Classes & Programs:
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Sunday Morning Mindfulness Meditation Class
Sundays, 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM, PST.
Online in Zoom.
Open To Everyone: Beginners or Advanced Meditation Practitioners.
We come together for a morning meditation, an opportunity for the mind and body to begin the day in calmness.
Mindfulness meditation allows everyone to gain the tools of slowing down, new insights into life, themselves, and opportunities for inner growth. Meditation offers the opportunity to slow down and look within. Science has shown that mediation lowers stress which strengthens our immune system.
The meditation is led by Rik Center, Co-founder of the Mindfulness Care Center. Rik is the Author of the Book: "If You Can't Change Your Mood, Change Your Mind ~ mindful reflections toward self-discovery."
Tuesday Evening Mindfulness Meditation Class
Tuesday Evenings, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, PST.
Online In Zoom.
Open To Everyone: Beginners or Advanced Meditation Practitioners.
Guided Meditation ~ Reflection ~ Community Connection ~ Q & A.
Mindfulness meditation allows everyone to gain the tools of slowing down, new insights into life, themselves, and opportunities for inner growth. Meditation offers the opportunity to slow down and look within. Science has shown that mediation lowers stress which strengthens our immune system.
The Tuesday Evening Meditation Class consists of a 30-minute sitting, reflective talk, and discussion.
The meditation is led by Rik Center, Co-founder of the Mindfulness Care Center. Rik is the Author of the Book: "If You Can't Change Your Mood, Change Your Mind ~ mindful reflections toward self-discovery."
Mindfulness Grief & Loss Support Group
2nd and 4th Monday Evenings of the Month
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, PST.
Online In Zoom.
Grief is a natural state of the heart to be acknowledged. It's not something we get over, it becomes integrated within us through time and into our ongoing life experiences. Grief and loss appear in many forms and quite often may feel overwhelming. It touches all of us at some point, though often our culture does not give us the time or support we need to heal, leaving us feeling isolated and unsure.
Through group sharing that utilizes mindfulness reflective skills and contemplative reflection, we can begin to feel whole and safe even in the midst of tremendous grief. Our ongoing support group provides an opportunity for coming together with others so that we can be heard and become more embodied around the losses and griefs of our life.
Facilitated by Rik Center, Co-founder of the Mindfulness Care Center. Rik is a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, a certified SEP - Somatic Experiencing Stress and Trauma Counselor/Practitioner, and a Buddhist/Interfaith Chaplain having served at San Francisco General Hospital and CPMC Hospitals. He presently sits on the Professional Advisory Group For Spiritual Care for CPMC/Sutter Health Hospitals in San Francisco.
DEER Program & Training: Developing Emotional Embodied Resiliency.
7-Week Online Mindful-Somatic Class to Unwind Stress and Traumatic Anxiety.
”Learn to be a creative partner in your life versus a reactive participant."
Orientation: Wednesday, September 13th, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm, PST.
7-Week Program Begins on Wednesday, September 20th thru November 1st.
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm, PST.
The DEER Program is a unique training designed to support participants in developing emotional-body stress resiliency, understanding attachment difficulty, personal boundary awareness, and coming into a richer sense of wholeness.
1. Gain new tools that support the release of dysfunctional physical/emotional anxieties that often overtake our lives.
2. Obtain new skills in how to dissolve stress.
3. Learn how to set down unwanted beliefs that keep us wrapped up in a daily life of stress.
4. Build a mindful-somatic approach that offers more kindness and compassion towards ourselves and how to discharge long-held anxieties.
If you have any questions contact Rik at rik@mindfulnesscare.org.
In-Person Mini-Meditation Retreat.
Saturday, March 16th, 2024
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
Location: 2041 Larkin Street in San Francisco
Mindfulness Care Center first in-person meditation since the pandemic!
This mini-mediation retreat is an opportunity to enrich our practice
Mindfulness meditation is a wonderful gift we offer ourselves. It’s an opportunity to slow down, reflect, and find a deeper wisdom within the mind and heart. Insight allows us to see the extremes the human mind creates through its attachments and desires, dislikes and aversion, doubts and confusions.
The mini-retreat will consist of sitting practice and movement.
A mindfulness and dharma reflection will be offered.
Plus, the opportunity for Q & A and community connection.
Free books and material on dharma, mindfulness, and meditation will be available.
