On-Land Retreat
Mindfulness for Everyone
Mindfulness offers us tools to develop our capacity to pay attention, regulate emotions, and cultivate states of lovingkindness, compassion, and even-mindedness. Mindfulness can be practiced in a variety of ways—from focused attention to wide open, spacious, natural awareness. Over time, one can access states of profound well-being in both silent meditation and everyday life.
In this retreat we will practice mindfulness through sitting and walking meditation, as well as through lectures and the opportunity to meet with teachers who will guide our practice.
While rooted in the Buddhist practice of mindfulness, this retreat will focus on practical applications of mindfulness and the variety of ways to practice it. It is open to people of all experience levels and backgrounds, especially those interested in secular mindfulness. The retreat is held in silence except for teacher-led Q&A, small group discussions, or other practice meetings.
Continuing Education: 8 CE Credits
$80
This program offers 8 CE Credits Continuing Education (CE) credits for $80 for , and may be applicable for other licenses. Please review our CEC information page for full provider information.
To be eligible for Continuing Education Credits (CECs), you must:
- Register and pay for CECs by 4:30 p.m. PT, the business day before the program. After the program begins, no retroactive CECs will be given and the CEC fee is non-refundable.
- Attend in full and fulfill all attendance requirements and next steps. No exceptions. Please review the CEC information page for attendance requirements.
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Additional notes
- For full provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our CEC information page.
- Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905, for 8 contact hours.
- Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
- For those with a different license or with a license from a different licensing board, please contact your licensing board directly to ask if CE credit from the above-approved sponsors is accepted. Spirit Rock does not confirm applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed above.
Teaching Team
Diana Winston
Teacher
Diana Winston is the Director of UCLA Mindful, the mindfulness education center of UCLA Health. She has taught retreats at Spirit Rock since 2004. She is the author of Fully Present, The Little Book of Being, and Wide Awake: A Buddhist Guide for Teens.
Alex Haley
Teacher
Alex Haley has practiced meditation for more than 25 years, including many multi-month retreats. He teaches at Minneapolis Insight Meditation Community and online through Dharma Ground. He graduated from the SRMC/IMS/IRC training program and is the former mindfulness faculty lead at the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing.
Gullu Singh, JD
Teacher
Gulwinder “Gullu” Singh is Dharma teacher and corporate attorney with extensive training in both the practice and instruction of meditation. Gullu is inspired to share the Buddhist teachings as a path to well-being and a way to meet the challenges of life with more ease, grace and resiliency.
Vadan Tereza Ritter
Teacher
Vadan Tereza teaches Yoga and Qi Gong through the San Francisco Public Health Department, and focuses on the healing power of Mindful Movement. She is also a UCLA trained Mindfulness facilitator, Certified Awakening Joy teacher and Licensed Acupuncturist.
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