Events
Opening into Heart Awareness: A Day-long Retreat in Effortless Non-Dual Mindfulness
Saturday, April 20th, 2024
10 am to 4 pm
In person @ 1964 Las Canoas Rd. Santa Barbara, Empathy Center
Please join us to experience the power of Awake Awareness. A whole day of instructions, guided meditations, and time for questions will allow us to settle deeply into ourselves and into the loving awareness that is already here. We will bring together conventional and non-dual mindfulness teachings in an effortless way, so we can participate in our world with an open heart. New and experienced students are welcome. Please bring a bag lunch. We will provide coffee, tea, fruit, and snacks, as well as chairs and cushions. This retreat will be taught as a hybrid event. To join us on-line use the following link.
Suggested donation $60
ALL ARE WELCOME!
For questions please call: 805-455-6205
Guiding teachers are Radhule Weininger and Michael Kearney PhD
Here are the dates for the half-day and whole-day retreats for the rest of the year:
May 12th 2-5 pm Half-Day Non-Dual Mindfulness Retreat
July 13th 2-5 pm Half-Day Non-dual Mindfulness Retreat
August 11th 2-5 pm Half-Day Non-dual Mindfulness Retreat
October 12 th 10-4 Whole Day Non-dual Mindfulness Retreat
November 9th 10-4 pm Whole Day Non-dual Mindfulness Retreat
Weekly Silent Vigil: Standing in Silent, Caring Presence for ALL in Times of Great Pain
Thursdays
5-6pm
In person @ State and Anapamu Street
Many of us feel the sense of distress in our world. As a group of religious and spiritual people, we have been wondering how to respond. We know there must be more we can do than try to distract ourselves or sit anxiously and paralyzed at home. That is why a group of us, including Fr. Larry, Thepo Tulku, Debbie McQuaid, Michael Kearney and myself, stood silently on State Street on a recent Friday evening and again last Tuesday night holding a sign that says, “Standing Together for All in Silent, Caring Presence in a Time of Great Pain.” Our small group has already expanded. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and Hindu representatives and all of you who care about people and other sentient beings are invited to join us.
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.
Register with InsightLA
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.