UCLA Mindful

08/16/2025

Tailor fuel to your workout results with the latest nutrition guidance from UCLA Health’s experts.💪 Learn about the best pre-session meals and snacks, whether your focus is strength training or cardio:

08/14/2025

If you are wondering why allergies feel worse this season, the latest data may provide an answer.🤧 Learn how the record-breaking pollen counts this year from UCLA Health’s Dr. Eve Glazier and Dr. Elizabeth Ko as we Ask the Doctors:

08/13/2025

Fatigue is more than just burning the candle at both ends. It might be that your iron levels are quietly dipping. Here’s what UCLA Health experts say to watch for:

08/10/2025

Polycystic o***y syndrome (PCOS) isn’t just about reproductive health — it can also impact your heart ❤️. Discover how this condition may increase your risk for cardiovascular issues and what you can do to protect your health:

08/07/2025

08/06/2025

Diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at 34, Elissa Kalver found expert care at UCLA and launched WeGotThis.org, the first cancer gift registry, to support others and promote care that values both survival and quality of life.

08/01/2025

The LA wildfires that occurred this year may have long-term health effects that we're just beginning to understand.

Join the UCLA Wildfire Research Registry to be part of new studies tracking those impacts. Your input is valuable:

✅ Sign up once.
🔬 Choose your studies.
🌎 Shape the future of health research.
Join the registry now: ucla.in/wildfire-registry

08/01/2025

Once declared eliminated in the U.S., measles is now making a troubling comeback. An outbreak in West Texas earlier this year helped ignite the increase in measles cases, with more than 1,200 cases reported so far this year. Learn more from UCLA Health experts about the causes and how you can help keep you and your family safe:

07/31/2025

Off the mound, but always on when it comes to heartwarming visits. 💙⚾ When Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Landon Knack visited our UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center Infusion Center, he made the day a little less ordinary, bringing surprises and smiles.
UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

07/29/2025

At UCLA Health, innovation drives everything we do. For 36 consecutive years, we’ve earned a place on the U.S. News and World Report Honor Roll, and this year, we’re proud to be ranked #1 in both Los Angeles and California, with national recognition in 10 specialties and high performance across all categories.

But our journey doesn’t end here. We’ll keep on pushing boundaries, keep on raising the bar in health care and keep on rising.

Learn more: https://ucla.in/3S82CwA

07/26/2025

UCLA Health is scaling new heights by using patient-specific 3D‑printed bone models to plan orthopedic surgeries. Orthopedic surgeon and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA professor, Dr. Andrew Jensen, is an early adopter of the technology and says it helps improve surgical outcomes. Learn how this innovation is reshaping surgical precision and patient outcomes:

07/26/2025

A gifted aerialist who once dazzled crowds at Disneyland, Rachel is back in full-flight after reconstructive surgery. Her torn biceps tendon from April 2024 threatened her career, but UCLA Health’s surgical team helped her reclaim every twist, turn, and swing. Read about her being honored as a Laker for a Day and her triumphant return to performance: https://ucla.in/4f4djdM

Los Angeles Lakers

04/23/2025

Free Weekly Meditation Class with Diana Winston and Guests

Join UCLA Mindful’s Director, Diana Winston, and other guest teachers live-online for a weekly opportunity to practice together and learn about different aspects of mindfulness. Each week we will explore a new theme or topic in mindfulness. Topics may include self-compassion, working with judgments, obstacles to meditation, dealing with difficult emotions, mindfulness in challenging times, the spectrum of awareness, and much more.

Each class will include a guided meditation, lecture, time for questions, and exercises related to the theme. Guest teachers will also visit the class. Check weekly for the schedule.

All levels of practice experience are welcome!

No need to register, just drop in any week, but please come to the full 90 minutes.

Upcoming Class Schedule:
April 23- Diana Winston

April 30- Special Event:
Film Showing of Three Short Mindfulness Films about Kids, Teens, and Mindfulness and Talk-Back with the Director, Julie Bayer Salzman

“Just Breathe”, “Release”, and “Into Light” are the first of three films in the Mindful Shorts series by filmmaker Julie Bayer Salzman. “Just Breathe” is an introduction to mindfulness with kindergarteners as teachers; “Release” offers middle-school kids a lesson in mindful breathing to help alleviate their stress and anxiety; and “Into Light” features four teens who use mindfulness tools to navigate depression. All three films, though designed with particular age groups in mind, are universal in their function.

We'll shorten our meditation to 15 minutes and then watch the films, followed by a discussion with the director on mindfulness for kids and teens, youth mental health, and the role of filmmaking in sharing mindfulness.

