UCLA Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPS) are the signature educational programs of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. These six-week class series, taught by Dr. Ali, are offered in the city of Claremont and La Verne, CA.
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Dr. Ali, of Wise Heart Mindfulness, is an authorized affiliated MAPs teacher with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior.
Wise Heart Mindfulness offers UCLA MARC’s, MAPs classes in the city of Claremont and La Verne, Ca. MAPs are secular, evidence-based mindfulness practices rooted in neuroscience and psychology. Mindfulness is a powerful means to be present in your life.
"I delight in seeing students and clients cultivate their innate human capacity to connect with the experience of calm, ease, well-being, and emotional self-regulation. Mindfulness is a direct first-person investigation into the architecture of our own inner landscape. The more gently we come to awareness and accept and befriend this inner landscape, the more kindness, compassion, equanimity and emotional intelligence we manifest into the worlds we inhabit.” – Dr. Ali |
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic all offerings listed below have been paused to ensure for the safety of our mindfulness community and to support efforts to stem the pandemic. This is a good time to lean even more earnestly into our mindfulness practice. For free guided meditations please click on UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) at https://www.uclahealth.org/marc/. We will resume the 2020 offerings when the time is right. Please check back later. With gratitude, Dr. Ali
2020 Offerings
- Jan 4 - May 30 (Saturdays) – Weekly Drop-ins "An Hour of Mindfulness: Calm Mind, Ease, & Well-Being"
- Feb-3 – May 25 (Mondays) – Weekly Drop-ins “Mind, Body, and Spirit” on the Campus of the University of La Verne
- March 21, April 11, April 22 – "Mindfulness in the Garden: A Nurture/Nature Experience" (Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens in Claremont)
- May 6 – June 10 (Wednesdays) - UCLA MAPs 1 - FOR DAILY LIVING
"The Intuitive mind is a sacred gift, the rational mind a faithful servant, we have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." |
"Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find a thousand regions in your mind yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be expert in home-cosmography." |
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