trishmagyari.com

Trish's offerings

MBSR classes, mindfulness trainings and retreats

Trish's Bio

Trish Magyari, MS, is Baltimore’s most experienced MBSR teacher.  She has 35 years of meditation experience, has taught the MBSR 8-week series more than 50 times, and is trained in MBSR, MBCT and mindfulness-based psychotherapy. She has a Master’s degree in Genetic Counseling (1981) and recently completed a second Master’s in Clinical Community Counseling at JHU (2009).  Trained in MBSR in 1987, she completed the UMASS MBSR Teacher Development Intensive, their highest level of training, in 2000; since then she has facilitated MBSR groups in 6 clinical trials at NIH, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine (contact her for published results).   During her time as a genetic counselor, Trish focused on grief counseling and helping families and individual's adapt to chronic conditions; she continues to train genetic counseling students at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Heath.  

Besides Trish's academic credentials, she has trained in Eastern and Western forms of contemplative practice since childhood and has been a longtime student of mind-body medicine.  She has extensive training in many forms of meditation, yoga, guided imagery/visualization, bio-energetics, chanting, and authentic movement.   She is a practicing Quaker as well as a teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW).  Trish has sat many lengthy retreats, including six-week retreats in 1995 and again in 2007.  Retreat teachers include Jon Kabat-Zinn, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Sylvia Boorstein, Sharon Saltzberg, Larry Rosenberg, Lama Surya Das,  Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and Thich Nhat Hanh, who gave Trish the dharma name "Reverent Teaching of the Heart".

During her recent internship in clinical counseling at University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine, Trish concentrated on positive psychology and mindfulness-based psychotherapy.  She has adapted the MBSR course to be more sensitive to persons with chronic pain issues, to teens, and for  those who have PTSD and trauma histories, frequently presenting her work at the annual UMASS MBSR conference.  Trish delights in helping others to increase their sense of wholeness and well-being in the world, and to find peace and contentment in the midst of life’s difficult challenges.