The Seniors Zoom Mindfulness Groups are designed to allow seniors to learn and practice mindfulness with their peers and explore how mindful presence can help to navigate the various ups and downs of aging wisely and with healthy engagement. The classes are specifically formatted for the needs of senior participants, incorporate discussion and support in a group atmosphere and help interested seniors to set up their own daily mindfulness practices.

MBSR is a once weekly, 8 week, group program developed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and associates at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1979. The curriculum is based on the growing areas of mind-body medicine and neuropsychology. Mindfulness can lead to alterations in brain functioning, help us react differently to stress and savor life more. Mindfulness meditation, psycho-education on regulation and physiology of the stress response will be provided by facilitators along with guided inquiry into present moment experience. The potential benefits and challenges of a daily mindfulness practice are also explored in a nonjudgmental group setting. The Zoom version will be ten weeks long, including the Orientation and four hour Silent Retreat after class 6.

The Mindful Women's Groups are an opportunity to learn about mindfulness and how we can bring mindful presence to our lives, to practice self-compassion and healthy boundaries with others, as well as improve our ability to cope with stress and regulate troubling thoughts and emotions. Explorations are facilitated in sacred feminine space where women can learn from each other in a nonjudgmental and vibrant community of diverse experience.

The Mindful Women's Groups are an opportunity to learn about mindfulness and how we can bring mindful presence to our lives, to practice self-compassion and healthy boundaries with others, as well as improve our ability to cope with stress and regulate troubling thoughts and emotions. Explorations are facilitated in sacred feminine space where women can learn from each other in a nonjudgmental and vibrant community of diverse experience.