Penn Program for Mindfulness

• Mindful Movement

Essentials for Mindfulness – Based Weight Management: An Introductory Workshop to Transform Your Relationship with Food

While diets direct us away from our innate eating competence, mindfulness and meditation can be used as tools to guide us back to our healthy, natural weight by helping us to trust our body’s signals and thereby transform our relationship with food. Whether you want to end your struggle with weight, emotional eating, or other eating problems, or you simply want to re-learn how to eat more mindfully, this half-day workshop will teach you about basic mindfulness and "no – diet" principles as well as provide practices to help you begin to:

• Attend to your unique physiological needs by exploring sensations of hunger and fullness.
• Utilize basic sense perceptions to enhance awareness of habitual thought and emotional eating patterns.
• More skillfully respond to your needs by shifting from shaming and counterproductive "shoulds" to starting where you are with nonjudgmental, compassionate caring and "in – the – moment" choices.
• Be guided by your body through movement to not only stabilize your weight but also to embody life balance.

About the Instructors

Amy Tuttle, RD, LCSW is a nutrition therapist and director of a mindfulness-based nutrition and psychotherapy practice in Chestnut Hill, Center City, South Jersey, and the Main Line. She specializes in preventing and resolving eating problems, weight issues, and body image concerns.

Shirley Kessel, RYT has worked in healthcare for 25 years. She believes that wellness stems from tuning into and trusting the body’s inner wisdom rather than relying on the plethora of mandates from diet experts. A practitioner of yoga for over 20 years and a yoga instructor, Shirley maintains a specialty in yoga therapy for eating disorder recovery.

For more information please call 215-615-2774 or email stress.management@uphs.upenn.edu.