Well it’s that time of year:  NCAA Basketball, March madness (although March has come and gone so I’m not sure why it’s titled that), The Final Four, etc.  To be honest, that’s really all I know about it.  I no longer own a TV and when I did sports was never my interest.  Yeah sure, I know that a free throw is a point,…

Sensei Mui will present a workshop on the Teaching of the Buddha. This month’s workshop will focus on the Buddha’s analysis of mind. We can analyze the mind by seeing what it does and expose its nature. In the Buddha’s teaching the mind creates Samsāra. Samsāra literally means “wandering-on.” Samsāra is not a place but…

Join us for a breast cancer education seminar hosted by Heartwood Practitioners for the Heartwood Foundation: Women & Cancer Program.  

Written by a long-time Heartwood client: Imagine you are a teenager. High School is starting soon and you’re not sure what to expect. You’re anxious. Hormones – unseen by you – are, nonetheless, flooding through your system, changing your body almost daily. It’s as if you don’t recognize yourself in the mirror anymore…

Gong Lab Saturday, May 2, 2015 7:00pm-9:00pm $25 Pre-registerd, $30 At The Door “For some the experience is meditative, other’s emotional, even transcendent, but in all circumstances it is a powerful and unforgettable event.” Enter a liminal realm where profound clearing and recalibration of the physical, mental, and s…

Many people get depressed during the winter season. The physiological explanations for depression and substances unbalance are varied and it is not my intention to discuss them here. I would like to share my experience with alternative medicine. I have seen patients who have been suffering depression and who are under…

A fundraiser and dance performance entitled “Happiness Is…” by Reveries In Motion April 25 and April 26, 2015 Beginning at 7:00pm both evenings Heartwood Center, in The Skylight Room The performance will benefit the Heartwood Foundation Women and Cancer Program. Heartwood encourages the community of Evanston and surrou…

A Body-Based Meditation Course with Rose Taylor and Ari Goldfield Saturday, April 11 and Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:00 am—5:00 pm both days (Saturday and Sunday, only) “We don’t need to get rid of anything; we don’t need to add anything. Simply experience directly what is actually there—this authenticity will liberate yo…

To go with the flow of experiences and changes that life continually offers requires a flexibility of spirit to adapt to change, to loss and trauma, and to evolution itself. In practice, we ideally flow with life by fully experiencing all the emotional ups and downs that arise during the course of living. Emotions are…

Art Workshop with Dharma Talk and Meditation Sunday, May 31, 2:00pm-5:00pm In this three part workshop we will study, experience and explore the Three Hindrances – ignorance – ill-will and pride, and come to a better understanding of how they effect your life. Both art and Buddhist teachings provide a tool for better u…