“Between stimulus and response is our greatest power — the freedom to choose”
- Stephen R. Covey, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”
MY GOAL
To teach you, through intuitive and personalised meditation exercises, how to expand your freedom.
About the teacher
simon chammas
mbsr meditation teacher
I first discovered meditation through my practice of yoga in 2011. Throughout my career it helped me walk through high stakes interactions and stress.
I decided in 2019 to make it my mission to help people find a meditation practice and make it their own.
You can find me since 2021 on the Brown University registry of recognised Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teachers.
I am currently based in Jakarta, Indonesia. I also teach internationally via video call.
About mbsr
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is an intensive, experiential and evidence based 8-week program. During it, participants discover, and train in different mindfulness and movement meditation practices. It invites participants to make a practice their own and integrate what they learned into their daily lives.
Created in 1979 by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., MBSR has over 40 years of research consistently demonstrating positive outcomes associated with increased self-awareness and emotional and attentional regulation.
how effective is mbsr?
Studies show that MBSR can reduce stress and help people relax. Studies of people who have type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, heart disease, chronic pain, and other problems show that MBSR helped some people cope better with symptoms and improved their quality of life.
Research also shows that MBSR helped people sleep better and feel less anxious, and it helped ease depression symptoms. In some people, MBSR also helped improve blood sugar and blood pressure. 1, 2, 3
Taking part in MBSR has been linked to positive changes in the areas of the brain that affect how you pay attention, how you feel, and how you think.4