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Living Arts has been created in Montreal, Quebec to provide you with ways to enhance your well-being, manage stressand establish balance in your life. The pressures of contemporary society and the juggling between our many roles, place significant demands upon us. Burnout has becoming more prevalent. Stress levels are on the rise and, as a result, emotional and physical health is suffering. Research however has shown that active relaxation has significant benefits in decreasing our physical and emotional vulnerability to the impact of these stressors. If practiced regularly, deep relaxation can strengthen the immune system, balance the endocrine system and produce a host of other medically valuable physiological changes such as lowered blood pressure, decreased cholesterol levels and a greater capacity to cope with stress, pain and illness.
Montreal’s Living Arts provides you with a wide array of services including yoga, meditation, stress management programs and personal counseling to assist you in enhancing your capacity to manage stress, pain and daily challenges with ease and confidence. Hundreds of Montrealers have already benefited from the stress and pain management training they have received through their participation in the Mindfulness Based Stress Management Program - click here to view testimonials.
The Mindfulness Based Stress Management Program, unique in its kind in Montreal, is modeled after the Mindfulness Based Stress Management Program designed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, of the University of Massachusetts Health Care Center, who is the best selling author of Full Catastrophe Living and Wherever You Go, There You Are. This program is specifically geared to help you develop the skills necessary to manage chronic stress and physical pain and illness as well as to develop a long-term meditation practice. An integration of practice and discussion within a supportive group environment will provide you with a strong foundation for long term self-care and mindfulness practice way beyond termination of the program.
Whatever your physical condition may be, the yoga and meditation instruction, the stress and pain management programand thestress management counseling offered at Living Arts are provided to meet your own particular needs and goals.
About Gina Rubinsky
Gina Rubinsky is a registered psychologist, stress and pain management counselor and certified Montreal yoga instructor. She has been specializing in the areas of yoga instruction and stress and pain management for the last 10 years in Montreal and Ottawa, during which time she has led workshops and retreats for various organizations, businesses, hospitals and community groups. She is a graduate of the professional internship-training program in Mindfulness Based Stress Management, directed by Dr.'s Jon Kabatt-Zinn and Saki Santorelli, at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care Center and was certified as a yoga instructor at the Kripalu Center in Lenox, Massachusetts.