Books and articles:

MBSR is the subject of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s best selling book, ‘Full Catastrophe Living‘ and Saki Santorelli’s book, ‘Heal Thy Self‘.

Read what Oprah has to say about MBSR: www.oprah.com/spirit/Learn-to-Relax-With-Mindfulness-Meditation

How meditation changes your brain: www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/05/26/harvard-neuroscientist-meditation-not-only-reduces-stress-it-literally-changes-your-brain/

Videos:

The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program was featured in the 1980s in Bill Moyers’ PBS documentary ‘Healing and The Mind‘:

Websites:

The ‘Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare, and Society’ at the University of Massachusetts: http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm

The ‘Mindfulness Research Guide’: www.mindfulexperience.org

The UCLA ‘Mindful Awareness Research Center’: http://marc.ucla.edu

The ‘Mind & Life Institute’: http://www.mindandlife.org

‘Mindful’, a monthly publication on mindfulness: http://www.mindful.org

The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society: http://www.contemplativemind.org

The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds: http://www.investigatinghealthyminds.org

Meditation Centers and Groups:

Anchorage:

AK Center for Mindfulness (www.akcfm.com)
Snow Buddha Meditation & Yoga (www.snowbuddha.org)
Anchorage Zen Community (www.alaska-zen.org)

Fairbanks:

Cold Mountain Zen Center (http://www.coldmountainzencenter.org/)
Katog Karma Ling Tibetan Buddhist Meditation (http://www.katogkarmaling.org/)

Juneau:

Juneau Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Center (http://juneau.shambhala.org/)

Katog Ewam Ling Buddhist Meditation Group (http://www.katogewamling.org)

U.S. West Coast:

Spirit Rock Meditation Center (www.spiritrock.org)

Cloud Mountain Retreat Center (www.cloudmountain.org)

U.S. East Coast:

Insight Meditation Society (www.dharma.org)

Scientific Research on Mindfulness and MBSR:

2010. Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21071182

2010. The effect of Mindfulness-based therapy on Anxiety and Depression – A meta-analytic review: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848393/

2010. MBSR reduces stress-related psychological distress in healthcare professionals: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20977037

2010. Participation in a mindfulness based stress reduction program is associated with increased natural killer cell activity: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20455784

2008. MBSR: a literature review and clinician’s guide: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18387018

2012. MBSR for Family Caregivers: A Randomized Controlled Trial: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23070934

2012. Weekly Change in Mindfulness and Perceived Stress in a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program: nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22623334

2011. Sustained impact of MBSR on stress, well-being, and daily spiritual experiences for 1 year in academic health care employees: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22010779

2011. Mindfulness-based stress reduction for integrative cancer care: a summary of evidence: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21934319

2012. Association of participation in a mindfulness program with measures of PTSD, depression and quality of life in a veteran sample: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22125187

2012. Effect of mindfulness training on asthma quality of life and lung function: a randomized controlled trial: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22544892

2011. MS quality of life, depression, and fatigue improve after mindfulness training: a randomized trial: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20876468

2008. Neuroplasticity and meditation: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20871742

Please note: This is just a very small sample of scientific research into MBSR. You can find many more research results at: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov