Mindfulness is the practice of paying attention from moment to moment in a nonjudgmental way. This simple practice opens the door to self-healing and insight. It also can provide options for coping with the stress of illness and everyday life.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Class
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is an eight-week program offered by the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health. It introduces you to the practice of meditation, body awareness and mindful movement. This course is modeled after a program developed at the University of Massachusetts by Jon Kabat-Zinn. There are more than 250 similar programs nationwide.
Medical research has shown that mindfulness-based stress reduction is effective for the physical and emotional symptoms of general stress as well as stress due to illness, 如 癌症, 抑郁症, anxiety disorders, fibromyalgia, psoriasis and chronic pain. Benefit also has been seen in a wide range of other 心脏和血管, 胃肠, and psychological conditions.
The program includes:
- Private interview with an instructor
- Weekly two-and-a-half-hour 类 for eight weeks
- Guided mindfulness practice, group discussion and instruction
- 全天的撤退
- Audio files to guide home practice
- 工作簿
费用及注册
The fee for the class is $376 and an additional $19 for materials. A $25 discount is available to UCSF faculty, staff and students.
You will need a copy of Full Catastrophe Living (Revised and Updated Edition, 2013) by Jon Kabat-Zinn, 博士学位. For in-person 类, the book fee is $16.
You can register online at http://osher.UC San Francisco.edu/public-classes/mindfulness-based-stress-reduction-mbsr or call the center at (415) 353-7718.