Please join us for our first MINDFUL ALL-DAY OF THE 2025 YEAR. This day-long commuter retreat is located on a private acreage in Elfin Forest. It has been pain-stakingly prepared and stewarded by Pete and Lisa Kirchmer to share with EMC. A day of mindful and compassionate awareness you do not want to miss. Day will be guided by Founding Teacher, Diana Shimkus and others.

Please go to: http://www.encinitasmindfulness.org/retreat-registration to sign up!!

WE LOOK FORWARD TO PRACTICING TOGETHER IN THE NEW YEAR.

Please join EMC as we prepare a meal with all the fixings for our local friends in need at the UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Please contact di at: dialtytan@aol.com to select an item to prepare, serve and share with our community.

Please join us in contributing essential food items to the LOCAL ST. ANDREW’S FOOD PANTRY, in Encinitas. This church feeds over 250 families each week and provides basic food supplies for those in need. Please help us help our community at: http://www.encinitasmindfulness.org/emc-giving

Please join us for the MBSR 8-week course on Fridays from 10:30-12:30 PM during the spring season and before our SPRING RETREAT. TO SIGN UP: http://www.everydaymind.com/mbsr-course

Please join us for our last donation to the ST. ANDREW’S FOOD PANTRY for 2024. This is a time of year when families need more resources than usual. Please offer what you can. We are accepting food items and monies directed to: http://www.encinitasmindfulness.org/emc-giving

Please donate monies or food for our next ST. ANDREW’S FOOD PANTRY DELIVERY ON Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. GO TO: HTTP://WWW.ENCINITASMINDFULNESS.ORG/EMC-GIVING

Please contribute to our every other month compassionate action with St. Andrew’s Food Pantry. You can donate $$ by going to: http://www.encinitasmindfulness.org/emc-giving or Venmo at: @EMCmindfulness

Please join us for our summer MINDFUL ALL-DAY, which will be our only summer mindful retreat day before September, 2024 and our multi-day retreat at Questhaven in October 12-19 2024. Please go to: http://www.encinitasmindfulness.org/retreat-registration to sign up. Full and half-day options available. Full day from 9:00 am - 4:30 pm for retreat cost of $60. Half-day from 9:00 am - 12:30 pm or 1:15 pm - 4:30 pm for cost of $40. Retreat costs do not include teacher dana for the day.

DEEP LISTENING FOR PEACE RETREAT
SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2024, 9AM-5PM
LA JOLLA MEETING HOUSE
Hosted by: La Jolla Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) 
Retreat led by Diana Shimkus
Registration required; suggested $55 per person cost and “pay as you’re led” option.
Link to: Registration form and more info.

Please join us for our SPRING MINDFUL ALL-DAY/HALF-DAY at the Dome of Pete Kirchmer in San Marcos, CA. A special opportunity to enjoy the beautiful and serene space in half/day-long mindfulness practice together. ALL WELCOME!!

EMC will be participating in a group volunteer opportunity at St. Andrew’s Church called SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS. Please join us for our compassionate action meditation with SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS, SATURDAY, MAR. 16, 2024 from 9:15-10:00 AM.
WE ARE COLLECTING CLOTHING AND HYGIENE ITEMS TO BRING TO SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS ON MARCH 16.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS HEART!!

SIGN-UP HERE: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0544AFA92AA3FA7-showers#/

We will be scheduling our bi-monthly collection of food donations, money donations and assistance getting the food to St. Andrews for our Tuesday, MARCH.12 drop-off of food items for ST. ANDREW’S FOOD PANTRY in Encinitas. Please contribute food through donation to: http://www.encinitasmindfulness.org/emc-giving or deliver to: 816 Passiflora Avenue, Encinitas, CA…there are bins in front of the garage door. Otherwise, make a financial contribution to: http://www.encinitasmindfulness.org/emc-giving to raise funds for food items that EMC will purchase. We all need to help our unsheltered and under-nourished friends in need.

Please join us for this short and sunny outdoor 5-week abbreviated MBSR CLASS held in Encinitas, CA in a beautiful garden setting. Cost reduced due to shorter course: $300/person. GO TO: http://www.everydaymind.com/mbsr-course to register.

We will be meeting at Pete and Lisa Kirchmer’s Geode, a gorgeous space out in San Marcos, CA. Please register and the address and instructions will be sent to you.
Cost for the day is $50.00. WE HOPE TO BEGIN THIS NEW YEAR WITH YOU!

