MBSR - Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program Begins: Orientation

stressful situations and less anxious.
Learn how to increase our ability to cope with stressful situations, improve self-esteem, feel more alive, calmer and renew your enthusiasm for life and work.
Stress Reduction Program Orientation: Wednesday, Sept. 12th 7:00pm - 9:00pm.8-Week Course Begins Wednesday's Sept. 19th thru Nov. 7th 7:00pm - 9:30pm.One Daylong Session: Saturday October 27th 9:45am - 5:00pm.Registration required to attend the 8-Week Program. Spaces still available.
Location: 2041 Larkin Street (between Vallejo & Broadway) on Russian Hill, facilitated through the Mindfulness Care Center. The Mindfulness Care Center was recognized by San Francisco Magazine and Voted The Best Of 2018 in "Mindfulness and Meditation."
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 techniques4. Develop a mindfulness meditation practice.5. Cope better with illness, chronic pain and decrease physical & emotional/psychological symptoms.
"Thinking of the past is depression, worrying about the future is anxiety, living in the present moment is peace." ~Lao Tzu.
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 and trauma background. Past participants of this group program report an increased ability to cope with stressful situations and less anxious. The Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course was featured on the Bill Moyers' special, "Healing And The Mind."
COURSE CONTENT:  Experiential exercises, group discussions, meditations to pracitce with, workbook exercises and somatic-mindful awareness teachings.COURSE 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.
Facilitator: Rik Center is Cofounder of the MCC/Mindfulness Care Center.  Rik is a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, SEP/Somatic Experiencing Stress and Trauma Counselor/Practitioner and has served as a Buddhist/Interfaith Chaplain at San Francisco General and CPMC 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 unresolved traumatic anxiety and PTSD along with offering grief and spiritual counseling. He began a meditation practice in the late 80's and leads a weekly ongoing Tuesday Evening Meditation Class.