In an effort to make our practice more accessible to our community, we created an education program so you could benefit from our knowledge in pain management. The following classes are o ered by BAPWC providers. These are open to the community.

The Bay Area Pain and Wellness Center specializes in pain management. We offer the most comprehensive approach to pain treatments.

First Session
• Intro to clinic (staff, classes, FRP structure)
• How patients are referred/pathways
• Acute vs. Chronic Pain
• Education Around Physical Activity/Exercise
• Tai Chi Excercise

Second Session
• Stress Reduction Focus lecture
• Stress and its effects upon the body lecture
• Stress/Body Scan medication

Community Education Program
The Bay Area Pain and Wellness Center (BAPWC) specializes in pain management by offering the most comprehensive approach to pain treatments.

In an effort to make our practice more accessible to our community, we created an education program so you could benefit from our experience in pain management. Community classes are open to the public.

Third Session
• Family Education group
• Home Excercise/Partner Stretching Excercise
• Coping mechanism for pain excercise
The above classes are for 3 consecutive weeks
Mondays, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Fee: $30.00, 3 class series
Contact Lucrecia at (408) 364-6799
Open to the Community

The Expressive Arts for Health program offers a variety of services that include ongoing art therapy support groups and visual journaling workshops. In addition, this FRP program spearheads events designed to foster a social community for our patients. In collaboration with Local Art Schools. We now provide classes for those who wish to develop their artistic ability in a studio setting.

(Reserved for FRP graduates)

The Expressive Arts for Health Class:

These classes offer a variety of expressive art services that include art therapy support groups, visual journalizing workshops and an open art studio. In addition, the classes spearhead art-involved events designed to foster a social community.

Class schedule and fee information,
Contact Christine Hirabayashi at (408) 357-7656

For more information about our Expressive Arts for Health Classes, please click here.

To view our clients artwork, please click here.

Community Education Program
The Bay Area Pain and Wellness Center (BAPWC) specializes in pain management by offering the most comprehensive approach to pain treatments.

In an effort to make our practice more accessible to our community, we created an education program so you could benefit from our experience in pain management. Community classes are open to the public.

is designed to help people learn how to deal effectively with physical and emotional stresses. Through learning relaxation and awareness practices, participants are taught to use their inner resources to relieve stress and manage pain more effectively.

Dates: Sept. 28 - Nov. 23, 2011, No class Oct. 19th

Times: 5:30-7:30 p.m., Wednesday evenings

Retreat date: Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.

Required pre-registration: Fee - $199

Included class materials: "Guided Mindfulness Meditations" CD and MBSR workbook

Results after the program:

Majority of participants who complete the program report:
• Decreased physical & psychological symptoms
• Increased ability to cope with stressful situations
• Improved self-esteem
• Greater energy
• Improved pain levels or coping with chronic pain
• More skillful communication

This lecture teaches the difference between an acute and chronic stress response. You will also learn stress management techniques such as breathing and mindfulness meditation. And we will also help you answer the now infamous question; why don’t zebras get ulcers?

Schedule: Once a month,
Fee: $10 per lecture

About the instructor: Shaylin Ebert, Shaylin is a behavior specialist, therapist, and wellness teacher for the Bay Area Pain and Wellness Center. She earned her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Religious Studies from North Central College in 2005, and subsequently her M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University in 2008. Deeply moved both...
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Required pre-registration
Fees to: Shaylin Ebert at (408) 357-7675
(Open to the community)
Must be paid prior to the first day of class.

Shaylin Ebert is a behavior specialist, therapist, and wellness teacher for the Bay Area Pain and Wellness Center. She earned her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Religious Studies from North Central College in 2005, and subsequently her M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University in 2008. Deeply moved both personally and professionally by mindbody practices and their potential to spur profound healing, Shaylin makes it a point to integrate these practices into all that she does.

Along with her ongoing personal practice of meditation and yoga, Shaylin has done extensive professional trainings in mindfulness meditation. She has participated in a training with Drs Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli, the founders of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and done many residential meditation retreats.

She has also done academic research with Dr. Shauna Shapiro, a leading researcher and teacher of mindfulness, on the effects of mindfulness meditation at Santa Clara University. Shaylin hopes to mindfully engage with clients and empower them to improve their own health and well-being.

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This is an eight-week course teaching the principles of mindfulness meditation to reduce stress and increase overall levels of mental and physical health.

Wednesdays, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Fee: Contact Shaylin Ebert at (408) 357-7675
(Open to the community)

This lecture teaches the difference between an acute and chronic stress response. You will also learn stress management techniques such as breathing and mindfulness meditation.

And we will also help you answer the now infamous question; why don’t zebras get ulcers?

Once a month,
Fee: $10 per lecture

Community Education Program
The Bay Area Pain and Wellness Center (BAPWC) specializes in pain management by offering the most comprehensive approach to pain treatments.

In an effort to make our practice more accessible to our community, we created an education program so you could benefit from our experience in pain management. Community classes are open to the public.

After care program structured to enforce independence for graduates outside of workers compensation. Mainly focuses on circuit training to reinforce proper pacing and flare up management in combination with complete body work out.

Mondays or Wednesdays,
2-3 p.m.
Fee: $10.00 per class
Contact Lucrecia at (408) 364-6799

Community Education Program
The Bay Area Pain and Wellness Center (BAPWC) specializes in pain management by offering the most comprehensive approach to pain treatments.

In an effort to make our practice more accessible to our community, we created an education program so you could benefit from our experience in pain management. Community classes are open to the public.

This class is spefically targeted for FRP graduates. It is one hour of full body circut training with pacing and flare up management integrated into the exercises. It is a way to maintain progress, continue to progress and decrease the possiblity or the risk of recidivism.

FRP Graduates only, please join us on FaceBook! Twice a week we invite all of our "Back on Track" FaceBook friends to the BOT-gym and BOT wellness. Check it out and also feel free to tell any grads that come your way that they can follow our after care programs. Click the icon below.