Mindfulness - Stuarts Yoga
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What is MINDFULNESS?
What is Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction ?
As Jon Kabat-Zinn creator of MBSR explains: 'Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a well-defined and systematic patient-centered educational approach which uses relatively intensive training in mindfulness meditation as the core of a program to teach people how to take better care of themselves and live healthier and more adaptive lives. The prototype program was developed at the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.'
What we do
Who Can Benefit From MBSR?
UMass Medical School, Center for Mindfulness have proven MBSR complements treatment for:
Anxiety, Gastro-Intestinal Distress, Work, Family, and Financial Stress, Grief, Asthma, Headache
Cancer, Heart Disease, Chronic Illness and Pain, High Blood Pressure, Depression, Panic Attacks,
Eating Problems, PTSD, Fatigue, Skin Disorders, Fibromyalgia, Sleep Problems.
MBSR Course Structure
a) Group Pre-program Orientation Sessions
b) Eight-weekly classes 2.5 hours in duration
c) An all-day silent retreat during the sixth week of the program
d) Formal Mindfulness Meditation Methods:
Body Scan Meditation - a supine meditation
Gentle Hatha Yoga - practiced with mindful awareness of the body
Sitting Meditation - mindfulness of breath, body, feelings, thoughts, emotions,
and choiceless awareness
Walking Meditation
e) Informal Mindfulness Meditation Practices (mindfulness in everyday life):
Awareness of pleasant and unpleasant events
Awareness of breathing
Deliberate awareness of routine activities and events such as: eating, weather, driving
walking, awareness of interpersonal communications
f) Daily home assignments including a minimum of 45 minutes per day of formal mindfulness
practice and 5-15 minutes of informal practice, 6 days per week for the entire duration of the course.
Without thinking and talking
there is no obstacle to get in the way of our enjoyment of the present moment
Thich Nhat Hanh