“As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter how ill or hopeless you may feel.” - Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
Thank you for visiting us, and for your interest in pursuing mindfulness in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia! Along with Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) workshops – our flagship service – we offer a variety of classes, workshops, and daylong retreats throughout the valley designed to help you reduce your stress and pain (emotional and physical), and discover your deepest self through the practice of mindfulness.
These classes are taught by Shell Fischer, an Insight Meditation teacher and MBSR-trained instructor who has been a student of mindfulness for the past two decades.You can learn more about Shell’s mindfulness studies background here.
Shell is also an award-winning fiction writer, editor and journalist who writes about mindfulness and yoga for national magazines, and edits fiction, as well as books about mindfulness. You can learn more about Shell’s writing and editing experience here.
Below please find a list of current mindfulness class offerings:
8-Week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workshops – Fall 2012
Sept. 2 – Oct. 21: Sundays, 9 – 11:30 a.m. at The Dharma Studio in Winchester, VA
Sept. 3 – Oct. 22: Mondays, 6:30 – 9 p.m.at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, VA
Saturday Daylong Retreats: July 28, Aug. 25, Sept. 22
Each of these retreats will be held from 10 a.m. – 5 p..m. Saturday at a lovely, private, wooded lodge on the Clarke Country/Frederick County border, with plenty of chairs, picnic tables, a big fireplace, and a walking trail down to the Opequon Creek.
Mindfulness Meditation Classes
July 11, Wed., 6:30-8:30 p.m.: “Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation” at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, VA
July 25, Wed., 6:30-8:30 p.m.: “Mindfulness in Nature” at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, VA
Sept. 20: Thurs., 6-7:30 p.m.: “Mindfulness in Nature” class at Blandy Experimental Farm/Virginia Arboretum in Boyce, VA
Every Tuesday 7-8:45 p.m., “Insight Meditation Group” in Stephens City, VA
Every First Saturday 10:30-11:45 a.m., “Mindfulness Meditation Class” at The Dharma Studio in Winchester, VA
Thursdays 6:30-8 p.m.: ”Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation,” Wellspring in Winchester (*Shell teaches free classes here about every three months. Dates will be posted.)
If you have any questions at all, please contact Shell Fischer at shell@mindfulvalley.com