Reclaiming Your Power No Matter Life’s Challenges
A Course on Stress Management
Modified MBSR Course
for Those Living with Illness and Their Caregivers
If you are living with a life altering illness, or giving care for a loved one, you know that stress can be heightened, naturally.
You may be focused in the daily management. You may experience overwhelm and burnout.
Inviting you to pause for a few minutes and consider: Invitation for MBSR for Living with Illness & Caregiving
Take care of your mental home.
If you don’t understand and take care of your thoughts, emotions and feelings, your nervous system and biology of stress reactions, working with difficult emotions, communicating in supportive ways for yourself and others, attuning to and taking care of what is needed in the moment, are you truly taking care of yourself?
While I teach MBSR to wider audiences, I offer this particular course, in modified format, for those living with illnesses and their caregivers. It accommodates particular needs which are brought on by severe illnesses. We stay true to the curriculum and everything that is core about MBSR, and offer it in a way that is manageable to attend and sustain the learnings.
If you are living with a life changing illness, and/or caregiving for a loved one, we would love you to join us.
This course is taught by a highly experienced certified instructor with extensive teaching and personal practice, who is a caregiver and lives with illness. Learn more about your instructor, Yasemin Isler.
In this course, you will LEARN ABOUT AND PRACTICE
Body - Mind Awareness
Stress physiology and neurobiology, reactivity and mindful response to stressors
Awareness of perceptions, habits and patterns, and how to change them to support you moving forward
Working with Difficult Emotions
Managing Discomfort
Supporting and minimizing Caregiver Burnout
Easing Difficult Communications
Mindful Movement
Creating sustainable self-care
What you will get:
Full MBSR Curriculum taught over the course of 16 weeks (30 hours of live online, class participated instruction)
Additional education and practices for resilience building, based on mindful, compassionate, cognitive and behavioral management approaches, to support living with illness and caregiving
Course Manual.
Guided Practices.
2 x 15minute 1:1 interviews for personal support during the course.
Access to the teacher throughout the course for support with the course, outside the scheduled class hours, by appointment.
Passport to join the Monday practice circle during the duration of the course.
Age requirement: 17 and older.
Dates and Times
This course takes place over the course of 16 weeks vs the standard 8 weeks. We meet once a week, for 1.5 Hours. There will be partial day-long retreat in the middle of the course.
Dates: Tuesdays, February 8 - May 24, 2022
Times: 12 - 1:30pm EST USA | 9 - 10:30am PDT USA | Convert to your time zone
Cost to attend the course:
Standard cost: $650
Reduced cost: $450
Scholarship: $325. (please contact first)
Pay it Forward: $800
Thank you for paying within your means.
Registration (all 3 steps are required to complete the registration process):
1) Fill out the intake form.
2) Pay to secure your spot.
3) Schedule your 15min interview.
Gold standard for learning to practice mindfulness for everyday stressors, MBSR course was originally created by Jon Kabat Zinn at UMASS Medical Center pain clinic to give extra resources to patients with chronic pain and illnesses, and symptoms, which modern medicine could not alleviate. It is still the most widely used and researched curriculum.
