Classes and Events

With Diana Winston

Many of us typically practice by diligently applying mindfulness in our meditation and daily life. There is another aspect to mindfulness which is more effortless, organic, and naturally occurring, which we can call natural awareness. Natural awareness is the luminous, connected, pristine, ever-present, awareness within all of us. Most people have had glimpses of it. This daylong will explore this form of practice, inviting us to relax, open, and find a more spacious awareness. This type of practice enhances and complements our basic mindfulness meditation practice.
 
During the day we will use various tools and practices to access natural awareness and incorporate it into our lives.
 
Prerequisite: This daylong is for students with an existing mindfulness practice.

Date: Saturday, May 23, 2020
Time: 10 AM- 4 PM, PST
Venue: Online

We now offer Live Online MAPs classes! These live online classes are held in a small community format led by senior MARC teachers as well as affiliate MARC teachers you’ve come to know and love. This is a good choice for those who want to go through MAPs with a group of others, live teacher support, and is date/time specific. Class start dates and times vary, choose the times that work best for you!

• MAPs I for Daily Living
• MAPs I: For Daily Living (Portuguese)
• MAPs I: For Daily Living (Taught for Clinicians)
• MAPs II: Next Steps - Improve Your Meditation
• MAPs II: Next Steps- Improve Your Meditation (Portuguese)
• MAPs II: Joy in the Midst of Difficulty
• MAPs II: Cultivating Positive Emotions

We are pleased to announce a new section of our evidence-based MAPs program designed especially for mental health clinicians. This class will teach our MAPs 1 material, including an overview of mindfulness, working with difficult emptions, and cultivating positive emotions. 

Additionally, we will discuss unique challenges facing clinicians and how mindfulness tools may be applied in our various personal and professional roles. CE’s offered

 

In addition to the Live Webinar Classes with Diana Winston and Marvin G. Belzer, 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: 

Dates: New class sessions begin every Monday!

With Marvin G. Belzer

The basics of mindfulness meditation are at the core of a mindfulness practice. Our homes offer special opportunities for mindfulness practice both in meditation and in our daily activities.

In this daylong we will meditate; and also we playfully will bring more awareness into our current lives at home: the spaces we occupy; how we check the news; in our relationships; how we eat; and in play. 

This daylong is suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators.

Date: Saturday, June 6, 2020
Time: 10 AM- 4 PM, PST
Venue: Online

UCLA Summer Session Online with Marvin G. Belzer, PhD

Join us in this for-credit online class to study the practice and theory of mindfulness, including sitting and moving meditation, ways to deepen positive emotions like gratitude or joy, relational mindfulness, and methods for integrating awareness and creativity into ordinary activities.

We will examine the science of mindfulness for mental and physical health, including reduced stress, improved attention, and greater mind-body awareness.

Taught by Marvin G. Belzer, Ph.D. Associate Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center, Semel Institute for Neuroscience.

Open to UCLA students and the public. 4 academic credits.

This retreat is held in partnership between Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center.

Most people practice mindfulness in a focused way—attending to their breathing, returning to their breath when their attention has wandered. But there are actually many different ways to practice mindfulness.

In this retreat, we will learn about the Spectrum of Awareness Practices, from focused awareness to investigative and flexible awareness, to natural awareness. Natural Awareness is an effortless, radiant, and spacious state of being that includes awareness of awareness.

Over the retreat, through sitting, walking meditations, lectures. exercises, and meetings with teachers, we will practice each type of awareness and explore how these different approaches relate to one another. We will also make each practice relevant to daily life and will practice with them in our families, homes, and daily activities.

Dates: Dates: Wednesday, June 24, 3:00 pm – Sunday, June 28, 11:30 am, PST
Cost: $65-$1008 Sliding Scale 

Participate in this study exploring the effects of a brief mindfulness exercise on nurses’ resiliency during the time of COVID-19 Pandemic.  

Nurse participants will listen to a 10-minute mindfulness audio exercise a minimum of 3 times a week for three weeks.  A 3-minute survey scale will be given pre-intervention as well as one week and 3 weeks post intervention.  

Access the study here>>

Special Podcast Series: 6-feet apart with Dr. Wendy Slusser

In just a short time, our lives have changed dramatically. COVID-19 has challenged us all in different ways to cope, adapt, and grow. In this special series of the LiveWell podcast, we will be interviewing leaders around the world about how we can transition into this new way of life while maintaining all dimensions of our health.

We hope that by tuning in, you will feel more empowered with the knowledge and resources to face these uncertain times.  

Tune In Here>>

Supported by UCLA MARC

Each week we’ll be offering a 90 minute, topic-specific workshop, modeled after the workshops we offer on retreat. Workshops are led by many familiar teachers from recent MARC/IBME retreats!

Upcoming Workshops: 

May 24- Relational Mindfulness Games & Practices led by Anthony "T" Maes
May 31- Community Share led by Mark Wax

Times: Sundays, 12 pm - 1:30 pm, PST

For More Information & to Register>>