STRESS REDUCTION PROGRAM

Stress Reduction Program

Mindfulness: Stress Reduction Program

Introduction

In 1979, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Massachusetts, practicing meditation and yoga teacher, conceived the idea of applying their knowledge in these disciplines for the treatment of Stress. Jon Kabat-Zinn, founding the Stress Reduction Clinic, one of the most innovative initiatives in the field of mind / body medicine in the U.S..

Since then, more than 17,000 people have benefited from this program and more than a thousand professionals have attended training courses, ranging well over 240 institutions that offer this program. In addition to patients with stress, ...