Type: Body & mind
At USC Body & Mind you can join various mindfulness courses. As a student in Amsterdam, you’re not going to find mindfulness at a cheaper fee!
Mindfulness courses of 8 weeks, as well as single classes.
Ranging from walk-in meditation sessions to the original MBSR course.
Regular silent meditation days.
At our most relaxed USC location: USC Body & Mind in Amsterdam-Oost, and the Roeterseiland campus.
Mindfulness is fitness for the mind: you train awareness and concentration. Want to live life easier? Learn to cope with stress, worries and perfectionism? Mindfulness might help. By learning to be in the moment, you start to look at things differently. You experience less pressure, more resilience, and freedom.
Several scientific studies have shown that a practicing period of just 8 weeks is long enough for lasting effects:
Mindful yoga consists of gentle yoga postures (asanas), a body scan and a short meditation. You practice being mindful of your body, breath, thoughts and feelings in a gentle way. In this way you learn to stay in the here and now. You can find these classes in the yoga schedule.
Meditation is a broad concept and there are many different ways to meditate. Meditation can be used for concentration, calmness, (self) reflection, mindfulness or (self) compassion.
A guided meditation of about 20 minutes in USC Body & Mind. Also for beginners. There’s space for questions and sharing. You can find the class in the yoga schedule.
Lies Holtrop has over 40 of experience in yoga and meditation. She studied as a mindfulness trainer MBSR at the Centre for Mindfulness and joins annual (study) retreats in mindfulness and buddhist meditation. She is also a certified yoga instructor. At USC, she teaches hatha and mindful yoga, the meditation classes, and the mindfulness course. Lies is certified member (cat. 1) of the VMBN.
Hadleigh Gillibrand used to be a marketing manager. In 2000 he was diagnosed with MS, which led to a new career as a physio therapist and mindfulness teacher. He graduated from the Centrum voor Mindfulness and tought as a volunteer for a social mindfulness initiative in east Amsterdam for many years. Hadleigh has attended multiple meditation retreats and continues to embody mindfulness as a way of life with the underlying intention of helping others.
Subscribe
Subscribe online by clicking the link ‘Check all courses’ above! You can also come to one of our front desks, and we can help you with your online purchase. USC Body & Mind does not have a front desk, but USC Amstelcampus is right around the corner.
Important: in order to take part in the Mindfulness (MBSR) course, you must first have completed an intake. Sign up for the intake.
Silent meditation days
Saturday 16 March 2024 14:30 – 18:30 at USC Body & Mind (English)
Fees
Mindfulness (MBSR)
cat. I: €235,- | cat. II: €340,- | cat. III: €450,-
Intro mindfulness
cat. I: €28,- | cat. II: €45,- | cat. III: €55,-
Day of Silence
cat. I: €7,50 | cat. II: €10,- | cat. III: €15,-
Check in which category you’re in.
Starting dates courses*
Tuesday 6 February 2024: 8-weeks Mindfulness course (MBSR, English)
*courses are available for purchase on the Monday 5 weeks prior to the starting dates above
Roeterseilandcampus
Roetersstraat 11
1018 WB Amsterdam
USC Body & Mind
Tweede Boerhaavestraat 47B
1091 AL Amsterdam
(020) 525 89 55
Categories shortened for full categories
Cat. I | Students UvA and HvA, other Dutch day universities |
Cat. II | Employees UvA/HvA, alumni HvA, AUV-members UvA, other full time students of universities of applied sciences |
Cat. III | Anyone else |