We offer an 8 week course combining Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) which use meditation and gentle movements to cultivate awareness, leading to many health benefits.
It is a secular approach, and is practiced by people with different faiths or no faith at all. MBSR is based on over two decades of international scientific research and has been completed by well over 20,000 people in the United States alone. The BBC say MBSR has 'a proven positive effect on several clinical and non clinical problems'.
Benefits of the course may include:
People participate for reasons as diverse as...
Contact us on shamash@learnmindfulness.co.uk or phone 07903 343 893 for a free conversation and the latest dates and prices. Some concessions are available.
You may be wondering, what is mindfulness? It can be defined as paying attention, moment by moment, non-judgementally, and everyone can do it. If you can breathe, you can practice mindfulness! Mindfulness helps to allow each moment to be just as it is. Through this allowing awareness, a transformation takes place that is both healing and nourishing. With these techniques a person can observe one's reactions to life stressors and meet it in a different way. This is stress reduction through mindfulness.
The video below is a talk and guided meditation by the founder of MBSR, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, to employees at Google in the United States. It's a long video, but worth watching if you want to know what mindfulness and MBSR are all about. Kabat-Zinn is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Our courses are either in Central London or in the vicinity of Hampton Hill. Surrounding areas include Hampton, Teddington, Strawberry Hill, Fulwell, Waldegrave, Twickenham, Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Whitton, Hounslow, Marble Hill, Richmond, East Sheen, Ham, Kingston, New Malden, Thames Ditton, Hampton Court, West Molesey, Sunbury, Feltham, Bedfont, Ashford |
Mindfulness Meditation in London - MBSR |