Tag archives: spirituality
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 late, lamented Lucidity Festival is long gone from its residency at Live Oak Camp. Launched in 2012, the successful festival was swamped by the inordinate rainy season in 2023, and then forced to cancel by fire concerns after moving to June for the 2024 fest. The 2025 Lucidity Festival, which was supposed to relocate […]
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 […]
Third-generation Montecito resident Taran Collis’ passion for wellness and spiritual education runs deep in her family. Her grandmother, June Christensen, taught “Moving Consciously” at Adult Ed and Santa Barbara High School. Her grandfather, Mervin Lane, was an English professor who taught yoga and tai chi at SBCC. Before 2018, Collis, a certified Yoga Therapist and […]
Meditation is marvelous and yoga is yummy, but a new method of coping and connecting can be welcome during particularly challenging times. “Singing the Bones” features a musical collaboration with the audience that weaves together diasporic traditions through story and song from the three song leaders. Lydia Violet Harutoonian, a Persian American Bay Area violinist […]
Veteran Santa Barbara meditation leader Radhule Weininger’s Mindful Heart Programs has launched a new series for those who want to build their inner resilience via lecture, discussion, and connections with others and the natural world. The seven-step Deep Resilience program was catalyzed by the turbulent times we are living in, when many of us need […]
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 […]
Stop, hey, what’s that sound? Oh wait, there aren’t any. Save maybe for the gentle whoosh of air going in and out of your lungs, or the chirping of birds in the trees, everything is pretty much quiet. Hopefully, your mind, too. The outer silence is what allows us to come to inner quiet, a […]
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 […]
Dr. John Philip Newell is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on Celtic spirituality, a self-described “wandering teacher” who follows the ancient path of many lone teachers before him in the Celtic world, seeking the well-being of the world. Newell’s teaching is known for combining the head and the heart, the intellectual and the […]
In the wake of the devastating L.A. fires, it seems an especially poignant moment to pause and take time to reflect on our relationship with the land. For Alexis Slutzky, MA, MFT, a longtime local who works as a mentor, facilitator and educator in a wide variety of depth-oriented practices with a focus on cultivating […]
The call-and-response singing of devotional music known as Kirtan can be a joyous experience, but it’s also a healing one that can break down barriers between people. So suggests Darren Marc, the devotional Kirtan artist and singer-songwriter whose eclectic musical career includes more than 30 original songs featured in film and television shows. For Marc […]
Sunburst Sanctuary and Organic Farm, the longtime center for holistic learning, healing and conscious living created and overseen by a cooperative community, jumps right into the new year with a meditation retreat from Thursday-Sunday, January 9-12, at the Lompoc center. The retreat offers an immersive opportunity to learn scientific meditation practices in the lineage of […]
Daniel Jensen will be officially installed as the James R. and Eleanor S. Allder professor of science and technology in a formal, public ceremony Friday, Nov. 8th at 10:30 am in Murchison Gym. Jensen has directed Westmont’s burgeoning engineering program since it began in fall 2021. Jensen will speak at a panel discussion, “Considering Technology, […]
This summer, Chabad of Montecito will offer a course designed to demystify the concept of life after death. The course, titled “Journey of the Soul,” was developed by Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) and will be taught by Rabbi Chaim Loschak. The six-session series began on Tuesday, August 15, at 7 pm, inviting attendees to […]
Steve L. Porter, the new senior research fellow and Executive Director of Westmont’s Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture, offers his inaugural lecture Friday, April 28, at 3:30 pm in the Global Leadership Center. The talk, “Knowing Christ Today: The Shape of Christian Spiritual Formation in the Academy and Church for the Sake of the […]
Steve L. Porter, a longtime professor of spiritual formation, theology, and philosophy, is the new senior research fellow and executive director of Westmont’s Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture. The institute seeks to support a new generation of leaders in the area of Christian spiritual formation and to establish this discipline as a domain of […]
Adam Belt explores the point where art, science, and spirituality converge in an exhibition, “Adam Belt: Wish You Were Here,” September 1 through November 5 at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. Belt, who was born in Seattle and grew up in Albuquerque, began his career as a landscape painter before shifting his interests to […]
