December 12-14, 2025

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Friday PM - December 12 ||  5-7pm Pacific / 8-10pm Eastern
Loving the Resistance: Deepening Our Equanimity

Leader: Noah Binder
Type of Program: Special Theme
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Feel Rest, See Hear Feel, and Feel Good
Fee: $10 per person 

The good news about mindfulness practices is that equanimity—the capacity to be with our sensory experience without resistance—is not simply determined at birth. Rather, it is a skill we can actively train. In this program we will explore multiple strategies and techniques for cultivating equanimity in our bodies and minds—both on and off the cushion.

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Saturday AM - December 13 ||  5-9am Pacific / 8am-12pm Eastern
Beyond Pain: Expanding Your Galaxy of Experience

Leader: Inés Aulló Pérez
Type of Program: Special Offering
Prerequisites: Familiarity with See Hear Feel, Rest, Good, Flow ; (optional but recommended): Feel Flow, Feel Good, Shinzen's Pleasure/Pain reasoning,
Expansion/Contraction, Nadi shodhana prayayama (though it will be explained)
Fee: $20 per person

Discover a transformative approach to pain that reaches far beyond simple relief. In this program, we’ll explore how pain is rarely just one thing—instead, it’s a galaxy of sensations, thoughts, emotions, and, often, subtle pleasures or neutral moments. Drawing from both Unified Mindfulness and Shinzen Young’s teachings, we’ll gently deconstruct the pain experience using tools like See–Hear–Feel, mindful breath cycles, and compassion practices. By learning to spot resistance, notice even the slightest comfort, and rest in non-judging awareness, we expand our window of tolerance and reveal new ways to relate to discomfort. Whether you live with chronic pain or emotional storms, this session is a safe space to discover resilience, flexibility, and surprising moments of ease.

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Saturday PM - December 13  ||  10am-2pm Pacific / 1-5pm Eastern
The Restful Jhānas: Finding Stillness in Sensory Experience

Leader: Colleen Godfrey
Type of Program: Special Theme
Prerequisites: Beginner to Advanced. Some experience with Noting; Clarity, Concentration &Equanimity and seated, eyes-closed practice, will be helpful.
Clear, structured guidance will be provided.
Fee: $20 per person 

Using Shinzen Young’s Focus on Rest framework, we’ll explore how classical markers of absorption manifest through six sensory “flavors” of tranquility—Relaxation, Light, Silence, Peace, Quiet, and Gone. We’ll compare and contrast a theme of drishti-based focused attention with relaxed, defocused awareness as we explore the terrain of the first four jhānas. Through guided practice, discussion, self practice, tangible sensory experience, and Q&A, participants will learn to recognize and rest within these states, cultivating high concentration and restful abiding that naturally evolves from embodied joy to deep equanimity.

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Sunday AM - December 14 ||  8am-12pm Pacific / 11am-3pm Eastern
Do Nothing Variations

Leader: Kevin Lacroix
Type of Program: Sharpening
Prerequisites: Familiarity with the See, Hear, Feel family of techniques will be helpful, but not essential.
Fee: $20 per person

One of Unified Mindfulness’s great strengths is its precise language, which helps us explore sensory experience at every level—from the obvious and ordinary to the subtle and profound. That said, I’ll admit there were times when the pinpoint instructions of certain UM techniques initially left me puzzled. It was only after hearing similar ideas expressed in other frameworks and traditions that I came to more fully appreciate the clarity of the UM approach. For me, Do Nothing (or Auto-Focus) was one of those techniques. Over the years, teachings such as Soto Zen’s Shikantaza, Tilopa’s Six Nails, Krishnamurti’s Choiceless Awareness, Dzogchen, and Mahāmudrā have all deepened my understanding, appreciation, and practice of Do Nothing, revealing the quiet rewards of simply being. In this session, we’ll explore some of the cues and pointers that have most helped me recognize what it means to let go of intention, trust awareness, and truly do nothing. I look forward to practicing with you. ~ Kevin

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Sunday PM - December 14  ||  1-5pm Pacific / 4-8pm Eastern
How to Be Present in Every Moment

Leader: Lilli Cloud
Type of Program: Foundations
Prerequisites: None
Fee: $20 per person

In elementary school we learned a wondrous lesson – that we had senses, and that we use them to experience the world. And then we mostly forgot about them. But what if you knew that awareness of your sensory experience held the key to your liberation? It is through the senses that we can untangle our suffering and be free, that we experience life as full and rich. See Hear Feel is indeed elementary, and incredibly powerful. It is a Unified Mindfulness foundation for practice in stillness, practice in motion and practice in life. Revisit the world through your senses as it manifests moment by moment, around you, in you and through you.

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Registration Opens November 26
Registration closes december 10