Monthly Guided Meditation Evenings

with Tarika Lovegarden @ Cavallo Point Healing Arts Center

1 st Wednesday of every month from 6:30-7:30pm

Reserve your spot by calling Cavallo Point Healing Arts & Spa: 415.339.4764

Self-compassion transforms limited traits of mind, like self-criticism and feelings of inadequacy, to being at peace with who you are, free of the pressure of trying to be perfect. This meditation guides you deep into compassion: the forgiving nature of your heart, so that you can embrace your imperfections and grow from adversities. As you embrace yourself wholeheartedly, including the parts you wish you could change, you become self-confident.

Instead of obsessing over imperfections and feeling bad about yourself, this meditation practice teaches you how to recognize and celebrate your unique strengths! Through self-compassion you see the whole picture, free of self-devaluing mindsets—a refreshing and delightful perceptive! Perhaps your quirks may not be so bad after all.

5 Keys to a Happier Life

Residential Retreat in Italy

Tarika Lovegarden. Hosted by Osho Miasto. July 10th-14th, 2024

“Whenever someone goes within himself, he is the owner of a treasure that never vanishes. He is drowned in an experience of bliss that is the gratitude of life, the blessedness of life, the attainment of life, and the meaning of life.” OSHO

Who doesn’t want to be happier?!

While it may not be realistic to strive for constant happiness, we can learn to elevate our levels of happiness through these transformative heart meditations, and key findings of positive psychology research.

Many of us seek happiness in external factors by chasing desires, while others seek to find fulfillment within. This 5-day workshop aims to connect you to both the blissfulness of your inner being, while igniting your joy and passion for life!

Each day we will focus on a vital key to a happier life: connection, acceptance, loving awareness, gratitude, and trust. You will be guided through a range of heart meditation techniques, self-awareness methods, chakra breathing, and mindfulness explorations to transform the negative habits that limit your life.

Join us if you would like to:

• Wake up to the blessing of who you are!
• Learn to transform negative emotions and limiting mindsets through meditation.
• Heal feelings of insecurity, self-doubt, and pain of separation to find love within yourself.
• Embrace yourself and others wholeheartedly, including our strengths and imperfections.
• Meet others heart-to-heart as a doorway into the divine to become one with existence.
• Experience profound peace through accepting circumstances beyond our control.
• Shift your perspective of yourself, others, and life through a vertical leap into gratitude.
• Become centered in your innate power and wisdom, as you trust in your destiny and life.

Unplug from a Busy Mind Meditations

Led by Tarika Lovegarden. Hosted by Stanford University, online.

Fridays, August 2nd—30th, 2024 from 12:00-1:00pm PST.

 Our minds are considered to be our most valuable asset, but when incessant thinking, daydreaming, or random thoughts distract us, our own mind can become a barrier to deep peace.

 Research has shown meditation to be effective for stress reduction, emotional self-regulation, improved quality of life, sleep, and behavior change, among other physical and psychological benefits. This five-part online meditation series teaches you the fundamentals of meditation, so that you can learn to unplug from the stresses of a busy mind, transform emotional reactivity, and connect with a personal sanctuary of inner calm.

 You will be guided through several of the most universal meditation techniques, including breathing mindfully, witnessing the mind, and body mindfulness to support you in cultivating a rewarding meditation practice. You will have the opportunity to explore a range of techniques to establish a morning or evening meditation ritual with a variety of 5–25-minute guided meditations to begin your day mindfully, or settle into deep sleep. When practiced regularly, the results of increased awareness can become integrated into your everyday life, easing symptoms of a negative mind, enabling you to think more clearly and creatively, and allowing you to rest when it is time to replenish.

Centering Here-Now Meditation

Led by Tarika Lovegarden @ Cavallo Point Healing Arts Center & Spa

Wednesday, Aug 7th, 6:30-7:30pm

 If you feel like your mind wanders every time you try to meditate or find it hard to settle into inner calm, join us to learn key principles of coming into the moment, using your senses as a doorway. Connect with your true power by learning to live in the moment, instead of wasting your time worrying about the future or regretting the past.

