 Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Summer Cycle of MBSR classes nears completion / Fall Cycle Begins in Oct.
The Summer cycle of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) classes is nearing completion. What a rich and memorable experience this has been for all of us! A warm sense of community, transformation, and possibility is evident among the dedicated and heartful practitioners who have learned, practiced and incorporated mindfulness into their lives! The upcoming Fall series of MBSR classes is now filling up, with a few spaces left in the Monday evening class (6-8:30 PM) which begins on Oct. 10, and spaces also available in the Tuesday morning class (9:30 - noon) which begins Oct. 11. To enroll in either class, please click here to e-mail Madeline Ebelini, or call 239-390-1113. MBSR will not be offered again until Jan 2, 2012. |
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Madeline Ebelini Joins eMindful
Leads Free Online Mindfulness Practice Thursday Mornings
Madeline Ebelini, MATP, RYT of Integrative Mindfulness has joined eMindful.com , an innovative company at the forefront of mindfulness research and the delivery of live, interactive, mind-body wellness curriculums online. eMindful provides a free 45 minute online guided mindfulness practice every morning at 8:00 AM EST. Madeline will lead the practice on Thursday mornings. The practices are recorded, so if you can't log in at 8AM for the live version, you can access the practice at a later time that's more convenient. To login to the free practice, click here and bookmark this page for easy access. |
Important Ally in Breast Cancer Treatment 
Studies show Significant Benefits of MBSR
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and many of us know the substantial health benefits of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for a wide variety of health conditions. As one of our MBSR graduates stated recently, "Mindfulness is in!" It certainly is if you look at the astounding growth in the number of medical studies involving mindfulness over the past few years. This includes several important studies showing MBSR's specific benefits for women who are undergoing, or who have undergone, treatment for breast cancer. Read more
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More Hospitals Providing Complementary & Alternative Health Services
New Study Shows Patient Demand and
Clinical Effectiveness the Reason
Hospitals across the nation are responding to patient demand and integrating complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services with the conventional services they normally provide, according to the results of a new survey just released by Health Forum, a subsidiary of the American Hospital Association (AHA) and Samueli Institute, a non-profit research organization that investigates healing oriented practices. The survey shows that more than 42 percent of responding hospitals indicated they offer one or more CAM therapies, up from 37 percent in 2007.
Dr. Adam Perlman, Executive Director of Duke Integrative Medicine, commented:
"We were heartened--and not surprised--to read the findings of this study. More and more, we see our patients asking for the very best medicine-both scientific conventional treatment and evidence-based complementary therapies. Duke Integrative Medicine is leading this national effort to responsibly incorporate Complementary and Alternative Medicine into the comprehensive care of every patient."
According to the survey, 85 percent of responding hospitals indicated patient demand as the primary rationale in offering CAM services and 70 percent of survey respondents stated clinical effectiveness as their top reason. Read the full survey here.
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MBSR Graduates: Please take this Survey 
Are you interested in continuing practice sessions?
Several students now completing the summer cycle of MBSR have expressed an interest in continuing guided practice sessions. If you are completing the 8-week MBSR course this week, please click on the link below and answer the 6 questions in this survey in order to best gauge interest, day, and time preferences:
MBSR Grads Click Here to Take Survey!
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 Art and Soul Workshop
Art, Mind and Movement Oct. 22nd
On Saturday, October 22nd delve into the inspirational realms of your creative mind in this three-hour workshop led by artist and art therapist Pam Malafronte, M.Ed., of Lotus-Heart Workshops, and Madeline Ebelini, M.A., RYT, of Integrative Mindfulness. We'll prepare the "field" for our seeds of inspiration to take root through mindfulness practices of guided meditation and gentle movement. Then we'll engage in hands on therapeutic art. Attune to the subtle energies of your mind and body and give them expression through symbol, shape, pattern, and color. Register here. |
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Keep it Going & Take it to the Next Level!
MBSR graduate Deborah Lee, PhD, RN, is an Integrative Health Coach, now completing her certification after intensive training through Duke Integrative Medicine. In fact, Duke values Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) so highly it requires all candidates for health coaching certification to complete an MBSR course. This is how we found Debbie! She is offering a special health coaching package to current and former Integrative Mindfulness students who want personal support in maintaining their new mindfulness practice and/or would like to address other issues impacting their health and well-being. An integrative health coach works with you to identify what it is you want for a healthy and satisfying life, helps you develop goals and action steps to actualize your vision, and provides information, support, motivation and accountability to help you get there. Debbie is offering a 9 session package that covers 3 to 4 months for $299. Prices will increase after the first of the year so take the opportunity now to make your mindfulness practice a long-term, sustainable part of your life. Click here to visit the website of Better Choices Health Coaching or click here to send an e-mail to Debbie. |
New Video: Author Daniel Goleman
Meditation is Attentional Retraining
What is meditation really? Daniel Goleman, author of dozens of books including Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership is one of my favorite authors, scientists, and speakers on the subject of meditation and how it enables us to access the most valuable aspects of our human nature. I came across this short (4 minute) video in which he de-mystifies the ancient healing practice of meditation and illustrates the many ways in which meditation holds promise for improving the quality of our lives and health in our over-stressed modern world.
Click on the image below to watch the video.
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