Events
New Series of Teachings with Michael Kearney
Deep Resilience Zoom Sessions Michael teaches two weekly Wednesday sessions on deep resilience, one the other from 9-10 a.m. and 7-8 p.m. Pacific time (start date Oct. 15). The course features a mix of didactic, experiential, and interactive teaching methods. To join via Zoom, click on https://www.mindfulheartprograms.org/meditate, then click on the Daily Meditations/Weekly Meetings button.
Sustainable Compassion Practices On Thursdays (start date Oct. 16) from 10-11 a.m., Michael leads meditation sessions based on Lama John Makransky's sustainable compassion practices. To join via Zoom, click on https://www.mindfulheartprograms.org/meditate, then click on the Daily Meditations/Weekly Meetings button. Visit https://sustainablecompassion.org/ to learn more about these practices and view Makransky’s book on “How Compassion Works.”
Reminder: There is no charge to attend our routinely scheduled online and in-person programs. Donations are gratefully accepted to support Mindful Heart Programs’ mission. You may designate a donation for a specific purpose, such as a contribution to our retreat scholarship fund or to help us cover Zoom and meeting room rental costs.
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November Super Moonrise Meditation + Sound Bath
Friday, Nov. 7, 5:30-6:30 p.m., with Peter Moreno
Location: Santa Barbara Middle School, 1321 Alameda Padre Serra
Watch the moon rise, meditate, and enjoy a soothing sound bath with crystal bowls and bells. Bring a jacket, beach chair, and blanket for outdoor viewing. We can move indoors, if needed. Follow the MHP signs and look for red blinking lights. There is a large parking lot on the campus. The suggested donation for this event is $10. It will not be available via Zoom. If you plan to attend, please notify Peter at 805-453-1813 by noon on Nov. 7.
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Emptiness and Fullness of Life
Note: This retreat was originally scheduled for Nov. 1 at La Casa de Maria.
Saturday, Nov. 15, 2-5 p.m., with Radhule Weinginer
Location: Santa Barbara Middle School, Lotus Theater, 1321 Alameda Padre Serra
We will practice emptiness meditations, which help us feel freedom from the constraints of our small, frightened self. Non-dual Loving-Awareness meditations allow us to become one with fullness, which in turn allows us to love and live with generosity and gratitude. To access the Lotus Theater, follow the MHP signs. There is a large parking lot on the ground level. Several accessible parking spots are located on the theater level. Advance registration is not required for this retreat. The suggested donation is $30. Refreshments will be served. Sign up on the form here.
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Upcoming Retreats at La Casa de Maria
Radhule Weininger and guests will lead half-day retreats at beautiful La Casa de Maria in Montecito in the coming months. Here is the calendar starting in November.
Navigating the Holiday Season with Grace and a Mindful Pause
Saturday, Dec. 13, 2-5 pm (originally scheduled for Dec. 6)
We will learn how to use the Mindful Pause Process to gain ease in stressful times. Ocean and waves and effortless mindfulness practices teach us to rest in calm awareness, no matter what.
Beginning the New Year with Awake Awareness and Love
Saturday, Jan. 24, 10 a.m-4 p.m.
This full-day meditation retreat will allow us to begin the New Year with intention and love.
Sustainable Compassion practices allow us to meet life with an open heart that does not burn out.
Loving Awareness meditations give us the tool to ground ourselves in a deeper stream and stay connected to our spiritual home.
Meeting Fear and Doubt with Fullness of Heart
Saturday, Feb. 7, 2-5 p.m.
We will learn about and practice ways to face our worries and existential questions with grace and skill.
This retreat offers a safe and open place where we can cultivate deep resilience, a connection with the deepest ground, and enduring, loving compassion.
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New Offering! Online Sessions on Conscious Aging
Conscious Aging, a workshop series led by Radhule Weininger, Michael Kearney, and David Richo
When: 4:30-6 p.m., six consecutive Tuesdays, Nov. 11- Dec. 16, with a wrap-up session on Jan 20.
The sessions will be held via Zoom. The meeting link will be sent to registrants prior to the start date.
Fee: $120. A percentage of proceeds will be used to support MHP’s mission.
Register: Registrants must be 65 or older. Class size will be capped at 12. To reserve your place, send a request to davericho33@gmail.com with the subject line: Conscious Aging Registration. Payments may be made by check, Zelle, or PayPal.
