February 2025: In Person Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in Rockhampton!
Next Course Starts Saturday the 1st of February!!
Human: Handle with Compassion!
Do you wish that you had been born with an instruction manual for your mind? Are you curious about mindfulness and how it could help you to improve your life? Have you always wanted to learn how to meditate? If your answer is yes: Now you have the opportunity!
Join Dr Lyn McCormack as she facilitates Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) training in Rockhampton, October 2024.
What is MBSR?
MBSR is an eight-week, evidence-based program that combines mindfulness meditation and gentle movement.
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Where did it come from?
MBSR was originally created by Jon-Kabat Zinn in the late 70s, to help individuals learn how to reduce stress, chronic pain, and improve mental and physical well-being.
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How is it structured?
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a structured eight-week evidence-based program that combines mindfulness meditation and gentle movement practices.
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Is it religious?
Although MBSR has Buddhist roots, it has been specifically developed as a non-religious mindfulness-based program that is accessible to all.
How does it work?
The simple fact is that you cannot be mindful and mindless at the same time! Despite the widespread appeal of “multi-tasking” the truth is that your mind can only ever be present and mindful or distracted, on automatic pilot and mindless.
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When you learn the skills of mindfulness you learn how to flick the switch of awareness that gives you the choice: mindful director of your life or mindless slave to your habits? When you learn how to be present with mindfulness: you get to make a choice.
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When you gain mindfulness skills you develop the capacity to let go of harmful habits that would otherwise lead to stress, anxiety, depression and the maintenance of chronic pain.
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When you learn how to mindfully place yourself in the driver’s seat of your mind; you learn how to create a vital and vibrant life instead of mindlessly enabling an automatic and potentially unhealthy one.
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As Best-Selling Author and Spiritual Teacher Eckart Tolle has so rightly said: “The present moment is all we have”.
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And in those who use food to improve their state of mind: when you apply mindfulness skills to your eating behaviour you can also learn how to undermine unhealthy over, emotional and binge eating habits.
Instructor
Dr Lyn McCormack is your MBSR Instructor. Dr Lyn is a local dietitian and has been a Rockhampton local for the last 11 years. She undertook her MBSR training with the Mindfulness Training Institute of Australia (MTIA). MTIA is affiliated with The Australian Centre for Mindfulness and Compassion: Open Ground, which has been officially endorsed by Jon Kabbat-Zinn
Dr Lyn McCormack
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Dr Lyn cares deeply about helping her clients navigate the confusion around weight management. She holds the title of Dr because she completed a PhD program that investigated the relationship between an individual’s predisposition to eat uncontrollably and their capacity to change their behaviour. www.drlynmccormack.com
What does it involve?
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An initial phone interview, and ongoing individual support from your facilitator
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A 2.5 hour class, over eight weeks, plus a one day retreat (This will be held at Body n Soul Yoga Studio).
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Mindfulness meditation and body awareness training.
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An exploration of your own unhelpful or unhealthy habitual patterns and how to change them.
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Connection and discussion with like-minded others.
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The scientific and physiologic rationale behind the practice
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Access to an audio app for practice and a course handbook
Body n Soul Yoga Studio
Saturday Mornings
8 Saturday Mornings. Starting the 1st of February until the 29th of March: from 10:30 - 1:00pm. Place: Body n Soul Yoga Studio, 13 Murray Street, Wandal, Rockhampton. Day of Meditation Sunday the 16th of March from 9:00am - 4:00pm.
