A Program for Managing Stress
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Relaxation (MBSR) is designed to teach you how to work with stress and pain. This program can provide you with the tools to transform your relationship to pain while enhancing pleasure.
MBSR is modeled on the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., (featured on the Bill Moyers PBS special, Healing and the Mind.) The University of Massachusetts Medical Center began MBSR in l979 and has become the provider of a stress reduction program that is respected world-wide. This same Stress Reduction course is now offered in Los Angeles by the Institute for Self-Integration.
What is Mindfulness?
Being mindful is a means of quieting and calming the mind by paying careful attention to your moment-by-moment experiences in a wholly non-judgmental way. As you practice mind-fulness, you learn to gather up your inner resources in order to manage pain, illness and stress. This special form of attentiveness enables you to find new insights into life situations and, in turn, develop richer and more skillful responses to these events. Our lives are full of stress but distress is optional.
Mindfulness encourages deep relaxation, heightened awareness and clarity of thought. You are doing something for yourself that no one else can do for you.
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Instructor: Gloria Kamler, M.A.,
is a holistic educator and practitioner who has worked with pain and stress relief for 33 years. As the founder of the Institute for Self -Integration in Santa Monica, CA, she offers a range of holistic therapies including meditation and the Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Program.
Gloria has been teaching the MBSR program for the past 13 years in Los Angeles, California, and she continues to do so.
In recent years, she was an MBSR instructor in two randomized trials at UCLA; one for HIV positive patients and another with an elder population, investigating the neurobiological effects of the mindfulness program. At present she is a mindfulness meditation instructor at UCLA.
Gloria completed both the MBSR Professional Training and the MBSR Teacher Development Intensive. Additionally, she has trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn Ph.D., the founder of MBSR, and other staff members from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, where the program originates. She also has practiced meditation and yoga for more than two decades and is a long-time student of Shinzen Young, the founder of the Vipassana Support Institute.
Gloria earned a B.S. in education from the University of Michigan and an M.A. in guidance and counseling from Eastern Michigan University. Her dedication to living mindfully is an integral part of her professional and personal life. She is grateful to share her experience and understanding of mindfulness practice with others and sincerely hopes all of her work helps others lead more fulfilling lives.
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Eight-week MBSR courses Begin;
Monday evenings: June 22 - August 10, 2009
Tuesday mornings: June 23 - Aug 11, 2009
Meditation instruction for groups & individuals
Location: Santa Monica area
For more information and registration
Contact: Gloria Kamler
(310) 450-4541 or email: gkamler@verizon.net
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The Mindfulness Training Program
In a supportive environment, the program offers:
Eight 2 1/2 hour weekly meetings
One all-day retreat
Pre-program interview
CDs and handouts
The course consists of varied activities to cultivate mindful living. These include:
Meditation and relaxation
Easy stretching postures
Group discussion
Home support exercises
These activities can enhance your awareness and be
valuable sources of insight.
*** 26 hrs of CEU credit for MFTs & LCSWs authorized by
BBS Provider No. PCE2209
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