December 11 - 13, 2026

Registration opens November 25 and closes December 9
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Friday PM - December 11||  5-7pm Pacific / 8-10pm Eastern
Exploring Flow

Leader: Preethi Balan
Type of Program: Foundations
Prerequisites: None
Fee: $10 per person 

Our body is constantly alive with sensations of movement, vibration, and change. In this session, we explore Feel Flow, a Unified Mindfulness practice that invites us to notice the changing nature of body sensations — whether subtle tingling, pulsing, waves, or movement. Through gentle awareness, we learn to experience sensations as they arise, change, and pass, cultivating greater presence, equanimity, and ease. We will also explore “Recycle the Reaction” — learning how to bring mindful awareness to reactions that arise during practice, turning them into opportunities to deepen our mindfulness.

  • Session Flow:

    • First 60 minutes: Guided Feel Flow practice

    • Next 10 minutes: Brief discussion and reflection on the practice experience

    • Final segment: Exploring and practising Recycle the Reaction

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Saturday AM - December 12  ||  5-9am Pacific / 8am-12pm Eastern
From Words to Stillness: A Secular Exploration of Lectio Divina Through Unified Mindfulness

Leader: Thomas Stenzel
Type of Program: Special Theme
Prerequisites: Some familiarity with the See, Hear, Feel family of techniques and the Do Nothing Technique
Fee: $20 per person

Explore the ancient contemplative practice of Lectio Divina through the lens of Unified Mindfulness. This secular, experiential workshop introduces four movements—reading, reflecting, responding, and resting—using See, Hear, Feel, and Do Nothing techniques. Discover how words can become gateways to deeper awareness, stillness, and meaningful engagement with everyday life.

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Saturday PM - December 12  ||  10am-2pm Pacific / 1-5pm Eastern
Intention: The Nuts and Bolts

Leader:  Malin Rozon
Type of Program: Special Theme
Prerequisites: None required, but helpful to already have some familiarity with mindfulness broadly speaking.
Fee: $20 per person 

Everyone makes decisions, small and large, all day every day. Some of those decisions are more unconscious (wait, when did I pick up my cell phone and start scrolling?), others are excruciatingly conscious (should I quit my job or not?). Mindfulness works with intention because to practice you typically must intentionally direct your mind to an object (or different objects) in a careful way over and over again. While you do this, you gradually gain more access to the nuts and bolts of how the mind works, and the same time you develop the skill to get more results with a "lighter touch" of intention - concentration for example becomes more available with less effort.

In this session, we will be exploring intention using a variety of techniques from Unified Mindfulness, touching on all four of the major technique quadrants. The goal of the session will be to become more intimately familiar with the ways conscious and subconscious intentions create ripples of experience and behavior in/via the mind, to be able to work more skillfully with intention and effort in formal mindfulness practice, and to walk away with strategies for leveraging this skill in everyday life. This session may be particularly relevant for anyone who experiences executive disfunction - or as I like to frame it, difficulty making it consistently from sincere intention to completed action.

No specific prerequisite experience is required, but the practices in this session do rely on the ability to observe your own experience carefully from moment to moment, so some previous experience practicing mindfulness is recommended.

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Sunday AM - December 13 ||  8am-12pm Pacific / 11am-3pm Eastern
Getting Unfixated: Exploring Auto & Turn Back Techniques

Leader:  Colleen Godfrey
Type of Program: Special Theme
Prerequisites: All are welcome to attend, but meditations will be geared to intermediate to advanced practitioners.
Fee: $20 per person

Learn to deconstruct the common pitfall of the Fixated Witness—revealing it to be a subtle blend of sensory contractions and expansions—before dropping all effort into Non-Intentional Focus. Through a structured progression of guided sits, walking practice, and clarifying exercises, you will learn to transition from tracking sensory content to resting in the globally unfixated, non-dual source of awareness itself.

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Sunday PM - December 13  ||  1-5pm Pacific / 4-8pm Eastern
Beyond Goals: What Makes Life Meaningful?

Leader: Jenny Diakolambrianos
Type of Program: Special Offering
Prerequisites: Some familiarity with the See, Hear, Feel family of techniques, especially Focus In (See, Hear, Feel In), Feel Good and Do Nothing techniques
Fee: $20 per person

Are we pursuing goals that genuinely contribute to our happiness, or simply following ideas of success we've absorbed from the world around us?

As we approach the new year, let's explore the relationship between happiness, awareness, and personal growth through Shinzen Young's Happiness Grid and ideas from Robert Greene's new book, "The Law of the Sublime".

Together, we'll explore three dimensions:
1) Happiness: What do we truly want from life? Discover different dimensions of well-being through Shinzen's Happiness Grid.
2) Awareness: How much of our striving is driven by habitual patterns and expectations?
3) The Sublime: Are we making room for wonder, connection, creativity, and experiences that go beyond measurable achievements?

Through guided mindfulness practices, experiential exercises, and personal reflection, we'll explore the space between traditional goal-setting and discovering what becomes possible when we stop striving. Let's approach the new year with clarity and purpose.

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Registration opens November 25
Registration closes December 9