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Mindfulness in Nature

Thank you for visiting this page. Please check back when it is safe to resume in person contact - Post-Covid-19. I look forward to scheduling Mindful Nurture/Nature classes in the great outdoors. 

Mindfulness-in-nature is an especially rich and embodied experience. A gift of self-compassion and kindness that promotes connection, calm, ease, well-being, and an open and spacious heart/mind. Mindfulness-in-nature is a gateway to positive emotions, clarity, equanimity, awe, connection and inter-being. Teachings include practices embodied in the three pillars of mindfulness: focused attention/concentration; open awareness/clarity, and kind intentions. Mindfulness supports our natural capacity to pay attention to our moment to moment experiences with openness and curiosity in a non-judgmental way. Mindfulness-in-nature offers opportunities to practice what Diana Winston, Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center, calls the “spectrum of awareness” - Focused attention/concentration, Investigative Awareness; Choiceless Awareness; and Natural Awareness). For more on the Spectrum of Awareness see Diana’s book The Little Book of Being. 
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet”.  - Thich Nhat Han
The inspirations for “Mindfulness in Nature” is informed by my 1,000+ hours of embodied hiking/walking practice in nature including hiking portions of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain; and the Inca Trail in the Peruvian Andes to Machu Picchu.
Pictures and videos of the Camino de Santiago hike
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Join the Wise Heart Mindfulness community of seekers and practitioners and cultivate your innate human capacity to connect with the experience of calm, ease, well-being, and emotional self-regulation with a gentle and wise heart as your guide. Dr. Ali is a UCLA certified Mindfulness Facilitator trained at the UCLA Semel Institute Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) and is recognized by the International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA) as a Certified Mindfulness Teacher, Professional (CMT-P).
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  • About
    • About Dr. Ali
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    • Testimonials
    • Photo Gallery >
      • Hiking the Camino
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