Have you been a participant in an MBSR program?

Join us via Zoom for this monthly practice group led by members MBSR Teachers Collaborative of Greater New York. Get support in maintaining or deepening your mindfulness practice and explore opportunities to cultivate mindfulness in everyday life. Re-connect with friends and meet others who are bringing these practices into their lives. Themes change every month, and teachers rotate.

Dates: Every 3rd Sunday of the Month, from 5:30 to 7:30pm.

This class is offered by donation to support the New York Insight Meditation Center.
Suggested donation is $20, and no one is turned away.
https://www.nyimc.org/donate/

‘Every morning a new arrival
Welcome and entertain them all’
~ Rumi

This refresher will explore how we learn, and it is a learned process, to ‘welcome them all.’
Easy to do with the pleasant things in our Life, but let’s explore how we meet the challenges
using the tools of mindfulness.

Teacher: Bernice Todres

Bernice Todres MA LFABI has been teaching MBSR for close to 40 years. Her first teacher was Jon Kabat Zinn and he has remained her primary teacher. Bernice has offered MBSR at 3 hospitals in Massachusetts in the 20 years she lived there. Now, in New York she has taught at Sloan Kettering and currently teaches Veterans in Pain Management at the VA hospital in Manhattan.

Her volunteer work has been teaching older adults at Senior Centers primarily on Cape Cod from Falmouth to Provincetown and more recently, to older adults at the JCC here on the Upper West Side.