Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
When:
October 5, 2016 @ 5:14 pm – 6:14 pm
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Where:
Center for Creative Change
205 Washington St SW
Blacksburg, VA 24060
USA
205 Washington St SW
Blacksburg, VA 24060
USA
Cost:
$395
Contact:
This 8 week workshop includes 8 Wednesday 2 hour classes at the Center for Creative Change in Blacksburg and a full day retreat on Saturday, November 12th at the Blue Ridge Center for Chinese Medicine.
The course is designed to transform your relationship with stress, improve your health, and increase enjoyment of life. “Mindfulness provides a simple but powerful route for getting ourselves unstuck, back into touch with our own wisdom and vitality.” Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
A variety of practices are taught including body scan, sitting and walking meditation, gentle yoga and qi gong, and mindfulness. Benefits can be seen for people struggling with chronic pain, caregiver burnout, anxiety or panic, worry, unhealthy guilt, interpersonal difficulties, grief or loss, job or family stress, cancer, headaches, sleep disturbance, depressionfatigue, heart disease and more!
Take control and dive in with willingness to change your life forward momentum!
Bridget Simmerman is a psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience. She has been practicing mindfulness meditation and hatha yoga for over 21 years, and has been teaching for the past 20 years.
Total cost of the program is $395 for the 8 weekly, two hour sessions and daylong retreat. Fee includes a breif evaluation interview, CDs, and handouts to support your practice.
Contact Bridget to register at (540) 961-5371 or bridgetsim@msn.com.
More information at www.bridgetsimmerman.com