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Music & Meditation Santa Barbara continues its second season at Weinman Hall at the Music Academy of the West on Friday afternoon October 23 with well-known locally-based clarinetist Nancy Mathison joining and pianist-artistic director Antonio Artese for an intimate one-hour program. After a guided meditation and period of intentional silence led by Jessica Kolbe, Mathison […]

It’s been about two years since Damian Gallagher last offered his Authentic Relating Group (ARG) events at Yoga Soup, ending a more or less monthly tradition where participants could simply come to the yoga studio and find themselves painlessly easing into connection with others in the room. ARG offers a unique opportunity to connect deeply […]

Classical and jazz pianist Antonio Artese had a straightforward reason for creating the Music & Meditation Santa Barbara series last December. The Italian-born musician is looking for a better breed of audience. “We need to develop a more mindful listening approach to music,” he said. “It’s been on my mind for many, many years, seeing […]

Santa Barbara City College’s School of Extended Learning – the latest name for the ever-changing but still beloved programming once known as Adult Ed – continues to offer literally hundreds of classes across a wide spectrum of fields, almost all of them at the ridiculously low price of absolutely free. But don’t be fooled into […]

Yoga studios abound all through town and the Santa Barbara environs. But not all of them offer events and classes that aren’t about asanas. Yoga Soup’s been one of the big players ever since Founder Eddie Ellner opened the space as a hybrid yoga studio, bookstore, and community gathering space 25 years ago. Indeed, the […]

Opportunities abound in Ojai, the longtime oasis for retreat, reflection, and personal growth, starting this weekend with “Be With Us,” slated for 7 pm on April 10 at Ojai Underground. The interactive evening of music, storytelling, and soulful connection is spearheaded by Ojai’s own Kathlyn “Katie” Hendricks, the bestselling author of Conscious Loving, co-lead of […]

Music & Meditation – founded by Santa Barbara pianist and composer Antonio Artese in collaboration with Carpinteria-based meditation guide and qigong/tai chi teacher Jessica Kolbe – had a trial launch last November at Weinman Hall on the campus of the Music Academy of the West featuring the two founders. After selling out the initial show, […]

Local community song leaders Heather Stevenson, Alison Zuber, and Amisha Sera Luna are coming together for a special winter solstice song celebration December 19, collaborating to teach and lead participatory call-and-response songs meant to invoke a sense of community and joy. Winter solstice is a time of honoring the darkness and welcoming the slow return […]

Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks, the self-help/personal growth/relationship transformation and body-mind workshop leaders, authors of more than 35 books (including the best-seller Conscious Loving), and all-around paradigm-shifting pioneers in the conscious loving and body intelligence fields, based their publishing endeavors and other operations in Montecito for years before relocating to the mountains of Ojai almost two […]

Bruce Davis wrote his first book, The Magical Child Within You, back in the mid-1970s, in the process penning one of the earliest works exploring how accessing the inner child can lead to greater peace. It was the start of a lifetime journey into meditation and stillness. “Once you start rediscovering your inner child, you […]

Carpinteria-based Jessica Kolbe, a Qigong/Tai Chi teacher and meditation guide, teams up with Santa Barbara pianist Antonio Artese for the debut of a series of intimate events where guided meditation meets live classical music. This journey of silence, breath, and sound, invites participants to quiet the mind to let the music in more deeply, and […]

Mindful Heart Programs’ Founder Dr. Radhule Weininger is teaming up with Santa Barbara Empathy Circles for a one-day retreat at Santa Barbara Middle School’s aptly named Lotus Theater on Saturday, July 12. Combining meditation with empathy circles, the event serves as an opportunity to put into almost immediate practice the compassion that is at the […]

Daily commuters between Lompoc and Santa Barbara may not feel this way, but the drive along the coast on the CA101 west of Goleta, and then through the rural areas heading toward Lompoc, can be meditative on its own. Even better, Sunburst Sanctuary shows up several miles outside of Lompoc, and tensions seem to fade […]

The summer session at SBCC’s School of Extended Learning – known fondly as Adult Ed in days of yore – is already underway, with a number of classes geared toward raising the spirit, awareness, or body-mind intelligence – both in person and online – with weekly or one-day options. The good news is that it’s […]

The Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Buddhist Center has been offering a high-quality curriculum of instruction in Buddhist meditation practice and philosophy ever since its founding in 1997 at the direction of Shamar Rinpoche. Generations of students have come to learn and practice in a modern, non-sectarian environment focused on authentic Buddhist teachings taught and practiced […]

Eddie Ellner didn’t realize he was building what would become a local institution when – 20 years ago – he had the idea to create his own yoga studio just off State Street and a few blocks from the beach. But he knew that yoga would be the foundation.  He’d discovered the practice years before […]

Dive into a unique Reiki-infused sound bath with guided hypnosis in Yoga Soup’s ongoing Sunday Soundscape series every third Sunday of the month (February 16; $35). The 75-minute journey with Danielle Elese focuses on harmonizing our internal waters, the element that comprises most of our bodies. Sound has a profound impact on water, affecting its […]