 Centering Here-Now meditation guides you step-by-step to make it easy for you to experience the touted benefits of mindfulness, without rigid discipline. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to quiet your mind to reap the rewards of these timeless practices.

 Tarika Lovegarden will share essential pitfalls and pointers so that you too, can develop a successful practice to access tranquility and draw from ancient wisdom, in any moment.  

Emotional Resilience Meditation

Led by Tarika Lovegarden @ Cavallo Point Healing Arts Center & Spa

Wednesday, Sept 4th, 2024 6:30-7:30 pm 

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. – Dalai Lama

When we are faced with difficulties, it is easy to spiral into negative thinking, anxiety, and stress over circumstances that are out of our control. One tool that is in our control is the practice of meditation, which research has shown to be effective for stress reduction, emotional self-regulation, improved sleep, boosting immunity, mental health, and enhanced well-being.

This guided meditation teaches you how to transform emotional reactivity, shift limiting mindsets, and connect with a personal sanctuary of inner peace. This enlightening approach to life enables you to navigate day-to-day nuisances and respond to adversity from your innate intelligence and strengths.

Embracing Comfort: Power of Acceptance

Led by Tarika Lovegarden @ Cavallo Point Healing Arts Center & Spa

Wednesday, Oct 2nd, 6:30-7:30 pm 

Let’s explore the essence of acceptance to understand it’s vital role in helping you find comfort within yourself, especially when people and situations are not the way you want them to be.

 Learn how acceptance differs from resignation and how it can empower you to respond to your challenges without spiraling into negativity or feeling victimized by life circumstances.

 This guided meditation practice soothes you in moments of angst, bolsters emotional intelligence, and centers you in your innate power and wisdom.

These practical tools expand your capacity to relax with unpredictability and uncertainties, transform unnecessary suffering, and respect people’s different points of view that would otherwise trigger conflict. Honoring yourself and others’ unique perspectives inevitably leads to greater harmony and fulfillment in all types of relationships.

 Embracing the realities of your life, both positive and challenging, enables you to respond wisely and trust that life is giving you everything you need. As the Rolling Stones sang, “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need.” Let’s do this, together!

Living Gratefully:

A Journey to a Fulfilling Life Meditation

Led by Tarika Lovegarden @ Cavallo Point Healing Arts Center & Spa

Wednesday, Nov 6th, 2024 6:30-7:30 pm

Experience how gratitude enables you to cherish each moment and enjoy your relationships, while elevating your life satisfaction.

 In this guided meditation, you will learn to apply science-based gratitude practices and meditation techniques to positively shift your perspective of others, yourself, and how you feel about your life. 

 These uplifting practices clear mindsets of inadequacy, giving you access to strengths that you may have taken for granted, or didn’t even know you had!

 As you cultivate this valuable virtue and learn to appreciate what you have, you naturally feel content, which opens you to receive even more. Join us to discover new inner resources and cherish the many blessings that are being showered on you, each moment. There’s no need to postpone your happiness by wishing things would change or by discounting your achievements. Join us to embrace gratitude as your teacher to find joy and fulfillment here-now!

Release and Renew: Letting Go Meditation

Led by Tarika Lovegarden @ Cavallo Point Healing Arts Center & Spa  

 Wednesday, Dec 4th, 2024 from 6:30-7:30 pm

This guided meditation practice gets to the heart of one of our biggest challenges: letting go. Whether you grapple with attachments, desires, or expectations you place upon yourself or others, we can all benefit from applying this ancient mindfulness tool to our lives. Tarika Lovegarden has designed this special evening to teach you how-to see through veils of overwhelming or confusing emotional states to dissolve unnecessary suffering and find peace.

You may be carrying grudges or emotional weight against yourself or someone in your life. Perhaps you dwell on situations that feel unfair or unresolved. We typically hold onto resentments to protect ourselves from getting hurt again, but that often makes us even more susceptible to repeating our mistakes.

Holding onto to the past blinds us to what is happening here-now, which disconnects us from our innate intelligence and wisdom. Join us to become free of the past and learn to live in the moment to become happy and fulfilled!