Alumni Programs
 Alumnus Sits are free and open to anyone who has ever completed an MBSR course at OCIM or elsewhere. These one-hour gatherings offer a great opportunity to maintain or renew your mindfulness practice.
| Date: |
The third Wednesday of the month unless other wise specified. 2008 dates: 4/16, 5/21, 6/18. Off in July. |
| Time: |
6:30-7:30 p.m. |
| Location: |
1701 Divisadero Street, Suite 150 at Sutter St. |
| Fee: |
FREE!! |
| Information: |
Call 415-353-7718 or e-mail |
| Instructors: |
Osher Center MBSR Instructors |
| Prerequisite: |
Completed previous MBSR class. |
MBSR and Early Stage HIV
Three linked studies of the effects of meditation based stress reduction and education in early HIV on physical health and psychological well-being.
- P01 I. Clinical Trial of MBSR and Education in Early HIV
This is a 330 person randomized controlled trial of mediation based stress reduction and education in early HIV that will assess the effects on psychological well being and disease course.
- P01 II. MBSR, Education, and Stress Arousal
This project will perform detailed studies in a subset of participants in the P01 trial of stress-related adaptive and maladaptive cognitive and affective mechanisms through which MBSR and education may influence neuroendocrine and autonomic nervous system activity.
- P01 III. MBSR, Education, and the Immune System
This project will perform detailed studies in a subset of participants in the P01 trial to determine the effects of MBSR and education on the immune system, including NK cell numbers and function, T cell activation, innate immune responses to HIV, cytokine production and expression of co-receptors for HIV cell entry (CCR5).
This is a randomized controlled trial to provide preliminary evidence of the efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) intervention to remediated side effects and side effect - related distress from antiretroviral therapy in HIV treatement.
See abstract
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound,
In fear of what my life and my children’s life may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water,
and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives
with forethought of grief.
I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
- Wendell Berry
Photo Credits: Wanda Lake, John Muir Trail, 8.28.05 at dawn, by MBSR alumni.
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Stress Reduction 
