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Registration for 6-Week Settled Within Course

Course begins September 18, 2024

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is an evidence-based 8-week course. The course invites participants to incorporate elements of mindfulness into everyday living, as well as offers instruction and practice in formal meditation and yoga.

This experiential learning provides opportunities for students to develop distress tolerance and new perspectives on life's challenges.

Students begin to compassionately train their attention to help cultivate self-awareness. This course offers an opportunity to work with the body's stress response system and learn to more skillfully navigate difficult sensations, emotions, and thoughts.

Numerous research studies have shown this program to be effective in helping those experiencing stress, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and other difficulties. Visit the Mindfulness Articles page to read about the research-based benefits of mindfulness practice.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD created this course in 1979 at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine. This course is offered in numerous clinics, medical centers, and hospitals around the world.

Erin teaches MBSR at the Davis Mindfulness Center in Layton, Utah.

Upcoming class information:

- Orientation Wednesday, September 18, 2024 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm

- Class dates are September 25 October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 November 6, and 13

- All-day silent retreat is Saturday, November 2, 2024

- Cost is $250

learning to BREATHE

Life can be so stressful! We all experience stress, disappointment, anxiety, anger, fear, and many other emotions. It’s totally normal to experience these emotions, but they don’t have to rule your life!

Mindfulness is a way of paying attention—on purpose—to whatever is

happening in the present moment, with curiosity and openness. It’s learning a new way of experiencing the world and interacting with the challenges and goodness that comes. Practicing mindfulness builds inner strentgh and helps calm our minds.

What will be taught?

During this 6-week course, students will learn to become mentally stronger and better able to handle the stresses in day-to-day lives. Students will learn how to meditate, listen to their bodies, navigate thoughts, surf the waves of our emotions, and develop healthy mental skills and habits.

Learning to BREATHE: 6 week mindfulness course

Erin has taught Learning to BREATHE through the Davis Mindfulness Center. She has taught 6th grade, junior high, and high school classes in the Davis School District.

About

The Learning to BREATHE curriculum was developed by Patricia C. Broderick, PhD. It was a delight to be trained by her in 2019. This course is currently used in many schools, colleges, and other settings around the country. It offers a fantastic introduction to mindfulness and meditation, and stems from the foundations of Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program.

This course is currently used in many schools around the country with early adolescents, teenagers, and young adults. Be an advocate in your city! After taking the course and discovering the benefits of mindfulness in your life, contact your local schools and advocate for mindfulness education. If you live in Utah, I'd love to connect you with people that can help bring mindfulness to your schools.