Mindfulness Meditation Helps Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM)

Kimberly LaRue is teaching yoga and presenting a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction workshop at the 2011 Annual Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Cancer Therapies, held March 3-5 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in West Palm Beach, Florida.  The workshop will take place on Saturday, March 5, from 9:10-10:20.  This experiential workshop will teach you simple profound practices that can decrease suffering and bring you greater balance and peace, even in the midst of stress, pain and illness.  If you’re feeling any signs and symptoms of stress, such as living with an illness, chronic pain, cancer and any other medical emotional stressors, such as anxiety, this workshop is for you.

Much research over the last twenty years has documented psychological and physical health benefits of mindfulness training for stressed persons and for patients with various health conditions.  Kimberly is available for Mindfulness workshops and private coaching in mindfulness training.

Kimberly has participated in the 7-day professional training program under the direction of Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and Dr. Saki Santorelli.  Her program is modeled on the Stress Reduction Clinic at UMMS.  Kimberly has taught the eight-week course based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at an integrative cancer center.

The Journey, by Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice—
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do—
determined to save
the only life you could save.