6 Week Program For Coping with Anxiety, Stress and Chronic Pain

with Dr Celeste, MD, RMYT And  Patricia Watts, MSW

What is Mindful Meditation

This workshop provides participants with a brief overview of the research on mindful meditation and its role in alleviating chronic emotional and physical pain. It provides participants with experiential training in meditation and exercises in mindfulness practice that equip individuals with tools to better handle stress in their own lives

at work, home or school. By guiding individuals to access the resources of their own heart consciousness. Dr Celeste believes participants gain insight, transformation and healing by learning to be mindful of their heart.

Cultivating Heart Consciousness to Reduces Stress and Anxiety 

Mindful Meditation is based on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s world famous program at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Being mindful allows one to access the wisdom of the heart and cultivate mind-body-life health.

Today, over 1,500 hospitals around the world and most of the major teaching hospitals in the greater Toronto area offer workshops based on Kabat-Zinn’s program; a program featured in many television shows including Healing and the Mindand the Mind; a PBS documentary by Bill Moyers, ABC News, CBC’s News Network, Dateline NBC, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Who Should Enroll

Heart Consciousness through Mindful Meditation is offered for chronic pain sufferers, their families and anyone, in fact, who experiences a high level of stress, anxiety and/or depression.              

Time & Location

First Session Start Date January 29, 2012 .

From 1pm to 4pm every Sunday for 6 weeks

Second Session Start Date: May 13, 2012

From 1pm to 4pm every Sunday for 6 weeks

* Item required: Yoga Mat

Location is at Centre For Heart Living - 58 Winchester Street Toronto 416 405 9478

Dr Celeste [MD, Coach and Yoga Teacher]

Dr CELESTE, MD is a medical doctor, who has trained in neurosurgery and psychiatry. She is also a certified yoga teacher, who has studied at the Vidya Institute. Inquiries into the nature of consciousness have been her lifelong passion. From her studies in eastern philosophy and western neuroscience and medicine, she has come to the conclusion that following the wisdom of the heart, which she refers to as “heart consciousness”, is the one sure way of living a fulfilled, vibrant life. She has worked to integrate the wisdom of the East with modern physics and medicine to promote optimum health by accessing heart consciousness through mindful meditation.

drceleste@centreforheartliving.com

About Patricia Watts [B.A. (Psych.), M.S.W., R.S.W.]

Patricia is a counsellor and immigration/refugee law social worker.  She holds a Masters degree in Social Work and a Bachelor degree in Psychology and History from York University.  She also has additional training in various approaches to counselling including mindfulness-based therapy and solution-focused therapy.  Patricia has worked with clients from many backgrounds including immigrants, refugees, members of the LGBT community, teens, young adults and seniors.   

Cost

This course is offered for $595 + hst

Materials are included. It is recommended that participants purchase Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book Full Catastrophe Living available at most bookstore. And Conversation with the Heart available at: ONLINE at The Heart Shop