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8-week course with Quentin
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
An 8-week course that brings meditation and gentle yoga together, based on the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD.
Course at a glance
- Next course: dates to be announced
- Format: a weekly group session of 2½ hours, plus a 1-day retreat
- Home practice: about 30–40 minutes, six days a week, with audio tracks supplied
- Includes: group sessions, the day retreat, home practice mp3 tracks and a course book
- Teacher: Quentin Albertsen, qualified MBSR teacher
Quentin speaks with everyone enrolling to discuss any questions or special needs.
About the course
The 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course brings meditation and yoga together. Mindfulness is a skill, and like any skill it needs to be practised — so as well as the weekly sessions, each participant is invited to do about 30–40 minutes of home practice, six days a week, following the audio tracks supplied.
The main mindfulness practices are a body scan, gentle yoga and sitting meditation (in a chair or on a cushion). The practices are not about emptying the mind of thoughts or transcending ordinary life, or even trying to relax — although relaxation may result. Rather, by observing what is happening in our bodies and minds in a non-judgemental way, we can become present to our lives as they are.
Quentin completed his training with the Mindfulness Training Institute Australasia (MTIA), under the supervision of Timothea Goddard, an accredited MBSR teacher, psychotherapist and workplace trainer.
What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness shines the light of awareness on all aspects of our lives, giving us more choice and greater control over our actions. The various mindfulness practices are tools which, when applied, provide insight — so that perceived problems may not have changed, but our relationship to them has. Ultimately we are developing discriminating wisdom: noticing for ourselves the ways of being that create suffering, and the ways of being that lead to happiness.
Benefits of mindfulness
Research shows that the mindfulness practices of MBSR are effective in helping people deal with stress and stress-related illnesses such as insomnia, high blood pressure and headaches. Mindfulness has also been shown to be particularly helpful in managing anxiety, depression and chronic pain. Other benefits may be:
- Increased health and wellbeing
- Improved relationships
- Increased creativity, concentration and resilience
- A sense of interconnectedness with all of life
The present, whenever it is recognised and honoured, reveals a very special, indeed magical power: it is the only time that any of us ever has.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Practice recordings
The MBSR practice recordings — body scans, sitting meditations, mindful yoga and more — are free in our audio library.
Learn more: watch a video on mindfulness · research on MBSR
About Quentin
Quentin is a qualified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher and a registered senior teacher with Yoga Australia. A student of ShantiMayi, he has completed many retreats including several 10-day Vipassana silent retreats, and has been involved in training other yoga teachers.
I cannot recommend Quentin Albertsen’s course and approach to teaching highly enough. From practising and teaching yoga and meditation for over 20 years, he leads by example, and provides wisdom, versus just knowledge and information.
Fiona Maron, Human Resource Management Consultant (November 2017)