Practiced daily, it can untangle tension, fight fatigue and even lower your blood pressure. It can lift your spirits and help you find inner peace. What's more, it costs nothing, has no side effects and doesn't require medical help. The "prescription" is meditation, an ancient practice that has become increasingly mainstream as clinical studies continue to confirm positive outcomes.

Trisha Stotler Insight Meditation Instructor

Research shows meditation can help to relieve many symptoms, such as pain, anxiety, stress, depression, as well as ease the fatigue and insomnia associated with many illnesses. Studies suggest meditation may also boost the immune system to help the body resist disease, and promote healing.

This class consists of six 90-minute sessions that will:

   *   Introduce you to the fundamentals of formal meditation practice,
   *   Provide you with an overview of the neuroscience of meditation, and
   *   Show you how to bring mindfulness into your everyday activities. 

Classes will be experiential and will include practical guidance in techniques you can begin using right away.
The number of participants will be limited to ten. To sign up, or request more information, please click here.

Our Instructor:  Trisha Stotler is an Insight Meditation instructor with an active practice in Northern Virginia.  She has been a student of meditation for over twenty years, and is on the Board of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. 

She has a keen interest in the mind-body relationship as it relates to anxiety, chronic pain and illness, depressionand trauma.  Trisha is a graduate of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher-Training Program led by Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of MBSR and the Stress Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.  Trisha also has completed a two-year certification with the Meditation Teacher Training Institute, and she leads classes and retreats of all levels in the DC Metro area.  Trisha lives in Vienna, VA, with her husband, three young kids and a menagerie of pets.