8-Week Mindful Based Stress Reduction Program: Registration Open ~ Spaces Available

alive, calmer and renew your enthusiasm for life and work.
8-Week Course Begins on Wed. Sept. 25th - November 13th  7:00 - 9:30pm.Daylong: Saturday November 2nd  9:45am - 5pm 
Participants learn about habituated reactions to stress related anxieties and how to change their response:1. Increase your ability to cope with stressful situations, anxiety and improve self-esteem.
2. Bring awareness, thoughts, emotions and our nervous system into alignment.
3. Learn mind/body awareness techniques.
4. Develop a mindfulness meditation practice.
5. Cope better with illness, chronic pain and decrease physical & emotional/psychological symptoms.
LOCATION: 2041 Larkin Street in San Francisco at Vallejo on Russian Hill.Facilitated through the Mindfulness Care Center, recognized by San Francisco Magazine and Voted The Best Of 2018 in "Mindfulness and Meditation."
Areas of difficulty we may notice: Depression, Irritability, Worry/Grief , Panic, Chronic Pain, Stress, Frustration, Burnout, Anxiousness, Headaches/Migraines, Fatigue, High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Psoriasis, Job and/or Family Stress, Fibromyalgia, Sleep Disturbances, inability to deal with illness and other constant stressors.
The course is designed around the methods taught by Jon Kabat-Zinn and Rik Center's mindfulness background.
COURSE CONTENT: Experiential exercises, group discussions, mindfulness teachings and somatic-mindful awareness techniques.
COURSE INVESTMENT FEE $450: $400 class fee + 50.00 for class materials; Includes workbook, two mindfulness meditations to practice with and copy of the book “Full Catastrophe Living” by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Full and partial Scholarships available for approved applicants.
Facilitated by Rik Center Cofounder of the MCC/Mindfulness Care Center. Rik is a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Certified SEP -Somatic Experiencing Stress and Trauma Counselor/Practitioner and has served as a Buddhist/Interfaith Chaplain at San Francisco General and CPMC/Sutter Health Hospitals. He is a member of the USABP/United States Association Of Body Psychotherapy. Rik has a private practice working one-on-one with his clients that focuses on healing high levels of stress, unresolved traumatic anxiety and PTSD along with offering grief and spiritual counseling. Rik began a meditation practice in the late 80's and leads a weekly Tuesday Evening Meditation Class.
TESTIMONIAL:
I could not recommend this program enough - it helped me deal with life's challenges, helped me improve my relationships with immediate family, I learned to verbalize my emotions (that was a biggie!), got control over my social anxieties and even flying (the turbulence used to freak me out!).
It changed my relationship with time (I used to always hurry and always be late), and I came to terms with death (was not an intention of the program, but a discovery that showed itself after my second MBSR course) so that when my relatives were passing, I could handle it with grace and peace of mind, and was able to provide support to the deceased and their family instead of avoiding this subject altogether (the previous me would do that).
Overall, I took 2 MBSR courses throughout the years, and try to participate in day-longs every year (open to graduates). I am convinced this program is the best thing I've ever done for my well-being, and an investment that will be bringing the returns throughout the lifetime. 
Thank you, Rik!!
~Elena P.