Meet Your Spirit Guides – Powerful Guided Meditation

• sleep disturbance & insomnia
• gastrointestinal distress
• fatigue
• job or family stress
• skin disorders
• high blood pressure
• stress factors in heart disease

When you’re mindful, you pay attention to what you’re experiencing right now. You’re simply aware of your experience — not needing to judge or change anything. You recognize the present moment just as it is.

When you practice mindfulness, you will often focus attention to things you usually ignore, for example:

MBSR is fully described in Dr. Kabat-Zinn’s book, . The Meditation for Health program is closely modeled on this original MBSR program.

The practice of mindfulness has developed most formally in the spiritual traditions of Asia, but mindfulness is present also in traditional practices of the Western religions (, , Islam). However, Meditation for Health is a secular medical program. We teach mindfulness as a basic awareness practice — a way of looking at things that can be shared by people of all faiths and philosophies.

Program Details:

Part One:

• Two private interviews before group sessions begin
• Five weekly, 3 hour group sessions (on a weekday)

Part Two:

• Four weekly, 3 hour group sessions (on a weekday)
• “The Day of Mindfulness” (a 6 1/2 hour group session on a Saturday)

All sessions are held at locations near Bloor & Spadina.

Between-session, telephone support is available, as needed.

Patients who complete the program are invited to attend follow-up meetings of meditation and discussion. These meet 3 times a year.

About Payment:

The medical services of the program are covered by OHIP if an insured patient is for medically necessary treatment.

As well, patients are charged a sign-up fee to pay for materials and program services that aren’t insured by OHIP. (Materials include a workbook, supplies, handouts & 6 recordings. Non-OHIP services include the participation of the program’s non-medical health professionals.)

• Part One fee for materials and non-OHIP services: $295
• Part Two fee for materials and non-OHIP services: $295

Is your health worth 60 minutes a day?

Your commitment is the key to MBSR. To benefit fully, you’ll need to practice MBSR at home, every day for 8 weeks (excepting those days you attend group sessions). We’ll show you how and give you self-help recordings to guide your home practice. We intend to support you fully, but no one else can do the actual practicing for you — are YOU ready?

Taught by:

. has taught medical programs of MBSR since 1997. She has participated in 18 training and educational events sponsored by the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts — beginning with 2 residential training programs under the direction of Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn. Dr. Sykes has personally practiced meditation and hatha yoga for over 25 years. She established Meditation for Health clinic in 1997. (…)

For more information:

Contact our program coordinator, . She’s usually in the office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays — or leave us a message anytime. We’ll send information packages to your doctor or other health professional, at your request.

Phone : (416) 413-9158

E-mail:

Address of our administration office : Meditation for Health Suite 509 – 720 Spadina Avenue Toronto, ON, M5S 2T9 Canada

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time…

— T.S. Eliot — Four Quartets