| Retreats Participation in a retreat where you can make a conscientious, personal investment in mindfulness practice is a very precious gift to give yourself. It gives you an opportunity to indulge in the experience of a life with "wide margins" and invest in the experience of "just being" - free from the distractions and responsibilities of day to day life.Mindfulness Meditation is a way to quiet and calm the mind by paying nonjudgmental attention to your moment-to-moment experience. It helps restore and maintain a sense of personal balance and develop the skills to avoid emotional and physical depletion. This is important not only for persons who are facing stress-related conditions, but also for persons who want to avoid physical or professional burnout. We need to care for ourselves as we attend to the needs of those we serve. In fact, learning to balance the emotional demands of the healing relationship with other personal and professional pressures is central to the healer’s art and vital to professional health and longevity. Mindfulness Meditation is a 2,500-year-old practice that has been adapted for use in modern medicine by the seminal work of Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Through numerous research studies on his Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction model, mindfulness skills have been consistently documented as profoundly beneficial for the treatment and prevention of stress-related illnesses and conditions. Mindful Living Programs Retreats are provided primarily for medical professionals but are not exclusively for medical professionals. All persons are welcome to apply. Our retreats are experiential, direct, and will involve personal investment in guided and silent meditation, yoga and chi gong practice, group discussion and didactic instruction. The emphasis is on experiential. Through mindfulness meditation we expand and refine the sensitivity of individual awareness which is key to successful implementation of compassion and cognitive/behavioral skills in our own lives and in those of our patients. At this retreat you will develop direct familiarity with mindfulness meditation and learn ways to integrate mindfulness into your personal and professional life. You Will Learn:
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