This workshop series is tailored to meet the needs and concerns of people in later life. Participants will have the opportunity to express their feelings about the aging process and learn about ways to prepare for the final phases of their life journey. Workshop facilitators will provide feedback and present practices focused on two main issues: letting go with serenity and moving on with grace while being aware that everyone has a calling and destiny to honor. Sessions will begin with a settling meditation and short talk. After an open-ended check-in with everyone, smaller break-out groups will meet via Zoom for about 20 minutes for additional sharing. The facilitators will provide guidance and questions for consideration. Visit the MHP website to see their bios on the teachers’ page.
Newsletters
Heart Medicine in Difficult Times
In this online year-long drop-in series, Radhule will teach you psychological and spiritual skills that will guide you to address the root causes behind painful patterns and show how to address them with comprehensive practices. Working with painful patterns is especially necessary in these times, as many of our old painful patterns are getting triggered by current difficult circumstances in our world. Uncertainty and trauma bring up our own woundedness and fear. In order to be engaged in our world, we need to heal our painful patterns and connect to the wholeness that is already there.
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Awake Aware: Touching the Sky behind the clouds and bringing it back to Earth
New Series with Radhule Weininger, MD, PHD.
This Monday (over zoom), we will continue an exciting new series on awake awareness meditations and the pointing-out instructions. We are repeating this series on Monday nights at 7.15 pm (Yoga Soup, Studio 2, as well as zoom).
Location: Yoga Soup, 28 Parker Way, Santa Barbara
Heart Aware: Mindful Body Breath and Awake Awareness Meditation Group
Time: Thursdays at 6:30pm (beginning December 1st, 2022)
Location: Saint Michael’s University Church, 6586 Picasso Rd, Isla Vista, CA
We will meet in person to practice meditation and self-compassion. Join us to cultivate a regular mindfulness practice and experience a sense of community and belonging on a weekly basis.
Heart Medicine in Difficult Times
with Radhule Weininger, MD, PhD
Sunday, August 28, 12:30-2pm
Last Sunday every month in 2022
In this online year-long drop-in series, Radhule will teach you psychological and spiritual skills that will guide you to address the root causes behind painful patterns and show how to address them with comprehensive practices. Working with painful patterns is especially necessary in these times, as many of our old painful patterns are getting triggered by current difficult circumstances in our world. Uncertainty and trauma bring up our own woundedness and fear. In order to be engaged in our world, we need to heal our painful patterns and connect to the wholeness that is already there.
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC): 8 Week Course
With Hattie Bluestone, DPT and Anahita Navab Holden, PhD
Sundays: August 7th-October 2nd
(with the exception of Sunday 8/28)
10 AM-12 PM
La Mesa Park
Price: $400
For registration, please visit www.yogasoup.com
In difficult moments, what would it be like to offer yourself the same kindness, care, and support that you would naturally extend to a friend? Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is an empirically supported, 8-week program that teaches core principles and practices to cultivate the skill of self-compassion. MSC was developed by Kristin Neff, PhD, and Christopher Germer, PhD, leader in the integration of mindfulness and psychotherapy. The program includes guided meditations, short talks, experiential exercises, group discussion, and take-home practices to integrate self-compassion into daily life. For more information please contact: info@anahitaholdenphd.com.
Deepening the Experience of the Sacred: Mindfully Embracing our World
During the morning of this day-long seminar, Radhule will teach you to deepen the practice of Ordinary and Non-dual Mindfulness, Introducing pointing out instructions, so you can learn to rest in awake awareness. Radhule will also introduce Self-compassion and Compassion-for-others (Tong Len) practices, which will include the care for ourselves and our world.
From 2 to 4 pm, Dave Richo will join us again, so we can together integrate our experience of the Sacred. We will also discuss how Kindness and Compassion can help us hold our personal suffering and how we can live with meaning and purpose in our troubled and breathtakingly beautiful world.
Maintaining our Balance in a Shaky World: Psychological and Spiritual Practices that Foster Inner Peace
In our present world of surprises, we may find it difficult to find a footing of safety and security in ourselves or in society. Violence and disease seem to be the new normal.
In an age of anxiety like this one it is perfectly understandable that we fear the future and perhaps lose trust in the political, psychological, and spiritual sources that were reliable before. Likewise, we may lose our trust in our own inner resources.
In this topsy-turvy world we still have one another. That is our source of hope. Our only challenge is to trust it when all the evidence has become shaky. We can learn to do that, always as beginners and always as enthusiasts.
In this workshop we will have time and space to explore what we fear or trust. We will experience practices of ordinary and non-dual mindfulness that take us to deep awareness.