Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

(PDV 67)

Mindfulness is a way of consciously working with the stressful challenges in our day-to-day lives. By cultivating awareness, we can develop the capacity to experience each moment, no matter how difficult or intense, with greater clarity, balance, and joyful participation.

Through mindfulness meditation, gentle mindful movement (yoga and qigong), selected readings, and group discussion, we gain access to powerful inner resources for learning, growing, relaxation, and healing, even in the midst of stress, pain, and illness. The program is modeled after the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, and was featured in the Bill Moyers television special, Healing and the Mind. Two decades of published scientific research indicates that the majority of people who complete this program report lasting improvements, including greater energy and enthusiasm for life, increased ability to relax, decreased physical and psychological symptoms of stress, reductions in pain levels, and improved self-esteem.

Schedule:
8 Thursdays, April 16 - June 4, 7:00 - 9:15 pm
Sunday, May 24, 9:30 am - 4:00 pm

Keith Urban, Meditation Teacher; Dancer; Choreographer

Keith Urban has been teaching mindfulness for more than thirty years. He has studied with preeminent teachers including Jon Kabat-Zinn (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) and Swami Satchidananda (Integral Yoga), and knows the joys and stresses of careers in both technology and in art.