ROCHELLE MCLAUGHLIN
MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS REDUCTION
Rochelle is certified to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Mindfulness. She has completed advanced studies in Humanistic Psychology and is a certified yoga instructor. She has taught MBSR and neuro-social-psychophysiological perspectives and practices to several hundred participants through SJSU and internationally and she regularly leads retreats on integrating mindfulness into healthcare, human services, and corporate wellness programs, for people experiencing a broad range of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges.
Rochelle has personally and professionally experienced and witnessed the integration of mindfulness meditation practice as an extraordinary healing balm for the heart, body, mind, and soul as well as a practice of transforming relationships to self and others. She has woven mindfulness into settings such as mental and physical challenges and disabilities, pediatric care and conscious parenting, cancer care, grief and loss, equine-assisted modalities, chronic pain, as well as social and ecological justice work.
Rochelle’s teachings are rooted in her own embodied experiences of the transformative power of mindful awareness practices and she is inspired by the collective and collaborative journey weaving mindfulness in our unique experience and expression of these profound and personal practices in our lives.