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Tentatively Starting in January 2025. Email [email protected] for questions and to sign up for limited seats.What is MBSR?
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a group-based program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn over 40 years ago at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center (UMASS). It is founded on ancient Eastern philosophies but is taught in a secular, or non-religious way. Since 1979, over 25,000 people have completed the UMASS program working with their own internal resources and abilities to respond more effectively to chronic and acute stress, pain, and illness. The systematic program teaches mindfulness through formal and informal meditation practices, gentle and simple movement practices, and group discussions. MBSR has been adopted around the world, being taught in many languages, and is the basis of much of the research on meditation as it relates to health and wellbeing.
Emerging research supports a number of health related benefits associated with practicing mindfulness exercises: improved focus/attention, body awareness, pain modulation, changes in perspective, emotional regulation and structural brain changes.
Details on the 8-week MBSR program
Group classes are held once per week for approximately 2.5 hours to learn and explore mindfulness concepts and share experiences from practicing during the week. Participants are provided with audio recordings and homework activities to practice daily on their own. An All Day Retreat is typically held after the 5th or 6th week.
See MBSRinEnglish.com (Marianne Pilgrim's website) for more details.
Orientation and 8 weekly 2.5 hour sessions with a 7.5 hour All-Day session.
Classes will be held Saturday mornings. Specific dates to TBD.
Tuition: Suggested $200 donation to Sky Creek Dharma Center. We encourage you to pay as much as you can afford.
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120 Three Oaks Court, Chico, CA, United States, California 95973