03/26/2025

UCLA Mindful is proud to present this six-week immersive course with Mitra Manesh, designed to help you move beyond survival mode and step into a more intentional, conscious way of living.

Built on the pillars of mindfulness and real-world application, each session includes:

📌Guided mindfulness practices to strengthen presence and awareness
📌Interactive teachings that bridge wisdom and daily life.
📌Live coaching and Q&A for personalized learning and support

🗓️Sundays, March 30 - May 4, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm PT

🎥 Recording available for registered participants

💵 Financial Assistance available

02/27/2025

Join us today online via Zoom and every week either in person at the Billy Wilder Auditorium or live-online. Thursdays 12:30-1pm, PT.

Thursdays not good for you? We now have free drop-ins Monday through Thursday every week!

Looking forward to practicing with you.

10/30/2024

✨ Need a midweek reset? ✨

Whether you’re at work, at home, or posted up at your favorite coffee shop, you can drop in anywhere for a mindful moment with UCLA Mindful and Diana Winston! 🌿💻

🗓 Every Wednesday
🕓 4 PM - 5:30 PM Pacific Time
📍 On Zoom

Join us each week for a FREE mindfulness session — open to all levels. Recharge, reconnect, and bring a little more calm to your day, right from wherever you are.

Tap the link in bio to join us 🌟 See you there!

09/27/2024

Mindfulness, Science, and Space

Mindfulness - Coming to a planet near you! 🤓

09/10/2024

Happy Tuesday UCLA Mindful Community 😃

Join us today (and every Tuesday) for a FREE drop-in Meditation class at Santa Monica Medical Center.

Facilitated by our knowledgeable and creative TMF grads 🫶🏼 .khetarpal and others!

Drop-Ins are available to staff, patients, and general public. All are welcome!

12:30-1pm
Santa Monica Hospital Auditorium
1250 16th St, Santa Monica, CA

07/29/2024

Dear Community,

Thank you so much for your patience during these past months when MARC has been undergoing a hiatus, a transition, and a restructuring process. We wanted to update you with the latest information.

As of 2024, the MARC remains at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience, where it is administratively housed in the Norman Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology.
Due to financial restructuring, Diana Winston and Serena Hoenig have migrated to the UCLA Healthcare System to create a new mindfulness education center, UCLA Mindful.
We thank you for your continued support to our organizations.

Stay tuned for exciting offerings coming from UCLA Mindful. Subscribe or view our newsletter by clicking link in bio.

08/01/2023

Journaling is a great way of reflecting on your daily life, habits, and practice. Try these prompts:

What practices do you think benefit your overall wellbeing most?

List out the specific benefits you notice.

Do you look forward to those practices?

What gets in the way of practice?

07/28/2023

Register here: https://www.uclahealth.org/programs/marc/daylongs

MARC's daylong retreats are designed to benefit both beginners and those with an existing mindfulness practice.

Beginners benefit from teacher support and the multitude of ways mindfulness meditation is available during a daylong retreat. Participants often enjoy the balance of weaving lecture with guided meditation to enable a longer period of practice.

More advanced meditators report a deeper concentration during supportive group practice all while learning new approaches to add to their toolbox of practice techniques.

No matter your level of experience, daylong retreats are a great addition- or start- to your meditation practice.

07/27/2023

Start by taking one breath with awareness.

07/26/2023

Did You Try Meditating for the First Time During COVID-19?

If you meditated for the first time between March 2020 and January 2022, would you be willing to share your experiences?

Hello, my name is Carol Beckerman. My doctoral study explores the motivations behind millions of people turning to meditation during the pandemic. You can learn more at meditationduringpandemic.org and find out if you qualify to take a brief survey (10-20 minutes). The survey is completely anonymous.

Learning more about the motivation to meditate will help inform meditation teachers, app developers and healthcare professionals about the underlying reasons why people turned to this practice during a global crisis.

Your time and the sharing of your experience is very much appreciated. If you know anyone who qualifies, please share this invite. meditationduringpandemic.org

07/07/2023

Equanimity is a state of balance, even-mindedness, a sense of stability and calm amidst the changing nature of life.

We all have had access to it many times in our lives, and it can also be cultivated. It can be cultivated through noticing that things change (“this too shall pass”), mindfulness practice in general, and through a specific equanimity practice described in the image.

Equanimity can seem like dispassion, disconnection, or apathy, but true equanimity is a deeply connected state of mind. One can be passionate yet recognize the truth of things “as they are.”

Having equanimity does not make us inactive. We can still engage in actions for justice, but do it from a mind of equanimity.