Registration is Open:
Dharma Practice for Everyday Life meets on two different days:
7-Wednesdays (10/28 – 12/16); from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM, (PT) (Nov 25 Off for Thanksgiving)
or
7-Thursdays (10/29 – 12/17); from 7- 8 PM, (PT)(Nov 26 Off for Thanksgiving)
Convert to your local time: select Los Angeles, your city, and your class date
Fee: $140 for seven one-hour sessions, live on Zoom
*FREE for active participants in the MLO Professional Practitioner Certification process.
“ When we are trained in wisdom, compassion, and peacefulness, we all do better.” Dr. Manijeh Motaghy
Overview
Dharma Practice For Everyday Life course is comprised of seven one-hour dharma check-in sessions. During each session the instructor or participants will introduce a topic for practice and cultivation. For those who have an interest in Buddhist teachings, would like to have a community to practice with and receive guidance on how to make those teachings work in various aspects of life. To learn more about MLO click here.
Topics may include but not limited to:
- Meditation in various postures and topics
- Understanding the obstacles to meditation and how to remove them
- Buddhist teachings including the Four Noble Truths, Karma, and various other core teachings – how MLO can resolve some challenges and obstacles for progress
- Dharma applications in personal and professional life, including relationships, work, and aging
- Science of the brain and how our wiring is both an advantage and disadvantage to spiritual progress
- The matters of the heart, including compassion, self-love, equanimity, and forgiveness
- Prior knowledge of meditation or Buddhist teaching not required.
- To have full access to the MLO lessons and methodology purchase, It’s Not Easy to Be Human: A Compassionate Journey and Guide to Optimize Human Potential, Achieve Fulfilment, Systemic and Ecological Well-Being
Ways Dharma Practice for Everyday Life
Can Resolve Personal & Global Issues.
Dr. Manijeh Motaghy has over two decades of Buddhist and meditation practice including 18 (ten-day) silent retreat practice. She has designed and implemented 129 day-long retreats and taught countless Budhist-based courses, workshops and confrences.
Manijeh is an Organizational Psychologist and UCLA Authorized Mindfulness teacher. She is certified by NYU InnerMBA in creating Conscious Teams and Leaders. She has trained teams and executives at fortune 500 companies such as Disney, Health Net, and Kaiser. She has designed and implemented hundreds of courses and retreats, taught thousands of people, published hundreds of blogs, and spoken at numerous conferences and summits and universities.
Most importantly, Manijeh shares how she learned to heal herself and her own childhood traumas and gained optimal inner peace and joy.
Manijeh’s ongoing personal practice, development, and Mindful Life Optimization Methodology continue to have a real positive impact on her students, clients, and the global community.
She is an AI Enthusiast and a contributor on the Planet Positive 2030 project for Stanford Advanced Technology for a Sustainable Planet, offering recommendations on how to address human transformation in order to address climate change globally.
Studying Life Optimization with Manijeh, I’ve become a better leader and manager by integrating qualities of empathy, loving kindness, self-compassion, and equanimity into the workplace. My insomnia, stress, anxieties, and self-doubts have greatly diminished. I feel far more patient, aware and comfortable with myself.
~ Meryl Lander, VP of Operations, Global Tech Company
Understanding my mental patterns and expectations has expanded my horizon, from hopelessness to hopefulness. Watching the real me emerge, I am encouraged to expand out of my comfort zone, blossoming into living life fully.
~ Bonnie Janofsky, Composer
I am forever in debt to Manijeh. Her teachings have empowered me to push the boundaries of my comfort zone. My life has been immensely enriched. The practice of cultivating wisdom and wholesome qualities has brought me peace and happiness. Manijeh’s wide range of topics have increased my awareness and love for all living beings and our environment.
~ Randy Shultz, Entrepreneur
Dates and Times to Pick From:
7-Wednesdays (10/28 – 12/16); from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM, (PT) (Nov 25 Off for Thanksgiving)
or
7-Thursdays (10/29 – 12/17); from 7- 8 PM, (PT)(Nov 26 Off for Thanksgiving)
Select your city, and the class date to check your local start time
Fees: $140/seven sessions
*FREE for active participants in the MLO Professional Practitioner Certification process.