Events
Friday July 17, Noon-1 p.m., In Person: Effortless Mindfulness and Field of Care Meditation, with Radhule Weininger and Carla Tomson
We facilitate an Effortless Mindfulness and Field of Care meditation class once a month at The Sacred Space, 2594 Lillie Avenue, in Summerland. The class is intended to provide an opportunity to cultivate peacefulness, relaxation, and a deeper connection with your inner guidance. Sacred Space provides a private meeting space, chairs, and hot tea. Donations of any amount are gratefully accepted. Visit The Sacred Space Events webpage to register.
Subsequent classes are scheduled for Aug. 21 and Sept. 18. Carla, a graduate of MHP’s facilitator training course, will facilitate the summer classes.
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Saturday July 18, 1-5 p.m., hybrid: From Sustainable Compassion to Unbounded Awareness, with Radhule Weininger
This retreat is hosted by Yoga Soup. Register here to attend in person or via zoom. Sustainable compassion meditation and practices from the mahamudra tradition will be used to lead us from full-body concentration to subtle-body awareness to a non-dual ocean-and-wave experience. $35 registration fee.
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Tuesday, July 28, 8-9 p.m., In Person: Full Moon Meditation and Sound Bath, with Peter Moreno
Peter will be hosting his monthly full moon meditation and sound bath with singing bowls at East Beach in Santa Barbara near the volleyball courts across the street from the condominiums on Cabrillo Boulevard. Look for flashing red lights and lanterns. Bring a chair, blanket, and jacket. Refreshments will be served. A $15 donation is requested. Please call Peter at 805-453-1813 by noon on the day of the meditation to let him know that you plan to attend. There is not a Zoom option for this outdoor event.
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October 16-18 : Sedgwick Reserve Nature Connection Multi-day Retreat
Back by popular demand, we will be holding our three-day, two-night nature connection retreat at the Sedwick Reserve in the Santa Ynez Valley on Oct 10-12. Information on registration, overnight accommodations, and planned activities will be released in July. Send an email to mindfulheartprograms@gmail.com if you wish to be a volunteer staff member and/or notified when we release details.
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.