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  • This class is a donation based class. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
  • Date/Time Wednesday, June 30, 2021
    5:15 PM - 6:00 PM PT

Refund and Event Policies

Please join InsightLA’s MSC teachers in continuing your practice with other MSC graduates in a weekly drop-in format.  Each week we will meet, connect as a group, have a short refresher lesson on an aspect of MSC, and enjoy a guided MSC meditation, with time to ask questions and reflect on how MSC is continuing to unfold in your life.  
 
All those who have already taken an MSC 8-week course, 2-day intensive, or 6-week Short Course are welcome!  
 
Schedule:
3/23 Megan Heiser – Loving Kindness for a loved one
3/30 Wendy Schmelzer – Soften, Soothe & Allow: Challenging Emotions
4/6 Dina Aish 
4/13 TBD
4/20 James Rosser – Compassionate Body Scan
4/27 Angelike Dexter
5/4 Dina Aish
5/11 TBD
5/18 James Rosser – Giving and Receiving Compassion
6/1 Suzanne Smith
6/8 Megan Heiser – Affectionate Breathing
6/15 James Rosser – Compassionate Body Scan
6/22 James Rosser – Giving and Receiving Compassion
 
 
 
Suggested Donation: $25

Dina Aish, EdD Teacher

Dina is an educator and mindfulness teacher with a doctorate degree in education and teaches methods and social emotional learning professionally at the college level and to elementary school faculties throughout Los Angeles, CA. She is a founding teacher with the Insight in Schools program and has a passion for supporting teachers with mindfulness and... Read more

James Rosser, LCSW Teacher

James has meditated for over 30 years, beginning in 1987 with James Baraz. He graduated from InsightLA’s Facilitator Training Program and  Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (Inaugural Class). James is also a  Trained Teacher for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. James leads secular and Buddhist- based mindfulness training, sits, and... Read more

Angelike Dexter, JD

Angelike Dexter shares mindfulness and Mindful Self-Compassion tools with students of all ages in the Los Angeles area and now, on Zoom, around the world. Trained by Susan Kaiser Greenland (author of “The Mindful Child” and “Mindful Games”) and a graduate of Susan’s 2013 Inner Kids Facilitator Training, Angelike teaches mindful awareness to children, parents, teachers,... Read more

Mindful Self-Compassion Practice Group (Prerequisite: MSC)

Please join InsightLA’s MSC teachers in continuing your practice with other MSC graduates in a weekly drop-in format.  Each week we will meet, connect as a group, have a short refresher lesson on an aspect of MSC, and enjoy a guided MSC meditation, with time to ask questions and reflect on how MSC is continuing to unfold in... Read more

Mindful Self-Compassion Practice Group (Prerequisite: MSC)

Please join InsightLA’s MSC teachers in continuing your practice with other MSC graduates in a weekly drop-in format.  Each week we will meet, connect as a group, have a short refresher lesson on an aspect of MSC, and enjoy a guided MSC meditation, with time to ask questions and reflect on how MSC is continuing to unfold in... Read more

Wendy Block, LCSW Teacher

Wendy N. Block started practicing meditation at age 18, studying different traditions, including Buddhist, Hindu, and Advaita paths with various teachers. She has been practicing Vipassana meditation for the past 15 years, and has helped organize meditation programs in Long Beach for the past 10 years. She has trained with cognitive psychologist Zindel Segal to... Read more

Wendy Schmelzer, LCSW Teacher

Wendy Schmelzer has been teaching meditation in health and healing environments since 2006 — most recently as an instructor at the Greater Los Angeles VA where for five years she taught mindfulness and compassion practices to staff, veterans, and family caregivers as part of InsightLA’s VA CALM team. A longtime meditator, she is a graduate... Read more

Suzanne Smith, MSN, RN, NP

Suzanne Smith, MSN, RN, NP, is a Family Nurse Practitioner at UCLA where she is involved in Mind-Brain-Body research and has facilitated MBSR for research studies. Suzanne has been meditating with InsightLA since 2006, and is a graduate of Mindful Self-Compassion, Fearless Compassionate Care, MBSR and Mindfulness Facilitation Teacher Training Programs. Suzanne enjoys offering guidance... Read more

Mark Miller, PsyD, MPH

Mark Miller, PsyD, MPH has been a meditator for over 25 years with experience in the Vipassana and Tibetan traditions. Mark has a compassion-based approach to teaching that is trauma-informed and student directed. He is as trained teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion.  Mark is a clinical psychologist, and he is passionate about integrating mindfulness with western psychology.  Mindful approaches to end of life and... Read more

JD Lloyd, MFA Teacher

JD Lloyd is a long-time member of the InsightLA Meditation Community, where he completed four years of dedicated Dharma study programs and received training to facilitate mindfulness classes. He completed additional training to conduct courses in Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), and he has also received specialized education in chaplaincy support, contemplative caregiving, and trauma-sensitive mindfulness. JD... Read more

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