Workshops, Songs & Chants for Emotional & Spiritual Well-Being
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! In-person Workshop Series dates:
1) Emotional Well-Being: Oct 14-Nov 4, 2024
2) Loving & Appreciating Our Bodies—Just As We Are: Nov 18-Dec 16, 2024
3) Spiritual Well-Being: Jan 6-Feb 3 2025
Watering the Heart Root of…
Pre-registration is required.
Watering the Heart Root
Workshops and Classes!
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.
About All the Workshop Series:
Enjoy 1, 2 or all 3 of these 4-session Workshop Series!
In each Workshop Series below you will:
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.
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.
Create your own affirmation song or statement, with step by step guidance.
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. (Scroll down or click here to read Covid/illness protocols.)
Workshop Series 1:
Watering the Heart Root of Emotional Well-Being
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.
Mondays 7:30-9:00pm Oct. 14, 21, 28, Nov. 4, 2024
In-person.
Location: Center for Performing Arts, 3754 Pleasant Ave., Minneapolis, MN. ADA accessible. Free street parking within 1 block.
A Unique Suite of:
Original Songs & Chants (sing &/or listen)
Education
Mindfulness
Stories
Discussion
Options for Movement/Drawing/Writing
Next 4-session Emotional Well-Being workshop series:
Mondays 7:30-9:00pm
Oct. 14, 21, 28, Nov. 4, 2024
In-person.
Location: Center for Performing Arts, 3754 Pleasant Ave., Minneapolis, MN. ADA accessible. Free street parking within 1 block.
COMBINE DISCOUNTS!
-Register by Sept 15th: $20 off your order! Code: EARLYBIRD1
-Register & pay for 2 workshop series at same time: 10% off both! Code: REG2WORKSHOPS
-Register & pay for 3 workshop series one same day: 15% off all! Code: REG3WORKSHOPS
Register for Workshop:
Workshop Series Cost:
The Suggested Price is $180 per 4-week Workshop Series. We offer a sliding scale $120 to $240 to accommodate various financial situations. If you can pay above the suggested rate, you help make it possible for those with lower incomes to attend. Please choose the price that best fits your current financial circumstances. A limited number of lower-fee spots are available if the lowest price listed is a barrier for attending.
(Please note: If you are a current or former psychotherapy client of mine who is interested in attending, I request that you speak with me first before registering, so I can maintain the highest standard of care for everyone involved.)
Workshop Series 2:
Watering the Heart Root of Loving & Appreciating Our Bodies—Just as We Are!
Mondays 7:30-9:00pm Nov 18, 25, (note 1-week break) Dec. 9, 16, 2024
In-person.
Location: Center for Performing Arts, 3754 Pleasant Ave., Minneapolis, MN. ADA accessible. Free street parking within 1 block.
Society has used cruel judgments about bodies (size, shape, skin tones, abilities, who we love) as 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
Next 4-session Loving & Appreciating Our Bodies workshop series:
Mondays 7:30-9:00pm Nov 18, 25, (note 1-week break) Dec. 9, 16, 2024.
In-person.
COMBINE DISCOUNTS!
-Register by Sept 15th: $20 off your order! Code: EARLYBIRD1
-Register & pay for 2 workshop series at same time: 10% off both! Code: REG2WORKSHOPS
-Register & pay for 3 workshop series one same day: 15% off all! Code: REG3WORKSHOPS
Register for Workshop:
Workshop Cost:
The Suggested Price is $180 per 4-week Workshop Series. We offer a sliding scale $120 to $240 to accommodate various financial situations. If you can pay above the suggested rate, you help make it possible for those with lower incomes to attend. Please choose the price that best fits your current financial circumstances. A limited number of lower-fee spots are available if the lowest price listed is a barrier for attending.
(Please note: If you are a current or former psychotherapy client of mine who is interested in attending, I request that you speak with me first before registering, so I can maintain the highest standard of care for everyone involved.)
Workshop Series 3:
Watering the Heart Root of Spiritual
Well-Being
Mondays 7:30-9:00pm 2025: Jan 6, 13, (Note 1-week break), 27, Feb. 3
In-person.
Location: Center for Performing Arts, 3754 Pleasant Ave., Minneapolis, MN. ADA accessible. Free street parking within 1 block.
This workshop supports us in recognizing and claiming our spiritual natures. We’ll learn, practice, and share tools to deepen our own personal spiritual connections. This nourishment helps blossom our inner seeds of worthiness, love, compassion, trust, gratitude, intuition, and openness to wise guidance along our paths through life.
Designed for people with a wide variety of spiritual paths and identities, including folks who are “spiritual but not religious,” those who have a religion they’re comfortable with, & those who haven’t thought much about their spirituality but are curious to explore it.
Spiritual Well-Being Workshop Topics May Include:
How do we personally experience it?
How is “spiritual” different from “religious”?
Is there something bigger & stronger than all the fear and negativity in the world?
What do the major wisdom traditions have in common?
Discussions about possible purpose(s) of life.
Oneness and Individuality.
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.
Free will and spirituality.
Emotions and spirituality.
A Unique Mix of:
Original Songs & Chants (sing &/or listen)
Education
Mindfulness
Stories
Discussion
Options for Movement/Drawing/Writing
Next Spiritual Well-Being workshop series:
Mondays 7:30-9:00pm
2025: Jan 6, 13, (Note 1-week break), 27, Feb. 3
In-person.
Location: Center for Performing Arts, 3754 Pleasant Ave., Minneapolis, MN. ADA accessible. Free street parking within 1 block.
COMBINE DISCOUNTS!
-Register by Sept 15th: $20 off your order! Code: EARLYBIRD1
-Register & pay for 2 workshop series at same time: 10% off both! Code: REG2WORKSHOPS
-Register & pay for 3 workshop series one same day: 15% off all! Code: REG3WORKSHOPS
Register for Workshop:
Workshop Cost:
The Suggested Price is $180 per 4-week Workshop Series. We offer a sliding scale $120 to $240 to accommodate various financial situations. If you can pay above the suggested rate, you help make it possible for those with lower incomes to attend. Please choose the price that best fits your current financial circumstances. A limited number of lower-fee spots are available if the lowest price listed is a barrier for attending.
(Please note: If you are a current or former psychotherapy client of mine who is interested in attending, I request that you speak with me first before registering, so I can maintain the highest standard of care for everyone involved.)
Covid and Illness Safety Protocols for Watering the Heart Root Workshops:
We value the inclusion, health and safety needs of all people. Some workshop participants will likely be at higher risk for severe illness from Covid, RSV, or flu, or are in contact with someone who is. Wearing masks helps protect everyone, especially those who are most vulnerable. Therefore, masking at workshops is required, to ensure that everyone feels secure and can fully engage in the activities. Masks may be removed while eating or drinking.
Please don’t attend if you feel unwell or are having covid or respiratory illness symptoms. If you’ve been in close contact with someone who tested positive for Covid in the previous 5 days, please stay home or take a home covid test to make sure it’s a negative result in the hours before the workshop. Please contact Mindy if you find out you likely had Covid when you were at the workshop, so she can make participants aware in case they want to test for covid in the following days. Mindy received the Covid vaccines and gets regular boosters.
Your participation in these safety measures helps us create a healthy and welcoming space for all.
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.
Taking 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
Also listen on all the major streaming platforms (Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, YouTube, many more)!
Purchase the CD!
Download the Album!