Mindfulness and Meditation for Stress Reduction: Practice, Science and Research

Stress is a naturally occurring part of everyday life, but too much stress or an inability to manage stress may deplete you.  This course teaches you how to apply adapted mindfulness and meditation techniques to help you regulate body, breath, thoughts and emotions around stressful events. This course incorporates principles and findings of quantum physics, neuroscience and epigenetics, while exploring the ‘where’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ you exhibit stress. 

This course introduces you to mindfulness and meditation as empowering tools to reduce and manage stress. While stress and responding to stress is normal, the prolonged reactions to stress may create physical, emotional and mental discomfort which can lead to disease states and illness. 

In this course, explore the research and science behind stress in the physical body as well as the role of contemporary sciences – quantum physics, neuroplasticity and epigenetics – in creating solutions to manage stress. Explore techniques in working with discomfort in the body, or with difficult and challenging thoughts and emotions.  Explore tools and techniques that will empower you to reduce stress from your everyday life.