
Workshops, Songs & Chants for Emotional & Spiritual Well-Being
Watering the Heart Root Workshops!
Watering the Heart Root explores the intersections of music, mindfulness, and personal growth. The music and workshops blend together the wisdom gained from Mindy’s 35 years of psychotherapy practice, and lifelong personal healing journey, to create a powerful set of tools for emotional and spiritual well-being. Watering the Heart Root is designed to resonate with the human quest for love, authentic connection, social justice, and self-discovery.

Three Workshops to choose from or do as a series!
1) Emotional Well-Being
2) Loving & Appreciating Our Bodies—Just As We Are
3) Spiritual Well-Being
Watering the Heart Root of…
About the 3 Workshops:
Enjoy single ones or do them as a series!
In these Workshops you’ll:
Learn a unique suite of practical tools, strategies, and original songs & chants to help navigate life’s challenges and feel more grounded and self-loving.
Be immersed in an atmosphere of emotional respect and care, with support to be both serious and playful.
Be invited to sing along or meditate on uplifing, soothing songs. All voices are welcome and valued at the workshops——whether or not you sing on key or have a “good” voice.
Learn about highly useful concepts and tools to understand and work with our emotions, and a bit about the science behind these practices.
Get free downloads of the Watering the Heart Root music.
Receive insights on best ways to use positive psychology and avoid toxic positivity.
Soak up teaching stories that inspire healing and growth, culled from Mindy’s 35 years as a psychotherapist and from her personal healing path.
Receive handouts on topics covered.
Create your own affirmation song or statement, with step by step guidance (in longer workshops).
Workshop 1:
Watering the Heart Root of Emotional Well-Being
Two dates to choose from (or sign up for both)!
— Thurs. April 3, 2025 7-9 pm.
In-person (6001 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55410)
— Sat. April 26, 2025 1-3 pm.
In-person (3754 Pleasant Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55409)
An engaging, uplifting workshop of tools, strategies, and original songs & chants to help navigate life’s challenges and grow empowerment, self-compassion, inner peace, gratitude, creativity, and groundedness.
A Unique Suite of:
Original Songs & Chants (sing &/or listen)
Education
Mindfulness
Stories
Discussion
Options for Movement/Drawing/Writing
Get 20% off April 3rd workshop! (Register by 3/30)
Enter code WTHR43 at checkout.
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Dates: Consider one or both!
Two locations (scroll for accessibility details):Thurs. April 3, 2025 7 to 9 pm (Studio TimeOut, 6001 Lyndale Ave. S., Mpls. MN 55410)
Sat April 26, 2025 1-3pm (Center for Performing Arts, 3754 Pleasant Ave. S., Mpls, MN 55409)Cost per workshop: $36 Suggested. Sliding Fee options of $24-, $36-, $49, and $59.
In each workshop:
An engaging, uplifting workshop of tools, strategies, and original songs & chants to help navigate life’s challenges and grow empowerment, self-compassion, inner peace, gratitude, creativity, and groundedness.
Learn a unique suite of practical tools, strategies, and original songs & chants to help navigate life’s challenges and feel more self-loving and grounded.
Be immersed in an atmosphere of emotional respect and care, with support to be both serious and playful.
Explore and discuss wellness and healing info, including some relevant research findings on the neurobiology of emotion, attachment, trauma, and self-compassion.
Absorb info on some highly useful concepts and tools to understand and work with our emotions.
Get free downloads of the Watering the Heart Root music.
Receive insights on best ways to use positive psychology and avoid toxic positivity.
Soak up teaching stories that inspire healing and growth, culled from Mindy’s 35 years as a psychotherapist and from her personal healing path.
Receive handouts on topics covered.
Be invited to sing along, listen to, or meditate on the songs as you prefer. All voices are welcome and valued at the workshops——whether or not you sing on key or have a “good” voice.
Receive the care of covid-safer protocols and guidelines.
Location April 3: 6001 Lyndale Ave. S., (Studio TimeOut) Minneapolis, MN 55419. [Accessibility: ADA accessible parking & meeting room. Bathroom not fully wheelchair accessible.]
Location April 26: 3748 Pleasant Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55409 (Center for Performing Arts).
Free parking in lot and on street. On bus route. [ADA accessible building; handicap parking space can be prearranged.]
Please Note: Current or former psychotherapy clients of mine need to talk with me before registering to discuss whether attending is a good fit with your therapy goals and for other professional boundaries.
Workshop 2:
Watering the Heart Root of Loving & Appreciating Our Bodies—Just as We Are!
Customizable workshops for your organization or social group! Contact Mindy to explore options!
