Mindfulness Care Center

life goes up and down
give it a try
in between my once a week appointments with my therapist, i wisely spent time here and took their classes during my most turmoil time of my life.
I recommend every LCSW, Somatic therapist, peer counselors, behaviour therapists, life coach, tantric therapists, group facilitators, corporate leaders, conference hosts, producers, media experts, public figures, parents, going through a marriage, divorce, cancer, HIV patients, about to inherit from a loss of family member, processing a loss, natural disaster, high performance athletes, educators, musicians, poets, authors, publishers, editors, chefs, restoranteers, farmer, lawyer bus driver, truck driver, taxi driver, disabled, manipulated, victims of harsh crimes, suicidal, depressed, bankrupt, in debt… I mean everyone should try a few times.
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Rick does an amazing job. Vipassana/​Mindfulness Meditation really helped me recover from depression and anxiety. All sessions are donation based. I highly recommend checking it out.

IIf you are new to meditation or to Buddhism and would like a small class to «try it on for size» and get grounded, this is an ideal first step. What I find most a treasure about this place however is the deep, «unpacking» they do in their various classes particularly the Fight/​Fright/​Freeze and the Grief workshops or the compassion workshops. People get to «wrestle with their demons» in a safe, small, nurturing space.
This is not to say it’s a primal scream center where anything goes but rather than simply talking with a therapist or a friend, one can be helped to slow down, feel more deeply and ultimately release. Rick is a master at being intuitive, helping people to let go and in what seems like just a few minutes really, amazing amounts of emotional baggage can be gently released so that people leave with new perspectives.
Whether you are the one «doing the work» or watching it, there is much benefit to be gained.
I’ll let their website speak for itself but after attending a number of the programs over the past 2 years I can say that it is not only the best value for the money but that it’s a deeply, wonderful and «newer» treasure in the Bay Area landscape of self help, self realization and a return to what could be called our authentic «Buddha natures»
The space is small, warm, welcoming and despite its God awful civic center like location just off of a Market, it’s a real sanctuary and one where you can «go deep» and surface with some renewed feelings of well being.
So for long time Buddhist practitioners, it’s the perfect adjunct to your regular mediation practice, to take a day long. No, they have not paid me for this and yes, I highly recommend it.