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Mindfulness Meditation Centers offer crystal-clear meditation instruction and guidance at all levels, from beginners with no experience to those interested in advanced retreats and practices. Each center provides high-quality weekly meditation classes, supplemented by both weekend and long-term retreats. We also offer a comprehensive online learning program on the heart of Buddhist philosophy and meditation. Join our online program from anywhere at anytime and access our learning program with live interactive weekly classes, written supplements, quizzes and thousands of recorded classes and retreats.
All of the teachers at the center are accomplished Western practitioners, knowledgable, and have substantial experience in deep meditation retreat. Our teachers provide both group instruction opportunities as well as individual guidance, and focus on essential mindfulness practices from learning non-judgmental attention, stress reduction, calming the mind, to insight meditation and compassion practices.
The principal meditation focus is mindfulness of breathing, breaking the reactive cycle of craving, and recognizing and riding out destructive mental states. All meditations are instilled with loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. As you focus on the heart of the instruction, you will find that your practice deepens and that you have an increasing capacity for focused calm attention, and clarity.
Weekly classes are on-going and each has a purposeful & intentional focus with a changing emphasis of exploratory topic. Classes usually include a guided meditation. Every meditation session begins with development of calm abiding. The second part of the meditation session uses the calm mind as a base for insight and the development of discerning wisdom.
People may enter the classes at any time, with any level of experience, or from any meditation background as the teachings are non-sectarian, non-hierarchical in nature - all are welcome.
Please feel free to contact us with any question you may have, or simply drop in for an evening class to get a firsthand experience. There is no obligation.
Extensive healthcare/wellness programming for continuing education credits and corporate training are also offered.
Latest Blog Posts:
Letter From the New Board of Directors to the Community
Dear MMC Community, Greetings and Metta from the newly formed board of directors. We are writing today to introduce ourselves to you. Christian Strachan, has been with Mindfulness Meditation Centers since 2002, having practiced primarily [...]
Ultimate Love and Compassion
Have you ever sat still with your eyes closed and simply but deliberately watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you ever watched your mind working? Not the content of the thinking, rather just [...]
Special Letter To Our Community
January 29, 2019 To: The Mindfulness Meditation Centers Community, Students and Members, From: Michael Gregory, Founder of MMC and the 2019 MMC Board of Directors Dear members of the MMC community, Warm greetings to [...]
Announced: 2017 Pilgrimage to Nepal and India!
We've just announced our 2017 pilgrimage: Nepal and India, Sept 24 to Oct 7! Please join us on a special trip, led by Michael Gregory and tour guide Amber Tamang. This special two-week tour begins [...]
New Class with Michael Gregory – The Way of the Bodhisattva – Loving Kindness and Compassion
Led this evening by Michael Gregory, St. Petersburg 6-8pm. Tomorrow night in Sarasota 6-8 and Wednesday in Tampa 6:30-8:30. All are warmly welcome regardless of political affiliation or spiritual tradition to open your heart, meditate, [...]
A Holiday Gift for Everyone
A Holiday Gift for Everyone: Love, Compassion, Wisdom ❤️ Beginning Sunday and continuing through January of 2017 all Mindfulness Meditation Centers classes and retreats will have talks and meditations completely focused on the practices [...]