Title: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Description: Mindfulness meditation has been practiced for thousands of years as a way of connecting more deeply with the present moment and oneself. A significant amount of research indicates that cultivating mindfulness is beneficial in coping with pain, anxiety, depression, and stress, and enhances immune responses and healing.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a secular 9-week course, which teaches how to practice mindfulness in a variety of ways, including in everyday life. Through a weekly two-hour class with mindfulness exercises and discussion, and daily meditation practice, participants will learn and practice a number of methods for fostering mindfulness. The course fee is $350 (negotiable with multiple registrations or low income) which includes CDs with guided meditation, handouts and a day-long retreat.

Libby Robinson has been practicing mindfulness meditation since 1979, was trained in MBSR by Jon Kabat-Zinn and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts, and has been teaching MBSR since 2003.

9-week course begins with a free introduction and orientation on January 16, 7-9 pm, at the Lotus Center, 2711 Carpenter Road, Ann Arbor. Registration for this talk is requested.

For full details and registration, contact Libby Robinson, Ph.D., MSW
Phone: 734.476.3070 • email: libbyrobinson7@gmail.com

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2012-01-16
End Time: 21:00