As we step into a fresh year, this five-week series invites you to discover how accessing healthy enjoyment in meditation can be a self-reinforcing practice that keeps us engaged, inspired, and moving forward on the path.
By gently nurturing a sense of wholesome pleasure and joy in the body, heart, and mind, we create a natural foundation for samadhi to deepen and insight to arise. This supports turning toward suffering in an uplifting way, helping us meet life’s challenges with resilience and clarity. Join us and let the joy of practice carry you forward.
- Open to everyone, whether you’re new to meditation or have an established practice.
- Learn to cultivate calm in the body, contentment in the heart, and gladness in the mind. This naturally quiets the hindrances and activates the seven factors of awakening.
- Supported by the four foundations of mindfulness and mindfulness of breathing texts (Satipatthana and Anapanasati).
- Daily Meditation Commitment: minimum of 12 minutes every day for the five weeks of the course. As benefits are felt and meditation becomes an enjoyable habit, then natural motivation follows to continue and increase practice time if desired.
When: Saturdays 10:00 to 11:30am January 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31.
Where: In person at White Heron Sangha Meditation Center.
Please register if you’d like to join us by clicking the Register Here button.
Cost: This course is free with dana accepted.
Questions: email Mick Malotte at mjmalotte@gmail.com
Mick’s passion is in making deep rooted mindfulness practices accessible, relevant, and helpful to those engaged in modern life in order to lessen distress and bring well-being and joy. He has been practicing and studying meditation for 30 years, mostly in the Insight and Mahamudra traditions, with about 500 cumulative days of residential meditation retreat experience. He is married, has two children, two grandchildren and is a retired physician.
Mick was trained as a meditation teacher through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In 2017 Mick completed Spirit Rock’s two and a half year CDL training program where he received instruction on how to lead dharma practices from Bhikkhu Bodhi, Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Sylvia Boorstein, Tara Brach, Gil Fronsdal and many others.
Mick leads a Spirit Rock affiliated mindfulness sitting group at the White Heron Sangha in San Luis Obispo on Wednesday evenings.
He has also been trained through UCSD to lead secular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction courses and is a certified MBSR instructor. He teaches MBSR courses several times a year in the San Luis Obispo area.
Additionally, Mick trained at the University of Rochester with Ronald Epstein to lead mindfulness practices for healthcare professionals and graduated from their Mindful Practice Facilitator Training. Mick now leads mindfulness trainings in person and virtually at academic medical centers around the country including UCSF, UCLA, University of Washington, Baylor University and many others. He is an instructor at the UCSF Center for Mindfulness in Surgery.