MILES MINDFULNESS
MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION

Warmly welcome. I am so happy you found my webpage. My name is Mai Miles Frandsen. I am certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher and a Mental Health Nurse from Denmark. I have lived in India, USA and Kuwait with my family for the past ten years. My mission and passion is to empower people in all walks of life to find inner resources to meet life stress with more ease and wisdom. In MBSR we work with what is right with people. All people have resources for healing and growth. Sitting in a group and practice mindfulness meditation and deep listening makes us heal, grow and reduce our stress levels dramatically. I look forward to a shared journey of healing and growth. I offer free weekly live online sessions, the 8 week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program and private mindfulness sessions. I am currently only been teaching online. 

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“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick 

MINDFULNESS IN KUWAIT

A mindfulness journey in the Middle East

TESTIMONIALS

Testimonials given by some of the MBSR graduates who joined my classes the past 4 years in Kuwait and online.

COMMON QUESTIONS ABOUT MBSR

WHAT IS MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION (MBSR) ?

8 week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program is a 8 week educational program. Participants meet one time weekly (2,5 hours) and one full silent retreat day (7,5 hours). Participants practice homework daily during the 8 weeks. Homework is mainly practicing meditation to recorded meditations. 
The MBSR program is 40 years old this year and is founded by professor in Medicine Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD. University of Massachusetts Medical Center in 1979. The Medical Center has pioneered to integrate mindfulness meditation into mainstream medicine, healthcare, schools, prisons, athletic training programs and in workplaces.
MBSR is a educational and evidence-based program and not an alternative to traditional medicine. MBSR is not therapy either.

IS MBSR FOR ALL PEOPLE AT ALL TIMES?

MBSR is not for all people at all times. MBSR is one out of many ways to learn to stress down. In my classes there are people ranging from 23 to 72 years. There are both man and women. People from all walks of life attend. What they have in common is being curious about boosting their health and wellbeing. 
If you suffer from depression, suicidal thoughts or other mental imbalance or physical illness kindly consult with your doctor, therapist or psychiatrist before considering joining the the program. There is a program called MBCT that is for people with depression.
If you recently experienced a major loss please wait and give your self some time before joining this program.

WHAT ARE THE BENIFITS OF MBSR

MBSR is one of the most researched mind-body interventions in the world and has proven to help many stress related imbalances:

• better sleeping

• less anxiety

• better immune system functions

• help regulate diabetes 

• help hypertension

• help regulate weight 

• help dealing with

• chronic pain

• less rumination

• less emotional reactivity

• more effective emotion regulation

• increased focus

• more cognitive flexibility

• improved working memory

The evidence is very clear: the more the participant practice - the better result

after the 8 weeks and years to come.

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Read about research here:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/mindfulness-based-stress-reduction

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WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE MBSR CLASS ROOM?

Listening and being more used to being in silence is one of the pillars in MBSR. Some people like to share more in the class and other people are more private. Both is fine. This program is about honoring who you are. One important thing is that we never give advise. We all have a lot of wisdom if we dare being quiet.

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In MBSR we practice:

• Mindful eating

• Sitting meditation

• Standing mindful yoga

• Lying yoga

• Walkng meditation

• Communication exercises

WHAT DOES IT COST?

The price is 100 KD (270 Euro) for the entire 8 week MBSR program. I give discounts to people who lost their jobs or are in another finacial crises. Let me know. 

MBSR graduates is 50KD (135 Euro).

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CV

Experience & Expertise

EDUCATION

1995 - 2020

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January 2020: Certification as MBSR teacher at Center for Mindfulness Brown University. 

March 2020: Certified in teaching MBSR live online by East Coast Mindfulness.

Janary 2015-2019 traning with Center for Mindfulness at Umass Medical school the in US. 

May 2014: Duke Integrative Medicine in Durham. 5 days Mindfulness Program for Professionals led by Jeffrey Brantley and Maya McNeilly.

2005 Post Graduate Mental Health Nurse, Specialuddannelsen i Psykiatrisk Sygepleje, Region Øst, Denmark.

2001-2003 Part Time course in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Gentofte Hospital, Denmark. 

1995, Bachelor in Nursing Science, Hvidovre, Denmark.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2017 - 2020

Founder of Miles Mindfulness (2017)

Taught 17 circles of the 8 Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program (+300 people).

2020 Online Mindfulness session Alshaya, Kuwait

2020 Online Mindfulness session Novo Nordisk, Kuwait

2020 5 hour Workshop for English Skills, Institut for Private teaching, Kuwait

2020 Mindfulness session for the management at Four Seasons Hotel Burj Alshaya, Kuwait

2019 Mindfulness session at a big marketing summit at M.H. Alshaya Co., Kuwait

2018 4 week Mindfulness for Beginners program at Manifesto13, Art Gallery, Kuwait

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VOULENTER WORK

2017-2020

Al Shaheed Park. Offering free mindfulness sessions the past 3 years.  

Mindfulness sessions to the medical staff at Public hospitals Mubarak Hospital and Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Hospital.

Center for Child Evaluation and Teaching. Al Surra.

Mindfulness sesson at the first women Surgeons of Kuwait Conference.

Offering weekly free online Mindfulness sessions on Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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