Plus, grab yourself a cup of tea.
The mini-retreat is freely offered.
Donations are welcome.
See you there...Rik
The mini-meditation is led by Rik Center, Co-founder of the Mindfulness Care Center. Rik is the Author of the Book: "If You Can't Change Your Mood, Change Your Mind ~ mindful reflections toward self-discovery."
Mini Meditation Retreat
Meditation & Movement ~ Reflection ~ Community Connection ~ Q & A.
In-Person Mini-Meditation Retreat.
Saturday, March 16th, 10:00AM to 1:00PM.
Location: 2041 Larkin Street in San Francisco
Mindfulness Care Center first in-person meditation since the pandemic!
This mini-mediation retreat is an opportunity to enrich our practice
Mindfulness meditation is a wonderful gift we offer ourselves. An opportunity to slow down, reflect, and find a deeper wisdom within the mind and heart. Insight allows us to see the extremes the human mind creates through its attachments and desires, dislikes and aversion, doubts and confusions.
The mini-retreat will consist of sitting practice and movement.
A mindfulness and dharma reflection will be offered.
Plus, the opportunity for Q & A and community connection.
Free books and material on dharma, mindfulness, and meditation will be available.
Plus, grab yourself a cup of tea.
The mini-retreat is freely offered.
Donations are welcome.
See you there...Rik
The mini-meditation is led by Rik Center, Co-founder of the Mindfulness Care Center. Rik is the Author of the Book: "If You Can't Change Your Mood, Change Your Mind ~ mindful reflections toward self-discovery."
Sunday Morning Weekend Mindful Meditation
Mindfulness meditation allows everyone to gain the tools of slowing down, new insights into life, themselves and opportunities for inner growth.
Guided Meditation ~ Reflection ~ Q & A ~ Community Connection.
Open To Beginners or Advanced Meditation Practitioners.
We are able to meet online and practice together. Meditation offers the opportunity to slow down and look within.
Tuesday Evening Mindful Meditation (Copy)
Mindfulness meditation allows everyone to gain the tools of slowing down, new insights into life, themselves and opportunities for inner growth.
Guided Meditation ~ Reflection ~ Q & A ~ Community Connection. Open To Beginners or Advanced Meditation Practitioners.
We are able to meet online and practice together. Science has shown that by lowering stress our immune system can be strengthened. The Tuesday Evening Mindful Meditation is offered on a donation basis, no one turned away. We are supported by the practice of shared generosity.
The meditation is led by Rik Center, Cofounder of the Mindfulness Care Center. Rik is Author of the Book: "If You Can''t Change Your Mood, Change Your Mind ~ mindful reflections toward self-discovery."
Rik began a meditation practice in the late 80’s. He's a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, a certified SEP - Somatic Experiencing Stress and Trauma Counselor/Practitioner and Buddhist/Interfaith Chaplain. Rik has a Mindful-Somatic Private Practice working with clients in bringing resolution to long-held stresses, unresolved anxieties and PTSD, plus offering grief & loss support. Rik has served as a Buddhist/Interfaith Chaplain at San Francisco General Hospital and CPMC Hospitals. He presently sits on the Professional Advisory Group For Spiritual Care for CPMC/Sutter Health Hospitals in San Francisco. He''s a member of the USABP/United States Association Of Body Psychotherapy.
Mindfulness Grief & Loss Support Group
Mindfulness Grief and Loss Support Group. We meet the 2nd and 4th Monday of the month.
Grief is a natural state of the heart to be acknowledged. It''s not something we "get over" though we must "pass through."
Our ongoing monthly group provides an opportunity for coming together with others, so that we can be heard and become more embodied around the losses and griefs of our life.
Sunday Morning Weekend Mindful Meditation
Mindfulness meditation allows everyone to gain the tools of slowing down, new insights into life, themselves and opportunities for inner growth.
Guided Meditation ~ Reflection ~ Q & A ~ Community Connection.
Open To Beginners or Advanced Meditation Practitioners.
We are able to meet online and practice together. Meditation offers the opportunity to slow down and look within.
Tuesday Evening Mindful Meditation
Mindfulness meditation allows everyone to gain the tools of slowing down, new insights into life, themselves and opportunities for inner growth.
Guided Meditation ~ Reflection ~ Q & A ~ Community Connection. Open To Beginners or Advanced Meditation Practitioners.
