We are made for joy. This is who we are. We are not our fear, our grief, our anger, or our jealousy. We are so much more than that. This practice is about uncovering this well-being that is within us. And it's accessible, it's always here, we just need to cool ourselves down a bit, open up our hearts, and look clearly. As you touch into the profound, luminous qualities of your own heart, you know deep in your bones that you are completely worthy—that there is nothing wrong with you, and nothing has ever been wrong with you. Who you are, as you are, is perfect, perfectly imperfect, and perfectly perfect.
Diana Winston
Residential Retreat Teacher
Diana Winston is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center. She has taught meditation retreats as well as mindfulness for health and well-being since 1999 in a variety of settings including in healthcare, universities, businesses, non-profits, and schools in the US and internationally. She created the evidence-based Mindful Awareness Practices Program (MAPs), is the founding director of UCLA’s Training in Mindfulness Facilitation, and is a founding board member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. She has practiced vipassana since 1989, including a year as a Buddhist nun in Burma, and each day she tries to be a mindful mom.
She is the author of Glimpses of Being: A Training Course in Expanding Mindful Awareness, The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness, Wide Awake: A Buddhist Guide for Teens and co-author of Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness (with Susan L. Smalley, PhD). More of Diana’s meditations are available on the UCLA Mindful, 10 Percent Happier, and Waking Up Apps.
Diana Winston's Upcoming Programs
Retreat | On-Land
June 22 - June 27, 2024 | Saturday - Thursday | 5 nights
Mindfulness for Everyone
8 CE Credits. 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. Rooted in the Buddhist practice of mindfulness, this retreat focuses on practical applications of mindfulness and is open to people of all experience levels and backgrounds.
Dharma Library
Can't join us live online or on the land? Study and practice at your convenience with Diana Winston through our new library of recordings, articles, and self-paced online courses.