Classes and Events

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UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center offers classes, daylong events, workshops, a weekly podcast, year-long programs, free guided meditations, and free virtual drop-in meditations.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Intensive Practice Program

Application Cycle Open!

This 10-month online program (March-December 2021) provides a cohesive mindfulness practice and study course taught by UCLA trained facilitators and teachers. Our Intensive Practice Program (IPP) is for dedicated students who wish to deepen their personal mindfulness practice in a supportive community.

Students will have prioritized access to MARC classes and events, engage in monthly supervision sessions, receive mentorship, and connect in peer support groups. Further personal growth will be enabled by several outside requirements.

All MARC classes are currently held online either live online or prerecorded online.

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Upcoming Events

Jan: MAPs classes with varying topics and start dates.
Jan 28: Weekly Relational Mindfulness M eet-Ups
Jan 30: Mindful Parenting Workshop
Feb 5-7: An Integrated Online Mindfulness Retreat
Feb 20: Day of Mindfulness- Working with Anger- Developing Skill in the Midst of Intense Feeling New
Feb 28: Day of Mindfulness- Freedom from Anxiety New

Mindful Awareness Practices

Live-online and pre-recorded classes are now available to start planning your new year mindfulness journey.

Classes include beginner and advanced levels to suit your practice.

Start times, dates, and topics vary; see schedule for more information.

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Mindful Parenting Workshop
with Mitra Manesh

Parenting is one of life’s most rewarding, challenging, and transformative experiences. It can push your buttons—and deepen your capacity for love—like nothing else. Imagine journeying through the never-ending road of parenting with a sense of awareness, presence, and joy.

Join Mitra Manesh, a parent and a senior mindfulness educator, in this intensive 3-hour online workshop. There will be lectures, practice, story-telling, tool-sharing, and Q & A.

Sat, Jan 30, 9 am - 12 pm, PST

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Relational Mindfulness Meet-Ups
with Tanzanite Msola

In relational mindfulness, we practice mindfulness in interactions with other people. Paying attention to and receiving attention from others can help us deepen concentration and mindfulness.

Thurs, Jan 28- Mar 4, 6-7:30 pm, PST

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Mindfulness Meditation and Practice in Daily Life: An Integrated Online Mindfulness Retreat

This online retreat will include guided meditation instructions as well as guidance about integrating mindfulness into daily life while sheltering at home.

The teachers for this retreat are UCLA's Marvin G. Belzer and Diana Winston, together with other staff with extensive experience in teaching with this retreat model.

This retreat is open to anyone ages 16+

Dates: Fri, Feb 5, 4:30 pm, PST - Sun, Feb 7, 1 pm, PST

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Day of Mindfulness: Working with Anger- Developing Skill in the Midst of Intense Feeling
with Matthew Brensilver, PhD

From minor irritation to abiding rage, anger has important effects on our lives, our families and our society. If we are to be deeply happy and nourish the happiness of others, we must include anger as part of the mindfulness path.

While we acknowledge the suffering caused by anger, our approach does not dismiss anger. Often, anger contains wisdom and delusion. Mindfulness helps us untangle these threads. To do so, we practice meeting the experience of anger with compassion, creating conditions for understanding to grow.

During this daylong, we’ll learn meditative strategies to untangle anger into its experiential components.

Date: Saturday, February 20, 10 am- 4 pm, PST

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Day of Mindfulness: Freedom from Anxiety
with Diana Winston

If you are struggling with anxiety, you are not alone!

Most people face daily anxiety, worry, and fear, even in the best of times. But these emotions have been intensified, quite obviously, given the pandemic and all the resulting uncertainty and challenges.

In this day of mindfulness, we will learn how to be mindful amid anxiety and fear. We will discover how to use mindfulness to manage the ways in which our minds quite naturally (and habitually) worry and ruminate. We will also learn to cultivate states of mind that counteract these emotions and habits -- states of fearlessness, ease, and kindness. We will spend the day with sitting and walking meditations, lecture, dialogue, and reflections.

Date: Sunday, February 28, 10 am- 3 pm, PST

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