MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS REDUCTION (MBSR)

This Spring, Sylvia Eugenia Ruiz (CMF, SEP), founder and executive director of Primordial, will participate as a guest teacher in the mindfulness-based stress reduction program (MBSR) alongside Noriko Morita Harth (Managing Director, University of California San Diego Center for Mindfulness, Certified MBSR Teacher and Certified MSC Teacher). 

UC San Diego Health’s Center for Mindfulness (CFM) is a multi-faceted program of professional training, education, research and outreach intended to further the practice and integration of mindfulness into all aspects of society. 

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an empirically supported 8-week psycho-educational group intervention that teaches mindfulness meditation as a health intervention. It was created by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979. MBSR offers participants the possibility to develop a different relationship to stress resulting from chronic physical and psychological illnesses. Research outcomes have demonstrated positive improvements in physical and psychological symptoms and changes in health attitudes and behaviors.