Stigma about bodies (weight, shape, skin tones, abilities, our genders, who we love, ) has been a tactic to control and oppress people for far too long! Come learn practical tools to deepen knowing that you are great as you are! Build resilience against appearance-based worth & preoccupation. Get energized by connecting with self-compassion, authentic strength and your own inner wisdom!
Holistic, Empowering, Educational, Fun, & Engaging!
An experiential workshop for people who want to:
Gain healing and freedom from internalized oppression and stigma that’s based on how our bodies look, love, and function.
Connect with our body’s wisdom and guidance.
Appreciate and respect our bodies.
Empower ourselves with updated research findings.
Strengthen resilience against diet culture’s harmful messages.
Energize each other to pursue our wholeness, goals and desires.
Connect with joy, creativity, and innate worthiness.
A Creative Blend of:
Original Affirmation Songs (sing &/or listen)
Education
Mindfulness
Stories
Discussion
Options for Movement/Drawing/Writing
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Date: Thurs. May 1, 2025 7 - 9 pm
Cost per workshop: $36 Suggested. Sliding Fee options of $24-, $36-, $49, and $59.
Location: 6001 Lyndale Ave. S., (Studio TimeOut) Minneapolis, MN 55419
Free parking in lot and on street. On bus route.
Accessibility: ADA accessible parking & meeting room. Bathroom not fully wheelchair accessible.
Please Note: Current or former psychotherapy clients of mine need to talk with me before registering to discuss whether attending is a good fit with your therapy goals and for other professional boundaries.
Workshop 3:
Watering the Heart Root of Spiritual
Well-Being
-Thurs. May 8, 2025 7-9 pm.
In-person (6001 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55410)
This workshop supports us in recognizing and claiming our spiritual natures. We explore, validate, and deepen our personal spiritual connections. This helps blossom our inner seeds of worthiness, love, compassion, trust, gratitude, intuition, and openness to wise guidance along our paths through life. Designed for folks who a) are “spiritual but not religious”; b) are rooted in a religion they like, or c) haven’t thought much about their spirituality but are curious to explore it. We’ll use music, discussion, anecdotes, and other tools, and strive for a culturally sensitive, inter-spiritual perspective.
Spiritual Well-Being Workshop Topics May Include:
How do we personally experience it?
How is “spiritual” different from “religious”?
What do major world wisdom traditions have in common?
Discussions about possible purpose(s) of life.
What helps build or deepen a personal connection with Spirituality/Mystery/Source/God/Nature?
Avoiding spiritual “bypasses”.
Getting energized to take action for healing the world.
Emotions and spirituality.
A Unique Mix of:
Original Songs & Chants (sing &/or listen)
Education
Mindfulness
Stories
Discussion
Options for Movement/Drawing/Writing
FAQs about Spiritual Well-Being Workshops
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A) Mindy shares Brene Brown’s view, that “Spirituality (is) a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. (It is) the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves—a force grounded in love and compassion. For some of us that’s God, for others it’s nature, art, or even human soulfulness.” (p. 151 Brown, C. B. (2012). Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. New York, N.Y.: Gotham.)
B) Mindy views spirituality as broader than any particular religion and not dependent on having a religion. Everyone has an innate capacity to experience universal energies of love, wisdom, and guidance--called by many different names and beyond our full comprehension--that are available within, around, and to each of us. She offers the workshops and songs from her belief that deepening our authentic spiritual connection leads humanity away from alienation, isolation, and exploitation, toward a universal ethic of compassion, cooperation, care, and justice for every person.
C) Mindy’s music and workshops focus inter-spirituality—the commonalities among major world wisdom traditions and the essence underlying and beyond religions (e.g. The Eight Points of Agreement” from the Snowmass Conference facilitated by Father Thomas Keating; and Ken Wilbur’s Integral Spirituality). She resonates with Rabbi Rami Shapiro’s description of spirituality: “…the two-fold truth of the interdependence and dignity of all life within the greater nondual aliveness of God, Nature, Universe, Tao, Mother, Allah, Brahman, YHVH, and so on, and the universal validity of the Golden Rule: what is hateful to you, do not do to another.” (From Substack, Ask Rabbi Rami, “A Mark of Sanity” 2/14/25. (rabbirami@substack.com) https://secure.hushmail.com/mail/#message/My%20Response%20Is%20Needed/5022641?show_images=1)
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Mindy supports everyone in exploring and defining what spirituality means for themselves, and to use whatever terms feel right to them. In the workshops, she uses a variety of terms and also asks what participants feel comfortable with. The spiritual songs and chants have verses with varied wording, to make them meaningful to more people. You can choose other wording as well. The workshops are not a place to argue or debate about religious or spiritual beliefs. Everyone is encouraged to share their own experiences if they feel comfortable doing so, but not to try to change anyone else’s beliefs or give advice. Mutual respect is vital. Mindy upholds the value that no human is more worthy than any others. Evangelizing about particular religions will not be allowed in the workshops. Her goal is to create safe spaces to validate and deepen people’s personal experiences of spiritual connection and communication, rather than debate about theology.