We are able to meet online and practice together. Science has shown that by lowering stress our immune system can be strengthened. The Tuesday Evening Mindful Meditation is offered on a donation basis, no one turned away. We are supported by the practice of shared generosity.
The meditation is led by Rik Center, Cofounder of the Mindfulness Care Center. Rik is Author of the Book: "If You Can''t Change Your Mood, Change Your Mind ~ mindful reflections toward self-discovery."
Rik began a meditation practice in the late 80’s. He's a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, a certified SEP - Somatic Experiencing Stress and Trauma Counselor/Practitioner and Buddhist/Interfaith Chaplain. Rik has a Mindful-Somatic Private Practice working with clients in bringing resolution to long-held stresses, unresolved anxieties and PTSD, plus offering grief & loss support. Rik has served as a Buddhist/Interfaith Chaplain at San Francisco General Hospital and CPMC Hospitals. He presently sits on the Professional Advisory Group For Spiritual Care for CPMC/Sutter Health Hospitals in San Francisco. He''s a member of the USABP/United States Association Of Body Psychotherapy.
Sunday Morning Weekend Mindful Meditation (Copy)
Mindfulness meditation allows everyone to gain the tools of slowing down, new insights into life, themselves and opportunities for inner growth.
Guided Meditation ~ Reflection ~ Q & A ~ Community Connection.
Open To Beginners or Advanced Meditation Practitioners.
We are able to meet online and practice together. Meditation offers the opportunity to slow down and look within.
Tuesday Evening Mindful Meditation
Mindfulness meditation allows everyone to gain the tools of slowing down, new insights into life, themselves and opportunities for inner growth.
Guided Meditation ~ Reflection ~ Q & A ~ Community Connection. Open To Beginners or Advanced Meditation Practitioners.
We are able to meet online and practice together. Science has shown that by lowering stress our immune system can be strengthened. The Tuesday Evening Mindful Meditation is offered on a donation basis, no one turned away. We are supported by the practice of shared generosity.
The meditation is led by Rik Center, Cofounder of the Mindfulness Care Center. Rik is Author of the Book: "If You Can''t Change Your Mood, Change Your Mind ~ mindful reflections toward self-discovery."
Rik began a meditation practice in the late 80’s. He's a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, a certified SEP - Somatic Experiencing Stress and Trauma Counselor/Practitioner and Buddhist/Interfaith Chaplain. Rik has a Mindful-Somatic Private Practice working with clients in bringing resolution to long-held stresses, unresolved anxieties and PTSD, plus offering grief & loss support. Rik has served as a Buddhist/Interfaith Chaplain at San Francisco General Hospital and CPMC Hospitals. He presently sits on the Professional Advisory Group For Spiritual Care for CPMC/Sutter Health Hospitals in San Francisco. He''s a member of the USABP/United States Association Of Body Psychotherapy.
Mindfulness Grief & Loss Support Group
Mindfulness Grief and Loss Support Group. We meet the 2nd and 4th Monday of the month.
Grief is a natural state of the heart to be acknowledged. It''s not something we "get over" though we must "pass through."
Our ongoing monthly group provides an opportunity for coming together with others, so that we can be heard and become more embodied around the losses and griefs of our life.
Sunday Morning Weekend Mindful Meditation
Mindfulness meditation allows everyone to gain the tools of slowing down, new insights into life, themselves and opportunities for inner growth.
Guided Meditation ~ Reflection ~ Q & A ~ Community Connection.
Open To Beginners or Advanced Meditation Practitioners.
We are able to meet online and practice together. Meditation offers the opportunity to slow down and look within.
Benefits Of Self-Aware Practices: Expand The Mind, The Heart, And The Human Nervous System.
Nourish it.
Let go of what does not resonate with the true inner self.
Become it.
Our words, actions, and deeds become aligned.
Practice it.
We show up for ourselves.
Create it.
It all begins with an idea.
The Results:
Change is Inevitable, Growth is Intentional.
“Mindful awareness offers the opportunity to let go of conditioning that does not serve the good heart.”
~ Rik Center
Life is not so easy at times. Kindness toward others and ourselves changes everything. We have more space to recognize negative thinking habits that close off the heart of goodness.
~ Rik Center
“In finding wholeness we de-condition our thinking…Go beyond who or what you believe you are.”
~ Rik Center
