Capital Region Wellness Center : Practitioners

Lenore Flynn has been presenting stress management classes, teaching mindfulness practice and speaking to groups in hospitals and wellness centers since 1993. She has a Masters Degree in Complementary Therapies. She completed an internship at the Stress Reduction and Relaxation Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in 1994 under the direction of Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn. Lenore is a Registered Nurse with over 30 years of nursing experience. She believes that mindfulness practice and meditation together with your own personal beliefs can create a path leading you to more peace, happiness and health. Lenore is personally committed to her own meditation and mindfulness practice; her own experiences incorporating these practices into her life as a woman, seeker, partner, and mother fill her teaching with warmth and humor.

Get more out of living.

Regain a feeling of control over your health and well-being.

Recognize and cultivate your own inner resources.

Learn to trust in your own experience.

Work within your own capabilities.

Learn the practice of mindfulness, moment-to-moment awareness. Being present to your life in this way can lead to deep realms of relaxation, calmness and insight. The techniques you will learn allow you to feel more in control, a feeling that has proven health benefits. Each of us possesses an inner store of invaluable resources that are available to help us handle difficult situations. Learn techniques that help you discover, develop and mobilize those resources. Facing a problem artfully, you can often use the pressure of the problem to move you through. Throughout your life, your experiences teach you valuable lessons. Through the techniques you will learn you will begin to trust your own experience as your teacher.

Research studies have shown meditation/stress management can reduce symptoms and improve outcomes for the following: weight loss, heart disease, anxiety disorders, psoriasis, cancer, infertility, chronic pain, fibromyalgia and hypertension.

Lenore is available for both private and group sessions. Private counseling sessions are $40. A comprehensive 8-week course is presented in a group setting meeting 2 hours one time per week; the next class runs on Mondays October 18-December 6, 2004 from 6:30-8:30 p.m.. Cost for the 8-week course is $250 per person and includes the course materials. No special equipment is needed.