Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

New Chesterfield Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction programme is starting on the 20th March till the 15th May for eight Monday evenings and one Saturday at The Friend's Meeting House, Ashgate Road.This is a nourishing course that teaches you through meditation practice ways to reduce stress, improve well-being and improve the quality of your life and live mindfully. For more information please contact Jill Savage at [email protected]

Yorkshire Mindfulness and Compassion Forum (YMCF) are running a masterclass with Dr Tamara Russell called "The Wandering Mind and Mindfulness" in York on the 5th November at Middlethorpe Hall. If you are interested and want more information then please e-mail me at [email protected] or if you would like to book your place then please e-mail [email protected] Dr. Tamara Russell will be sharing her pioneering work with us on the day.

Dr Tamara Russell | Mindfulness Centre of Excellence Dr Tamara Russell Dr. Russell works with individuals and organisations advising on how to use mindfulness techniques to optimise performance and improve

This is an amusing article by Ruby on her mindfulness silent retreat last year at Trigonos in August 2015. I was at the same retreat alongside Ruby and fellow participants and connected with my own experience, up's and down's, high's and low's in this beautiful part of the world. My senses were heightened and I can concur that a digestive biscuit and coffee became objects of pure bliss! I am guiding a day's silent retreat in Chesterfield on the 12th March as part of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction programme which offers participant's a chance to be with their own experience and pattern's of the mind for a day to deepen their own mindfulness practice.

Ruby Wax puts mind over chatter in the pursuit of mindfulness Ruby Wax has been open about her struggle with depression. Here she describes going on a retreat in Wales in pursuit of the elusive state of mindfulness.

I love this - a nourishing short New Year meditation from Melli for us to tap into our wisdom about what really matters.

A New Years Meditation On What Really Matters Most - Mrs. Mindfulness Happy Holidays! It’s such a potent time of year isn’t it? It’s a time of endings and beginnings as we close one year and begin a fresh new year. Many of us are thinking about new years resolutions and taking stock at this time, but how many of those typical resolutions are just ‘self’ improvementRea…

If you are interested in this nourishing mindfulness programme and would like more information then please contact me at [email protected]

The next Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Programme will be running in Chesterfield, Derbyshire at The Quaker Meeting House, 27 Ashgate Road, Chesterfield, S40 4AG from the 18th January to 14th March 2016, 7-9 p.m. The course takes place one evening a week for 2 hours over an 8 week period (no session on the 15th Feb due to half-term) and also includes a silent retreat on the 12th March. The course also includes course handouts, mindfulness meditation recordings.
This is a nourishing and life-enhancing course that can benefit everyone.
You will learn mindfulness techniques to be better able to deal with life's events and experiences with a greater ability to respond in a way which is beneficial rather than one which causes undue stress and disharmony.

You will be able to relate to the world more skilfully in your thoughts, emotions and behaviours to free you up from unhelpful habits and to be able to be more insightful and make wise choices for yourself.

Please get in touch with Jill Savage at [email protected] for more information about this truly life enhancing programme.

This is a great talk by Sara Lazar on the benefits of mindfulness from a neuroscience perspective.

How Meditation Can Reshape Our Brains: Sara Lazar at TEDxCambridge 2011 Neuroscientist Sara Lazar's amazing brain scans show meditation can actually change the size of key regions of our brain, improving our memory and making us ...

If you are interested in this nourishing mindfulness programme and would like some more information then please contact me at [email protected]

There is a new mindfulness course starting on the 18th January 2016 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire at The Friend's Meeting Place, 27 Ashgate Road, Chesterfield, S40 4AG. Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (M.B.S.R.) is a nourishing course for the general public starting on the 18th January - 14th March 2016. The course not only teaches you ways to reduce stress, but also to increase psychological well-being and improve the quality of your life.

The things that stress and challenge us may not change, but the way in which we deal with them can shift through mindfulness, so we can be truly present to what is going on in our inner and outer worlds, make wise choices for ourselves and gain fresh insight. .