are you struggling with chronic conditions such as chronic pain, depression, and anxiety? Are you feeling as if life is too much? Or do you simply want to live a fuller life with greater balance?
The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course is a great place to start, or continue, your journey into mindfulness. MBSR helps you learn what mindfulness is with enough time and practice to allow you to integrate it into your life with hands-on practices that help you make mindfulness your own.
WHAT TO EXPECT
This 8-week course includes:
- Learning about stress reactivity and how mindfulness helps with stress
- Learning how to apply mindfulness to everyday situations like communication
- Guided instruction in mindfulness meditation practices
- Body awareness practices including the body scan and gentle mindful movement
- Group dialogue and small group exercises
- A 70-page workbook with short readings, a guide to the course, and resources to support your ongoing investigation of mindfulness
- Eight 2.5 hour classroom sessions plus a 7-hour weekend retreat.
To learn more about whether the time is right for you to register for this course, please see What Are Our Classes Like? in the FAQs, from Executive Director Tim Burnett.
More about MBSR
Decades of research show that MBSR reduces chronic pain and boosts the immune system; addresses painful mental states like depression and anxiety; minimizes emotional reactivity and promotes well-being; increases flexible attention and sharpens mental focus; and actually thickens grey matter in the areas of empathy and problem-solving. Happiness can be a delightful by-product.
This course applicable to everything. Just the knowledge that I can approach life with curiosity and openness helps tremendously. Little by little, I am realizing that my choices are not always as limited as I think they are, and I am learning to relax and let things go.
Wondering what this class is like? You can also sign up for a FREE 90 minute introduction to this curriculum:
SCHEDULE
Wednesday, August 9 – October 4*, 2023
6 – 8:30pm PST
All-Day Retreat: Sunday, September 17, 9am-4pm PST
*No class September 27
TEACHER
LOCATION
Offered Live Online. Zoom link will be sent to you by email once you register.
COST
Choose what’s right for you on our sliding scale: $370 – $615
- Scholarships – Limited scholarships available. No need to apply; just choose scholarship tuition during registration.
- Payment Plans – No interest, 4 month payment plan option is available during registration.
CONTINUING ED FOR EDUCATORS
Up to 26 Clock Hours are available for eligible Washington State (K-12) teachers, administrators, and educational staff associates who take this course. Please check this page to confirm eligibility for clock hours. Mindfulness Northwest is an approved provider through Washington State OSPI.
Wondering what this class is like? You can also sign up for a FREE 90 minute introduction to this curriculum:
