Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
"You can do something for yourself to improve your own health and well-being."
Finding Greater Balance in Everyday Life:
Are stress, worry, overwhelm, chronic pain, or the pace of daily life affecting your well-being?
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an evidence-based, 8-week program that helps you develop practical skills for meeting life's challenges with greater awareness, resilience, and self-compassion.
Developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979, MBSR is considered the gold standard of mindfulness-based programs and has been extensively studied for its benefits in supporting physical and emotional well-being.
Who Is This Course For?
People come to MBSR for many different reasons. Some are feeling overwhelmed by the pace of daily life, stress, anxiety, or uncertainty. Others are navigating chronic pain, health concerns, caregiving responsibilities, life transitions, or simply a desire to be more present and engaged in their lives. No prior meditation experience is needed—just a willingness to explore mindfulness with curiosity and openness.
Benefits of MBSR:
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Greater ease, connection, and engagement
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Improved focus and greater mental clarity
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Emotional balance and regulation
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Improved ability to meet high-stress situations
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Improved general health and improved pain management
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Better sleep
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An improved sense of well-being
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Improved impulse control: responding to life with more intention, choice and wisdom
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Reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression and loneliness
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A greater ability to be kind to yourself
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Reduction in difficult physical and psychological symptoms
Meet Jessica, founder of The Mindful Journey, and learn more about the MBSR course:
MBSR: What to Expect
In a small, supportive and welcoming learning community, you'll explore a variety of mindfulness practices—including the body scan, sitting meditation, mindful movement, and informal mindfulness practices for everyday life. Your willingness to engage in the practices with curiosity and consistency is an important part of the learning process.
This course will involve learning to see yourself and the world around you in new ways, learning to work in new ways with your body, thoughts, feelings, and perceptions.
Some of the themes we explore in the MBSR course are: working with difficult emotions, understanding how perception influences our relationship to stressful events, mindful communication, the power of being present, and awareness of automatic, habitual, conditioned patterns.
The full course consists of:
- An Orientation (~2.5 hours)
- 8 weekly sessions, meeting 2.5 hours per week
- An All-Day retreat on a weekend
- Daily home practice
(~45 minutes each day which includes
recorded guided meditations and experiential practices.)
Additionally, please note the first class may go up to a half an hour longer and the last class may go up to an hour longer.
Full attendance for the duration of the course is highly recommended, as the content and experiential practice builds on itself as the course unfolds.
I want to enroll in MBSR. What are my next steps?
Come to orientation
Attend a brief, virtual, 1:1 Q&A with Jessica following orientation
Receive welcome email
Submit informed consent form
Make payment for the course
Show Up!
Fall MBSR Online Course
Orientation: Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 9:00-10:30am
Class Dates: Tuesdays, September 29 - November 17, 2026
Class Time: 9:00-11:30am
All Day Retreat: November 7, 9:30am - 4:30pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Exchange (Sliding Scale): $399| $475| $550
Repeat Students:$350
10% off Early Bird Discount: ends July 31.
* Because this is my first time teaching MBSR online, I am offering the course at a reduced rate. While I have prepared carefully, there may be a learning curve with the technology, and I appreciate your patience and flexibility as we navigate the online format together.
Not sure? Want to meet Jessica and ask some questions first? No problem!
Join me for a Free Online Information Session
Tuesday, July 14 | 9am
If you would like the support of a payment plan, please reach out to Jessica at themindfuljourney@hotmail.com.
If cost is a barrier, please don’t hesitate to reach out—I offer scholarships to help make this course more accessible.