For those with negative feelings about the word “God”:
Four of the 10 Spiritual Well-Being album’s songs contain the word “God”—usually in one verse, with different wording in the other verses. Mindy recorded an entire song (Held and Loved by…) as two distinct tracks with varied terms to be accessible to folks who feel intensely uncomfortable with the word “God”.
Mindy personally uses the word “God” as a convenient shorthand to mean all of the following:
An energy of love, wisdom, and creativity that is in all things and all people.
Something we can experience and be supported by in many different ways.
The unexplainable intelligence-power and wisdom-brilliance that created billions of expanding galaxies with the utmost precision.
The energy that is the basis or essence of our being.
Something that connects everyone and everything.
An energy that is far beyond the limitations of our human understanding.
A source of wisdom and guidance that is available for all of us.
(Feel free to share this description but credit her name, please.)
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Mindy treasures her Jewish upbringing and communities for vital nurturing and teaching she’s received through her life. She is also grateful for what she’s learned from a wide variety of other religious and spiritual practices and writings over many years. She is a member of the American Psychological Association and its Division 36: Society for The Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. She’s been a member of the Institute of Noetic Science (the scientific study of consciousness) for over 30 years. She’s done various types of meditation and read about spirituality from many perspectives. She has 40+ years of experience in an addiction recovery program which encourages developing a personal connection with a Higher Power. She is not an expert on religion. She strives to provide safe spaces, stories, and processes to help people explore, validate, and deepen their personal experiences of spiritual connection and communication.
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Date: Thurs. May 8, 2025, 7 - 9 pm
Cost per workshop: $36 Suggested. Sliding Fee options of $24, $36, $49, and $59.
Location: 6001 Lyndale Ave. S., (Studio TimeOut) Minneapolis, MN 55419
Accessibility: ADA accessible parking & meeting room. Bathroom not fully wheelchair accessible. Free parking in lot and on street. On bus route.
Please Note: Current or former psychotherapy clients of mine need to talk with me before registering to discuss whether attending is a good fit with your therapy goals and for other professional boundaries.
Who are the workshops for?
They’re a great fit for a wide variety of humans!
People Seeking Personal Growth who are interested in self-improvement, emotional development, and well-being.
Therapists and Counselors, & Other Professionals who are looking for new techniques to support their clients' emotional health.
Teachers and Educators who wish to integrate emotional well-being practices into their classrooms.
Caregivers and Parents seeking strategies to support their own and their children’s or dear ones’ emotional well-being.
Corporate Employees and Managers: Professionals aiming to enhance emotional intelligence and well-being in the workplace.
Students and Young Adults: Young people interested in developing emotional resilience and mindfulness skills. (Ages 18+ or 15-17 y.o. with a parent/guardian).
Creative Folx: Artists, musicians, and storytellers looking to boost their creativity and emotional health.
Community Leaders who want to foster emotional well-being within their communities.
Anyone Experiencing Emotional Challenges: Individuals dealing with stress, anxiety, or other emotional difficulties who are seeking new ways to cope and heal.
People who enjoy singing OR who got negative messages about their singing voice and would like a supportive place to re-claim using and enjoying their voice. Singing is optional at workshops.
Experiencing all 3 workshops series teaches you all the songs and explores all the Watering the Heart Root themes:
Feel compassion for ourselves
Connect with joy, creativity, and innate worthiness
Open to positive possibilities & gratitude
Appreciate our bodies
Be more fully present
Align with energies of love, wisdom & guidance
Contact Mindy to arrange customized workshops or keynote presentations for your
organization or group!
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I was feeling a little physically crappy just from lack of sleep and travel stress. So I listened to this chant three times and I loved it. It was wonderful, sounded great and I love the percussion. I’m going to listen some more! Your chant ended up being the perfect little gift for me right now.
-C.H.
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It's deeply needed in our world, and you're the perfect human to deliver it!
-Ariella
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What’s cool and unique about this is it’s both meditative and enjoyable—you want to listen over and over to it. It’s more accessible for me than repeating spoken mantras and affirmations. They’re real songs, not spoken words w/ meditative music behind it.
-Mara

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