Mindful Eating Workshop

Based on Intuitive Eating – A Revolutionary Program that Works by Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D., and Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D.
This five-hour workshop is designed to assist in learning strategies to overcome compulsive eating and weight issues, gain an awareness of your personal eating style and enhance mindful eating. Develop a greater connection to your body and its signals of hunger and fullness. Learn how to engage the senses and experience mindful eating during a lunchtime buffet, and understand how feelings and unmet needs contribute to emotional eating.
Instructors: Barbara Christie, M.S., R.D., and Diana Elwyn, M.S., MFT, nutrition therapist and therapist with 38 years combined expertise working with food, weight and body-image issues.


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Mindful Yoga


Increasing Flexibility, Relaxation, and JoyThis eight-week mindfullness-based yoga program is designed for bringing compassionate awareness to the body. Poses are taught in a very gentle manner coupled with the focus of mindfulness that pays close attention to what one is feeling physically and emotionally. A unique aspect of this program is group discussion, which explores how poses are integrated with conscious awareness.

Classes are taught by Gail Lewis C.M.T. Gail has been in private practice using a combination of stress reduction and bodywork since 1986. She has taught yoga and movement for several years. Gail's relationship to yoga and movement is gentle and direct and she is a sincere practitioner of mindfulness meditation. Gail is skilled in working with seniors and people with various medical conditions.


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Mindfullness-Based Stress Reduction

This program is designed to teach mind and body awareness techniques to help live with physical or physiological symptoms due to stress, pain, or illness. Class is based on the methods of Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center's Stress Reduction Program and was also featured on the Bill Moyer's special, "Healing and the Mind."
Mindfulness is the practice of cultivating non-judgmental awareness in day-to-day life. Mindfulness develops the potential to experience each moment, no matter how difficult or intense, with serenity and clarity. One can feel more alive and joyful and gain immediate access to powerful inner resources for healing.

This Program Can Help If You Have:
Medical Conditions

Restorative Sleep

You will learn ways to improve your sleep, energy and well-being without medication. Understand the natural cycles of the body and mind, and what disrupts our normal sleep and wake cycles. Learn strategies for improving sleep, energy and our innate healing, which comes from sufficient sleep and rest. The class will be educational and experiential. We will utilize meditation and visualization techniques that have been used for thousands of years in other cultures. This is a one-evening class.

Instructor: Bruce Eisendorf, M.D., family medicine physician at Santa Cruz Medical Foundation since 1992; teaching mindfulness classes since 1993 and leading support groups on health and wellness for 12 years.
For more information please call 831-479-6628

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T’ai Chi Chih® Joy Thru Movement

"T’ai Chi Chih® Joy Thru Movement" is one of a number of disciplines collectively known as Chi Gong, which strives to balance the energy flow of the body. This form differs from the traditional "t’ai chi chuan" in that it is easier to learn, and it is an internal,
meditative art, rather than a martial art. It consists of 20 simple, repetitive, non-
strenuous movements, which emphasize a soft flowing continuity of motion. This form can be practiced by people of all ages and physical ability. This is a nine-week series.
Instructor: Diane See is an accredited teacher of T’ai Chi Chih. She previously taught in San Francisco for 13 years.


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