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Learn More about Heather
Heather is an LA-based Mindfulness Facilitator works with a diverse range of clientele
including those in recovery, people coping with depression and anxiety, cancer survivors, men and women battling chronic health and pain issues, those suffering from PTSD, as well as fellow clinicians combating compassion fatigue syndrome. Her training began with Tibetan Compassion practices in 1998, traveling the world to learn under masters in both India and Europe. In 2011 she became a certified Mindfulness Facilitator at UCLA, where she also taught Mindful Awareness Classes as well as courses online. Currently, she’s co-creator and master teacher for The DEN Meditation Teacher Training Program. Her joy is watching her clients develop the tools necessary to tap into their own inner wisdom, enabling them to forge their own path towards healing and self-compassion. She’s been featured on E! as well as in publications such as Time, The Times of India and Femcompetitor. Her teaching on joy can be viewed on Mindful Magazine’s January online edition.
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A Transcript of our Conversation:
I’m with Heather Prete.
Mindfulness facilitator. Yeah, and you have a you have a certificate from UCLA mindfulness and have worked with them a lot. That’s right. And I teach their courses as well. Right and you teach those over The Den in Hollywood. That’s where on the Brea. Yeah, that’s my Brea have to remember where we are.
Yeah that we’re at the Den on the corner of 4th and LaBrea, which is a wonderful space that has drop-ins which would be you can just come and meditate and get a little talk and sound Bast and I this is actually where I have my personal office for my one-on-one. Yeah, my one-on-one. It’s well, I want to thank you for meeting me and you talking about these things and just getting this whole thing rolling.
The first question I have is just really simple and I explain to you why where this came from and how we started but one of these questions was just really simple. Why should we? Hmm, why is it important? Well, I mean it’s funny because I don’t like to use the word should too much. Okay, because really it’s a choice, right?
And that’s that’s the essence of the practice is choice. We have more Choice more. When we have more clarity on the different aspects of self and how they work together and how they respond to our inner and outer worlds. So, you know, there are many different ways to get there quite honestly, there are many paradigms and some people are more.
Be mindful than other people. I know that I can speak for myself. So in my cage this practice was so important because I had a lot of suffering. I was dealing with it with quite a few very difficult emotions that we would call chronic that didn’t seem to rise and fall. Of course, they always do we just miss those moments that they’re not there, right?
But had really developed into a trait so a trade of anxiety or a trade of depression, right? I really identified with those and they seem to be my constant companions. And I didn’t know or understand that there was an aspect of the self that is meant to care for those emotions. Mmm. So I did the natural thing that everybody does which is to try to run away from them and we try to run away from them in many different ways.
And I tried them all and I’ll tell you it doesn’t work. We get something called we get tricked because we get something called a temporary cessation of suffering wh...
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Learn More about Heather
Heather is an LA-based Mindfulness Facilitator works with a diverse range of clientele
including those in recovery, people coping with depression and anxiety, cancer survivors, men and women battling chronic health and pain issues, those suffering from PTSD, as well as fellow clinicians combating compassion fatigue syndrome. Her training began with Tibetan Compassion practices in 1998, traveling the world to learn under masters in both India and Europe. In 2011 she became a certified Mindfulness Facilitator at UCLA, where she also taught Mindful Awareness Classes as well as courses online. Currently, she’s co-creator and master teacher for The DEN Meditation Teacher Training Program. Her joy is watching her clients develop the tools necessary to tap into their own inner wisdom, enabling them to forge their own path towards healing and self-compassion. She’s been featured on E! as well as in publications such as Time, The Times of India and Femcompetitor. Her teaching on joy can be viewed on Mindful Magazine’s January online edition.
To find out more…
Ask Alexa for the Podcast “Why Meditate?”
A Transcript of our Conversation:
I’m with Heather Prete.
Mindfulness facilitator. Yeah, and you have a you have a certificate from UCLA mindfulness and have worked with them a lot. That’s right. And I teach their courses as well. Right and you teach those over The Den in Hollywood. That’s where on the Brea. Yeah, that’s my Brea have to remember where we are.
Yeah that we’re at the Den on the corner of 4th and LaBrea, which is a wonderful space that has drop-ins which would be you can just come and meditate and get a little talk and sound Bast and I this is actually where I have my personal office for my one-on-one. Yeah, my one-on-one. It’s well, I want to thank you for meeting me and you talking about these things and just getting this whole thing rolling.
The first question I have is just really simple and I explain to you why where this came from and how we started but one of these questions was just really simple. Why should we? Hmm, why is it important? Well, I mean it’s funny because I don’t like to use the word should too much. Okay, because really it’s a choice, right?
And that’s that’s the essence of the practice is choice. We have more Choice more. When we have more clarity on the different aspects of self and how they work together and how they respond to our inner and outer worlds. So, you know, there are many different ways to get there quite honestly, there are many paradigms and some people are more.
Be mindful than other people. I know that I can speak for myself. So in my cage this practice was so important because I had a lot of suffering. I was dealing with it with quite a few very difficult emotions that we would call chronic that didn’t seem to rise and fall. Of course, they always do we just miss those moments that they’re not there, right?
But had really developed into a trait so a trade of anxiety or a trade of depression, right? I really identified with those and they seem to be my constant companions. And I didn’t know or understand that there was an aspect of the self that is meant to care for those emotions. Mmm. So I did the natural thing that everybody does which is to try to run away from them and we try to run away from them in many different ways.
And I tried them all and I’ll tell you it doesn’t work. We get something called we get tricked because we get something called a temporary cessation of suffering wh...