Health Center Offering Class to Help Students Open Their Minds and Better Manage Stress

The Pat Walker Health Center's department of Wellness and Health Promotion is offering a free mindfulness course for students at the new Wellness Center at the Garland Center!

Koru Mindfulness is a four-week course specifically designed for teaching mindfulness, meditation and stress management to college students.

"We are very excited to offer this course again at the Wellness Center," said Dr. Ed Mink, director of wellness and health promotion. "Being more mindful can help you enjoy and appreciate life more, and help you better control your thoughts during the course of the day."

Students that have participated in this course has been shown to have significant benefits on sleep, perceived stress, mindfulness and self-compassion.

"Koru Mindfulness helps put things in perspective so that you can consciously make an effort to think positively and accurately," said Dr. Mink. "This course will help you be aware of the subtleness of life and help you start living a heart-centered life focusing on the NOW."

Benefits of the Koru Mindfulness course include:

  • feeling less stressed
  • staying calm and worrying less
  • being more mindful
  • sleeping better
  • using less self-judgment

How to sign up:

Koru Mindfulness is taught over four weeks, in small, 75-minute classes. Koru is designed for those with all mindfulness experience levels. The four-week course starts Tuesday, Oct. 4 (5-6:15 p.m.), and continues every Tuesday until Oct. 25.

To register for the upcoming Koru Mindfulness class, or for more information, email razmind@walton.uark.edu. Note: Class size is limited to 12 participants.

For more information about Koru Mindfulness, go to korumindfulness.org. 

Contacts

Daniel E. Harris, managing director
Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace
479-575-3721, deh002@uark.edu

Zac Brown, assistant director of communications
Pat Walker Health Center
479-575-4649, zacharyb@uark.edu

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