Please join Diana Shimkus, LCSW as we begin the new year with the 8-week MBSR course. This course was developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn through the Umass Medical Center in 1979 and continues to impact, improve and activate healing and healthful qualities of mind and body to reduce the stressful impacts of our busy every day lives. Please go to:

http://www.everydaymind.com/register

An essential aspect of our daily mindfulness practice is compassionate action towards self and others. Every other month, we make a contribution to the ST. ANDREW’S FOOD PANTRY, ENCINITAS, CA. Please take the time to collect your dry-goods, go to the Dollar Tree and collect some canned items, or donate some money ear-marked for the FOOD PANTRY, and EMC will make the purchase for you. THIS SERVICE PROJECT IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT DURING WINTER MONTHS AND HOLIDAY SEASON!!
There is always a way to contribute. Drop off of items is no later than Tuesday, DECEMBER 13 for delivery to St. Andrew’s on Wednesday, DECEMBER 14, 2022. LOCATION: CARY’S GARAGE TUB..SEE LOCATION INFO.

PLEASE JOIN EMC BOARD, SANGHA MEMBERS AND FRIENDS AFTER SATURDAY SANGHA IN DI’S BACKYARD TO HELP STUFF BACKPACKS FOR LOCAL SENIORS WITH ITEMS PURCHASED AND DONATED BY EMC SANGHA. NO RSVP REQUIRED!!

MINDFUL ALL-DAY AT QUESTHAVEN RETREAT CENTER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2022 FROM 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM. FULL AND HALF-DAY RETREAT AVAILABLE. GO TO: http://encinitasmindfulness.org/retreat-registration

An essential aspect of our daily mindfulness practice is compassionate action towards self and others. Every other month, we make a contribution to the ST. ANDREW’S FOOD PANTRY, ENCINITAS, CA. Please take the time to collect your dry-goods, go to the Dollar Tree and collect some canned items, or donate some money ear-marked for the FOOD PANTRY, and EMC will make the purchase for you. There is always a way to contribute. Drop off of items is no later than Tuesday, OCTOBER 13 for delivery to St. Andrew’s on Wednesday,OCTOBER 12, 2022. LOCATION: CARY’S GARAGE TUB..SEE LOCATION INFO.

MINDFUL ONE-DAY RETREAT: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17; 9:00-4:00 PM. ALL INVITED TO ATTEND: https://www.encinitasmindfulness.org/retreat-registration

Have you been wondering how best to take the next step and deepen your mindfulness practice?

If you have not attended an extended practice period until now, this IN-PERSON OUT-DOOR RETREAT DAY is a perfect opportunity for you.

EMC has gone through exceptional measures to make these opportunities as affordable and accessible as possible.
EMC will be offering a 1-day in-person retreat at QUESTHAVEN RETREAT CENTER, following all current COVID standards and guidelines.
GO TO: https://encinitasmindfulnenss.org/retreat-registration.

Having the collective energies of mindful awareness available during this critical time while being a part but not separate, facilitates the greater awakening, insight and clarity of the truths of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and unreliability that is the mark of all existence. These are essential conditioins of the human experience, existing not only during the CoVid-19 pandemic, but throughout one;s lifetime.

Mindful Awareness allows us to be most skillful while offering us greater calm, wisdom and the open-heartedness needed to abide all life conditions and experience. Within the trainable, growable and always available stillness and silence of retreat practice, we strengthen our capacities for love, knowing and growing within and through the wide-open arms of the community of others who holds us, while we
explore and discover our true selves together. The direct experience of sangha is the lifeblood of all practice, particularly retreat practice, where we are each pushed to our practice edge. Because of the presence and capacities of the collective sangha, we are able to invite deeper levels of practice than on our own, which then inspires and sustains us all.

It is our aspiration that we continue practice together through daily practice and retreat opportunities such as these.  

We look forward to sharing this experience with you.

Learn more about EMC's upcoming 1-day in-person/out-door retreat at the link below:

RSVP/REGISTRATION HERE

Residential Retreats are typically held at Questhaven Retreat Center. However, during this time of “mindful attention” of our holding space for and with each other, we will strictly follow all safety and health protocols during this outdoor retreat.

We love our time “in-dwelling” at Questhaven Retreat Center, which is nestled among chaparral-covered hills in northern San Diego County. The grounds encompass one square mile of coastal wilderness traversed by several miles of nature trails offering hilltop vistas, shaded oak sanctuaries, wayside shrines, seasonal streams, and a variety of wildflowers, birds and wildlife. Wandering these trails, we find release from the stress of outer lives, and come to the stillness and quiet necessary to awaken our inner lives.  

*We are grateful for this space. EMC has no affiliation with Questhaven Spiritual Retreat Center. 

MINDFUL ONE-DAY RETREAT: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17; 9:00-4:00 PM. ALL INVITED TO ATTEND: https://www.encinitasmindfulness.org/retreat-registration

Please join us for this 2-6 day annual fall retreat sponsored by ENCINITAS MINDFULNESS COMMUNITY at QUESTHAVEN RETREAT CENTER, San Marcos, CA. Minimum registration if for at least 2-days as either commuter or resident. The theme of this year’s retreat will be through the teachings of Pema Chodron. A book will be named in August for consideration of the Tuesday Study Group.

PLEASE GO TO: http://www.encinitasmindfulness.org/retreat-registration to sign up! Limited space for residential options are available.

There is no better time for retreat practice than NOW!!