Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program

Mind-Body Program for Greater Health, Relaxation, and Wholeness

Course Consists of:

• Eight weekly group sessions

• Mindful yoga and gentle stretching

• Guided Mindfulness Meditation Instruction

• Exercises to increase awareness in everyday life

• Group discussions

• One day long Saturday retreat

• Homework assignments

• Two audio CDs

When:

• Eight Tuesday evening sessions: April 25^th - June 13^th, 2006  from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm.

• Day of Mindfulness: Saturday June 10^th, 2006 from 9:15 am to 4:30 pm.

Where:

    Mindfulness Practice Center of Fairfax (in the Chapel of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax)

    2709 Hunter Mill Road, Oakton, VA 22124

Tuition:           $250.00 (If you have financial difficulties, please let us know)

Registration:  call (703) 978-1709 or email to: paulettecerutti@erols.com

Website:        www.mpcf.org

Instructor:     

    Paulette Cerutti L.P.C., L.M.F.T., Trained at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society,

    University of Massachusetts Medical School - A member of the Mindfulness Practice Center of Fairfax

Reasons to participate are…

• Anxiety

• Stress – work, life transitions, family

• Chronic pain or illness

• Fatigue

• High blood pressure

• Worries about the future

• GI distress

• Infertility

Many people completing the course report…

• Greater appreciation for life in the present moment

• Increase in ability to relax

• Increase in ability to cope when stressed

• More energy

• Greater ability to cope with chronic pain

• Some reduction in pain levels