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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: Stay-at-Home (MBSR-SH) Course Online
My traditional MBSR course, the one I have taught here for the past 12 years, has been adapted to the unique challenges and advantages of this staying-at-home era. It was devised for ease of access and relevance, availability and diversity of class-learning beyond the weekly MBSR sessions and support of long-term learning. Please know that this course has far less of the drudgery of typical online classes and more attentive guided personal mindfulness practices which are far less stressful than most online learning.
Below are the details of this training, MBSR-SH. Use the Contact Form to advise Brant of your interests and ask questions.
Program Structure:
- After reviewing the details of the course below complete the online MBSR Application . With the advice of your instructor complete the written application if you are unable to completed online. Then. . .
- Complete a brief conversation with Brant at some prearranged time. Reach out to him to arrange this.
- This course will be many hours of class time (1-1.5 hours one day per week) for 8 weeks. Plus. . .
- As part of your learning you are welcome to attend one of Brant’s relevant-level mindful yoga classes each week, the Shared Meditation Evenings, and some of Brant’s workshops. These all come with your registration and are an additional, optional way of practicing and learning. Details will be available after your registration.
- There will be a free MBSR Orientation on Thursday, April 8th; 6 until about 7pm for those interested in the course.
- For the course we will be meeting each Thursday, 6 until about 8pm.
- The sixth class will be and extended nearly 3 hour mini-silent-retreat class; 6 until as late as 9pm
- Please make a commitment to do home practice each day you are not in class during the Program; up to 45 minutes. Home practice is at the heart of learning in this course
- Tuition is $250 for those who have applied by the Orientation day. After that tuition is $320.
- Also, you will be Brant’s guest at a subsequent All-Day MBSR Retreat once we are able to resume in-person classes.
- Payment plans and partial scholarships can be arranged for those with limited means. Especially during this difficult time of corona virus, layoffs, and society change I will always find a way to admit you to class if you know this is, without-a-doubt, the right time. Contact Brant for details.
- There will be classroom learning and practice of: Gentle, adaptive mindful movement, Body scan meditation, Sitting meditation, Walking meditation, Mindful breathing practice, Group dialogue, Interpersonal learning
- If you are currently in active treatment with an acute condition consult with your doctor, therapist or psychotherapist to provide the MBSR instructor their written or emailed recommendation/referral for MBSR prior to the beginning of the course. You may be asked to give your doctor or psychotherapist permission to talk with your MBSR instructor in order to support you appropriately if you and your healthcare provider believe it would be helpful. Participants often do this to better include their healthcare providers as partners in the learning process.
- The MBSR training is held online this term. You will be provided a Zoom link for the full 8-week course once you have completed booking the course.
To enter the MBSR program you must 1) complete a brief conversation with the instructor 2) Complete an online MBSR Application 3) after these then arrange with the instructor for booking your reservation and payment of tuition.
Questions about MBSR? Learn more or contact Brant. MBSR Orientations are helpful though not required.
Dear Folks; We’ve been yearning to share time in-person and to be in the open air in a natural setting as expressed in the recent Mindfulness-Based Yoga in Nature post. Dozens of folks have completed the recent planning survey about how, when, and where we might share practice in nature.
Wow!, there was so much interest in these in-nature classes! Let’s do something about that. This session will be at Bagley Park.
The park department guidelines ask that we maintain appropriate social distance and, as appropriate, wear masks. I will ask that we situate at least 8 feet apart as we practice. The guidelines ask that we gather no more than ten of us in our session. As we begin our session I will ask that we check in to make sure we are all OK. with distance and masking, etc. so we can all be comfortable as we practice.
Please note that this is not an official Yoga Hillsboro ‘class’ as much as an information session of practice together. Also, following park guidelines there will be no tuition. You are welcome to contribute something if you wish. No expectations here and know that this is just a kindness to us all. Even though this is free please book your place to make sure I know who will be arriving.
You’ll need to bring your props, sunscreen and otherwise to our session. Please note that this will be ‘all-levels’ practice so do be sure to modify and pace yourself. I will be glad to offer advice if you ask.
We introduce a physically more lively practice including Inversions, backbends, rigorous flow. Mindfulness during practice emphasized.
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The general form of poses, simple flow, introduction to yoga breathing and the practices of mindfulness.
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Dear Folks; We’ve been yearning to share time in-person and to be in the open air in a natural setting as expressed in the recent Mindfulness-Based Yoga in Nature post. Dozens of folks have completed the recent planning survey about how, when, and where we might share practice in nature.
Wow!, there was so much interest in these in-nature classes! Let’s do something about that. This session will be at Rood Bridge Park. We will practice on the big lawn across the street east of the tennis courts. When you enter the park turn left via the traffic circle and the tennis courts will be on your left. The large lawn area on your right. Park nearby and come on up!
The park department guidelines ask that we maintain appropriate social distance and, as appropriate, wear masks. I will ask that we situate at least 8 feet apart as we practice. The guidelines ask that we gather no more than ten of us in our session. As we begin our session I will ask that we check in to make sure we are all OK with distance and masking, etc. so we can all be comfortable and feel safe as we practice.
Please note that this is not an official Yoga Hillsboro ‘class’ as much as an informal practice session shared. Also, following park guidelines there will be no tuition. You are welcome to contribute something if you wish. No expectations here at all and know that this is just a kindness to us all. Even though this is free please book your place to make sure I know who will be arriving.
You’ll need to bring your props, sunscreen and otherwise to our session. Please note that this will be ‘all-levels’ practice so do be sure to modify and pace yourself. I will be glad to offer advice if you ask.
The general form of poses, simple flow, introduction to yoga breathing and the practices of mindfulness. Less active than beginning-level yoga class.
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Breath is a fundamental element of our lives and yet happens by default. We have the ability to be aware of our breathing and to manage and control our breathing yet seldom do so unless we are victim to illness and forced to change breathing for therapeutic reasons. Many of us have taken breath for granted and even subjected ourselves to pathogenetic activities like smoking and breathing in or snorting drugs.
There is incredible evidence that we can work with our breath to enhance our state of ease, health and essential vitality. Yogis long ago attended to breath work with a variety practices grouped under the methodologies termed pranayama (working with life’s energy). Let’s go beyond that with contemporary methods and science to guide us in some simple practices.
Let’s share this series over two session, two consecutive Monday evenings, to practice a bit and then do some homework to see how this might be helpful for us. After all this is an era with a pandemic that threatens our ability to breathe. Perhaps this will be helpful and in this series I will provide research evidence that shows it may well be so!
I will follow the superb recent book about breathing, Breath, by investigative journalist James Nestor who practiced many breathing methodologies over a decade as he researched his book and interview experts all over the world. Here is a video presentation by him about the topic.
Much Love — Brant
A safe and friendly introduction to yoga, appropriate for those wanting to try an accessible form of yoga or for those who have had injuries in the past. We will practice movements that teach yoga alignment in ways that are available to most everyone. We will practice relaxation as well as develop strength and flexibility. Easy and modified yoga poses will be explored. Your physician should release you for general physical activity.
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We introduce a physically more lively practice including Inversions, backbends, rigorous flow. Mindfulness during practice emphasized.
Register anytime through Yoga Hillsboro: Registration, costs, and other details and then Book Online