At Home In Your Heart with Bonnie Duran, PhD & Tempel Smith Join us for a 5-day training of mindful loving awareness (metta) using your own house as the base of practice. With metta we cultivate calm embodiment, a steady capacity to appreciate all living beings and dissolve the habits that dull our ability to see each other respect. The greatest impact of metta is often to quiet our harsh inner critic and learn to befriend our actual selves.
These online practice periods at home are powerful ways to develop and integrate our deepest wisdom and strength in the place we wake up every day. These retreats meet the need we all have to learn how to bring the benefit of our loving awareness directly into our ordinary lives.
The daily retreat format will combine shared sitting and walking meditations with instruction, as well as an evening meditation with a discussion about the theory behind the practices. Afternoons during the training will have suggested practices to further strengthen and integrate loving awareness throughout our home life.
This retreat will draw from and reference Buddhist meditation practices but is open to anyone of any background.
Who: Anyone ages 16+
Dates: Wednesday, Aug 5 - Sunday Aug 9, 2020
Sliding Scale: $75 - $475, No one turned away for lack of funds.
Venue: Online via Zoom | | Aug 6, 13, 20 & 27 Relational Mindfulness Meetup with Tanzanite Msola What is Relational Mindfulness Meetup?
Relational Mindfulness is an idea that explores intentionally practicing mindfulness in a social setting with friends and community. It's a chance to really try on showing up as our caring, fun, and unapologetic self. The time will be spent doing some meditation, practicing active listening, & engaging in some fun conversation!
Dates: Thursdays Aug 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2020
Times: 6 PM - 7.30 PM
Cost: FREE
Venue: Online via Zoom | | Aug 10-31 Resilience at Work and at Home
A 4-week exploration, learning, and fun
with Mitra Manesh Are you resilient? When you encounter adversity, large or small, inner or outer, individual or collective, does it take you a long time to bounce back? Learning and developing mindfulness-based resilience skills is a must in this period of continuous challenge and change. Join us for a 4-week live virtual workshop, and learn, practice, and explore specific mindfulness tools that can show you how to kindly, quickly, and wisely get up when you fall.
Science, experience, and wisdom unanimously say that resilience has many health benefits. It’s a key factor in coping with stress and is associated with longevity, lower rates of depression and greater satisfaction with life. Mindfulness is a proven way of cultivating resilience. In this new workshop, we can show you how!
Dates: Mondays Aug 10-31, 2020
Time: 5 PM-6:30 PM PST
Venue: Online via Zoom | | Aug 12-Sept 16 Live Online Classes
Join Marvin G. Belzer, PhD, in this 6-week, science-based class, MAPs I- For Daily Living. The MAPs I course is an excellent introduction to mindfulness for beginners. MAPs I provides insight into the basics of mindfulness, how to develop a mindfulness meditation practice, and how mindfulness can be applied in daily life. It is also appropriate for experienced practitioners who wish to revitalize their practice.
Date: Wednesday Aug 12 - Sept 16, 2020
Time: 12 noon - 2 PM PST
Cost: $75-$200
Venue: Online via Zoom
| | Aug 12 Life in Crossroads: Cultivating Borderland Consciousness
with Dr. Ali Mossaver-Rahmani To “survive the borderlands”, Anzaldua reminds us, “you must live sin fronteras” (without borders). We will examine how ordinary material culture from our family artifacts/archives (like a photo) can facilitate a diasporic borderland consciousness.
This workshop complicates notions of home, homeland, exile, place and displacement. In its wake a gesture towards diasporic and nomadic sensibilities arise. Sensibilities that can reveal a deep-well of agency, power, and imaginary.
All are welcome.
Dates: Wednesday, Aug 12, 2020
Time: 7 - 9 PM PST
Venue: Online via Zoom | | Aug 26 Mindful Intimacy
with Giselle L Jones, LCSW, CMF, CSAT Please join us for a brief exploration of the vast yet intricate world of intimacy through the lens of mindfulness. We all have training throughout the lifespan that can promote and inhibit our ability to access the power of vulnerability. This can affect how we engage at work, with family, in friendships, and is woven through our romantic and sexual connections.
Engaging with somatic inquiry, curiosity and imagination, we invite a safe study of ways we can connect more deeply with ourselves and others when and if we choose to.
Our intention is to honor all inclusion.
Dates: Wednesday, Aug 26, 2020
Time: 7 - 9 PM PST
Venue: Online via Zoom | | Aug 27-30 Live-Online Mindfulness Meditation Retreat:
Incorporating Mindfulness into Daily Life This online retreat will include guided meditation instructions as well as guidance about integrating mindfulness into daily life.
This online retreat will include periods of: - guided mindfulness meditation
- instructions on integrating mindfulness into daily life
- small group periods for discussion and social connection
- playful exercises daily about ways to increase awareness as
- we eat
- communicate
- use digital technology
- other daily life activities
Dates: Thursday August 27, 7.30 PM PST - Sun August 30, 12noon PST
Venue: Online via Zoom | | Every Monday Pre-Recorded Online Classes In addition to the Live Webinar Classes with Diana Winston and Marvin G. Belzer and other trusted affiliate teachers, we also offer pre-recorded online classes with limited additional teacher interaction.
This is a good choice for someone who wants a webinar without much community interaction.
Classes include: - MAPs I for Daily Living
- MAPs II: Next Steps - Improve Your Meditation
- MAPs II: Cultivating Positive Emotions
- MAPs II: Working with Difficult Emotions
- MAPs II: Turning Obstacles into Allies
- Cultivating Forgiveness
Dates: New class sessions begin every Monday. | | Sept 12 Day of Mindfulness: Cultivating Self-Compassion With Diana Winston Many of us struggle with issues of self-judgment and self-criticism. People of all ages suffer from painful thoughts such as, "I'm not good enough," "I messed that up again," and "I hate my body." Although these thoughts may feel overwhelming and intractable, we can learn how to work with and lessen them. Science has shown that you can actually change your brain through mindfulness and the cultivation of positive emotional states.
In this daylong, we will explore mindfulness practices to work with self-critical thoughts, and self-compassion practices to nurture kindness and compassion for ourselves and others. The day will include sitting and walking mindfulness and kindness meditations, periods of silence, personal exploration, and discussion to help cultivate and encourage more self-compassion. Appropriate for beginners and those who have been practicing for some time.
Dates: Saturday, Sept 12, 2020
Time: 10 AM - 4 PM PST
Venue: Online via Zoom | | Inner Kids Collaborative Born out of a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Inner Kids Collaborative is a pay-what-you-can online platform that offers mindfulness classes for children, tweens, and teens as well as for parents, caregivers, and educators via Zoom.
At Inner Kids you’ll find 30-minute mindfulness classes each day, three times a day taught by experienced mindfulness teachers.
In an IKC class, you and your kids will learn mindfulness in playful and dynamic way through activity-based exercises and introspective practices that help everyone better cope with stress, develop friendly and open-minded awareness and connect with others in a welcoming community. | | | | |
