Lion’s Roar Live Events

Diana Winston

Diana Winston is the director of UCLA Mindful, the mindfulness education center of UCLA Health, and the author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering Your Natural Awareness. She has taught mindfulness since 1993 in a variety of settings including hospitals, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and schools in the US and Asia. During her 17-year tenure at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, Diana developed the evidence-based Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPS) curriculum and the Training in Mindfulness Facilitation program which trained more than 500 mindfulness teachers worldwide. She is a founding board member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.

Her work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, O Magazine, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Women’s Health, and in a variety of magazines, books, and journals. She is also the author of Wide Awake: A Buddhist Guide for Teens, Glimpses of Being, and the co-author, with Susan Smalley PhD, of Fully Present: The Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness, and has published numerous articles on mindfulness. 

Diana is a member of the Teacher’s Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California where she was trained to teach by Jack Kornfield. She has been practicing mindfulness meditation since 1989, including a year as a Buddhist nun in Burma.

Weekly Live Meditations

Join Diana on Wednesdays in October for weekly live meditations, open to all. Together, we’ll explore many ways to be mindful across what Diana calls “The Spectrum of Awareness Practices.” Drawing from her book The Little Book of Being, we’ll start with Focused Awareness — calming and concentrating our mind, move through Investigative and Open Awareness, where we explore thoughts and emotions and end with Natural Awareness, the boundless, spacious, awareness of awareness itself. 

Live talk + Q&A: “Expand your Mindfulness: From Focused to Spacious Awareness”

Plus, for Lion’s Roar members: Diana will share a live dharma talk, “Expand your Mindfulness: From Focused to Spacious Awareness”on Thursday, October 22.