In this information session, participants will learn how mindfulness meditation can reduce stress, anxiety and depression while supporting well being. The two and a half hour introductory class includes first hand experience of the body scan as developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, an opportunity to practice eating meditation and a video presentation of Bill Moyers' Healing from Within.  

Augusta Hopkins will share her experience with mindfulness and describe the 8-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course.  There will be ample opportunity to ask questions.

If you like the introductory session you will be able to SIGN UP for the full 8-week intensive in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) which begins in earnest the following week, January 30th running until March 19th.  The course will meet on Monday evenings from 6:30-9:00 in the David Brower Center at the Hub. The course includes a full daylong practice period on Sunday March 11th in the same location as well as reading material and audio files for personal practice.

Augusta Hopkins is an experienced, colorful, creative instructor, and is passionate about mindfulness practice.  She has been engaged in movement and meditation since 1977 and has practiced mindfulness meditation in Japan, Vietnam, Thailand and France.  Her practice is deeply rooted in the United States, specifically Northern California.

Augusta's MBSR training was with leading MBSR instructor and author Dr. Bob Stahl and she has been mentored by and has co-taught with Renee Burgard LCSW, senior Bay Area MBSR instructor for the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Apple Computer, Google, Inc. and Stanford University.  Augusta received lay ordination from Thich Nhat Hanh, her primary teacher, and is a lay monastic member of the Order of Interbeing.