InsightLA Blog - Latest Posts About Meditation and Mindfulness

Neurodiverse Neurodiversity Autism Awareness, mental health care puzzle pattern on heart with autistic child's and father hands

Neurodiversity and No Self – A Lesson in Acceptance

Living your life as an Autistic person, I sometimes feel out of place. Autistic people are only 1.5% of the population. We are not the only ones out of place, POC in a White dominated society, being LGBTQ+ in a straight world, also feel out of place. T... Read more

InsightLA and Food Insecurity: Taking our Practice of Generosity into the Community.

In the West, meditation is mostly practiced and taught by relatively well-to-do people who are not often exposed to the struggle that many Americans are going through every day. Approximately 38 million Americans live in poverty which makes accruing t... Read more

Quartz Bowls and Woman in Sound healing therapy and meditation sound bath

Author: Nicki Wong

Exquisite Trust

It came to me earlier today. My intention for today, tomorrow, and all my ceremonies, sound baths and retreats going forward is exactly that, exquisite trust. The definition of exquisite being “extremely beautiful” and “intensely felt.” A deep inhale ... Read more

Author: Brian Stefan

Mindful Grief

Recognizing the body pattern of grief, we can learn to soften to that tension instead of feeling defeated by the idea that fear and anger are our only alternatives. - Stephen Levine Why is it so hard to look at death? Why is it so hard to die? In t... Read more

Author: Donald Rothberg, PhD

Exploring the Heart of Insight Meditation in Retreats and Daily Life

When I went to my first Insight Meditation retreat in 1977, I was amazed. It was two weeks long, and I found levels of mental quiet and body energy that were unimaginable to me before the retreat. The teachings and stories about awakening were pretty ... Read more

Author: Lulu Toselli

Creativity and New Beginnings

After years of building a career as a creative professional, I feel like I have finally started my mindful creative journey. But over the past decade, although I have had a handful of creative jobs, I felt a million miles from this path. My creative c... Read more

Erica Lubliner, MD Psychiatry, Director, UCLA Spanish Speaking Psychosocial Clinic

Erica Lubliner, MD Interview

For National Stress Awareness Month, InsightLA just wants to let you know that we are here for you. Take time for you, slow down, breathe, go outside and meditate. This week we present an Interview with Erica Lubliner, Director of UCLA Spanish Speakin... Read more

Author: Melissa McKay

Intimacy with the Mind

There is an intimacy with the mind (consciousness, thoughts, feelings, emotions) that I have gained from practicing vipassana meditation. In that intimacy an understanding was developed of just how frequently the mind goes negative, producing thoughts... Read more

Buddhist healing impermanence Eileen Ybarra

Author: Eileen Ybarra

Life, Death, & Change – the Gift of Impermanence

Many years before I began my meditation practice, I unconsciously considered my feelings related to loss and grief a personal failure, as if I somehow should have understood and been prepared for death automatically. My grandmother died in my early tw... Read more

Author: Eres Medicina Music Ensemble

Eres Medicina Interview

In celebration of Earth Day, all are invited to Floreciendo con Pachamama- or Blooming with Pachamama (International Mother Earth Day) a special bi-lingual, half day retreat at Benedict Canyon Retreat House with meditation & music led by Rosamaría... Read more