Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an intensive eight-week course designed to transform your relationship with stress, improve your health, and increase enjoyment of life.

“Mindfulness provides a simple but powerful route for getting ourselves unstuck, back into touch with our own wisdom and vitality. It is a way to take charge of the direction and quality of our lives, including our relationships within the family, our relationship to work and to the larger world and planet, and most fundamentally, our relationship with ourselves as a person.” ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.

Course Format

The MBSR program consists of eight weekly classes and one all-day class (held on a Saturday). Classes include: - Individual interview with each class participant – Mindfulness meditation practices

- Gentle stretching and simple yoga – Interactive exercises to elicit skills and qualities

of mindfulness – Readings, logs, and CD recordings to support

each aspect of the participantʼs home practice

When

The classes will be 2 1/2 hours long and will meet on Tuesdays from 6-8:30 pm, with the first class being on September 20, 2011, and the last being on November 8, 2011. The all- day class/retreat will take place between classes 6 and 7.

Where

Beautiful private downtown space in West Palm Beach

Costs

The fee for this eight-week MBSR course is $450 ($400, if paid in full by September 13, 2011). Credit cards accepted for an additional fee. It is our intention to keep the program accessible to anyone who could benefit. Flexible payment plans can be arranged, and discounts are available according to need.

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Space is limited to an intimate 6-8 participants

“It brought a great deal of insight into how I handle things” – John B

“Mindfulness allows me to make choices instead of reacting” – Lisa M

Kimberly LaRue, Mindfulness Coach, is a compassionate multi-faceted healer, teacher and speaker who applies the skills acquired over 30 years to facilitate personal healing and wholeness. Her passion is to introduce others to the innate wisdom of the body by fostering awareness; clearing embedded physical, energetic and mental patterns and imparting techniques and practices that expand mind/body integration. The primary modalities of Kimberlyʼs work are MBSR, Yoga, CranioSacral (CST) and Massage Therapy in conjunction with with Hypnotherapy and Guided Visualization.

Having completed intensive professional instruction in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) with senior faculty at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, including the Practicum in MBSR, and MBSR in Mind-Body Medicine with Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Kimberly is a daily practitioner of mindfulness meditation and yoga. She has experienced the benefits of mindfulness in her own life, and witnessed remarkable transformations in her MBSR graduates.

For more information and to register:
Ph: (561) 714-6131
E: Kimberly@ShadeTreeYoga.com

Self Liberate

Join Kimberly LaRue and Gus Castellanos, your teacher-guides, for the complimentary November Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) retreat to be held in Jupiter, FL. Saturday, November 13 10 a.m. -3 p.m. Four Medicine Jupiter, Fl Please RSVP by 7 P. M. Thursday, November 11.  aummm@mac.com As always, all experience levels are welcomed. Learn how to connect with your thoughts, feelings and body sensations rather than to react or suppress them.  In the spirit of  Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, remember  that there is more right with you than wrong with you.   Bringing awareness to the moment turns an ordinary life into an extraordinary life. Please RSVP to Kimberly at aummm@mac.com by 7p.m. Thursday, November 11.  Details to follow. Wondering if this will really help you?  Here’s what the 8 week MBSR class had to say, “The ratings and comments were overwhelmingly positive! …  100% of the respondents felt that they now have tools to better control the stress in their lives! Well done!! That is truly a significant accomplishment.”

A couple of weeks ago after a stressful summer of house hunting, I decided I would go on retreat to Padma Samye Ling Retreat Center and Monastery (Inconceivable Lotus Land) which is located in Delaware County in upstate New York. Set near the top of a mountain in the western region of the Catskill mountains, the outstanding facilities are contained within five hundred acres of forests, meadows, and natural springs. This is the first time I went to the Shedra retreat which means “place of learning.” It has been 3 years since I have been back to the land. I used to go frequently when I lived in Chicago. It was easy to drive up with my friend Dawn and there were times we would drive up 6 times in a year!