Mindful Hearts

Mindful Hearts Mindfulness programs for children and adults in Karachi, Pakistan. What is mindfulness and how does it help?

Mindful Hearts offers mindfulness programs to help people manage the stresses of daily life, cope with difficult emotions, and deal with chronic pain and illness. The classes are taught by Maheen Mohammed, who is a Certified Mindfulness Instructor (CMI) through Mindful Schools, an accredited Breathworks Mindfulness Teacher (Breathworks Mindfulness, UK), a Trained Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Teac

her, and a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher after completing the two-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program taught by renowned meditation teachers Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. Maheen also holds the designation of Certified Mindfulness Teacher - Professional Level through the International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA CMT-P). Maheen is currently completing Gabor Mate's year long Compassionate Inquiry professional program. Maheen came across mindfulness practices in 2008 during a particularly turbulent time in her life, and found this way of meeting her experiences to be life changing. Maheen experienced such profound shifts, she was inspired to integrate mindfulness into her work as a school psychologist, and to pursue further training to learn how to share these practices with others. Maheen has been teaching mindfulness and self-compassion workshops, courses, and retreats since 2013, and is passionate about guiding and accompanying people as they learn to befriend themselves and their experiences with kindness and curiosity. Maheen remains committed to her own personal mindfulness practice, and considers herself to be a life-long learner. Mindfulness means to deliberately pay attention to your experience in the present moment (your physical sensations, thoughts, and emotions) with kindness and curiosity. In this modern, fast-paced life, we tend to operate on "automatic pilot" a lot of the time. Our minds are often disconnected from our bodies, and rather than bringing attention to our present moment experience, we get lost in thought - thinking and worrying about things that have already happened; or planning, thinking, and worrying about what may happen later. When we operate like this, we miss out on many of the moments of our lives. Additionally, not only do a lot of our routine tasks become automatic, even our emotional responses become automatic and habitual. We end up not having the presence of mind to respond thoughtfully and carefully to situations, and when we think about them later on, we may regret our instant "knee jerk" reactions. Mindfulness practice strengthens our ability to be more fully present in our lives, and to become aware of our experiences in difficult moments so that we may have a choice in how to respond to them.

Samia Shakeel Chundrigar is back with her transformative program - Nourish: Understanding your relationship with food! ...
19/08/2023

Samia Shakeel Chundrigar is back with her transformative program - Nourish: Understanding your relationship with food! Details in the poster.

Join Maheen Mohammed and Nida Khan in Azad Kashmir for a retreat this October! Details are in the flyer. To book your sp...
16/07/2023

Join Maheen Mohammed and Nida Khan in Azad Kashmir for a retreat this October! Details are in the flyer. To book your spot, email us at [email protected] with your contact info and room preference, with the subject line "Autumn Awakening".

Karachiites - this incredible workshop is not to be missed! If you've ever been interested in doing a deep dive into you...
16/04/2023

Karachiites - this incredible workshop is not to be missed! If you've ever been interested in doing a deep dive into your relationship with food, this is the workshop for you! Facilitated by the very skilful and compassionate Samia Shakeel Chundrigar, this workshop is open to anybody who wants to experientially work with and understand their relationship to food.

11/01/2023

“The only rule of the game is to put your own consciousness in a place where you are no longer attached to a polarized position even though you may, by the nature of the game, be forced to play out a polarizing role.” - Ram Dass

The Mindful Self-Compassion course combines the skills of mindfulness and self-compassion, providing a powerful tool for...
02/01/2023

The Mindful Self-Compassion course combines the skills of mindfulness and self-compassion, providing a powerful tool for emotional resilience to allow you to respond to difficult moments in your life with kindness, care and understanding.

*Limited scholarships available, please inquire

11/10/2022
A few spots still remaining for this 6 day retreat in Chitral!
18/08/2022

A few spots still remaining for this 6 day retreat in Chitral!

Sukoon-e-Qalb: a Maheen and Nida Retreat

Join us for a 6-day retreat at the beautiful Ayun Fort Inn, a 50 acre farm situated above the Ayun valley surrounded by the majestic mountains of the Hindu Kush range. A 10-hour drive from Islamabad, this scenic and serene sanctuary is an ideal setting to nurture our minds, bodies, and spirit. Through mindfulness practices, creativity, and play, we will discover and express our most authentic selves, while cultivating heartful connections with each other. There will be daily periods of silence, including one full silent day from wake up to 5 p.m.

Maheen Mohammed is a mindfulness facilitator and Nida Khan is a psychotherapist. Maheen and Nida believe that human connection is incredibly nourishing, and essential to our survival. They love to bring people together in community by offering retreats, music circles, and courses focusing on mindfulness and connection.

email [email protected] to register

When: September 21st - 28th, 2022*

Cost: Rs. 146,000 (per person, double occupancy)

Rs. 172,000 (single occupancy, very limited spots)

Includes: Daily meditation practices and group activities
6 full days at Ayun Fort Inn, Chitral, with meals
Transportation from Islamabad to Ayun and back
Excursions

The cost does NOT include flights to/from Islamabad

* Departure from Islamabad @ 9:30 p.m September 21st, arrival in Ayun Sept 22nd morning

Departure from Ayun @ 10 p.m September 27th, arrival in Islamabad Sept 28th morning

Please note this is an intoxicant-free wellness holiday.

30/04/2022

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.

Excerpt: "The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace"

Sukoon-e-Qalb: a Maheen and Nida RetreatJoin us for a 6-day retreat at the beautiful Ayun Fort Inn, a 50 acre farm situa...
24/04/2022

Sukoon-e-Qalb: a Maheen and Nida Retreat

Join us for a 6-day retreat at the beautiful Ayun Fort Inn, a 50 acre farm situated above the Ayun valley surrounded by the majestic mountains of the Hindu Kush range. A 10-hour drive from Islamabad, this scenic and serene sanctuary is an ideal setting to nurture our minds, bodies, and spirit. Through mindfulness practices, creativity, and play, we will discover and express our most authentic selves, while cultivating heartful connections with each other. There will be daily periods of silence, including one full silent day from wake up to 5 p.m.

Maheen Mohammed is a mindfulness facilitator and Nida Khan is a psychotherapist. Maheen and Nida believe that human connection is incredibly nourishing, and essential to our survival. They love to bring people together in community by offering retreats, music circles, and courses focusing on mindfulness and connection.

email [email protected] to register

When: September 21st - 28th, 2022*

Cost: Rs. 146,000 (per person, double occupancy)

Rs. 172,000 (single occupancy, very limited spots)

Includes: Daily meditation practices and group activities
6 full days at Ayun Fort Inn, Chitral, with meals
Transportation from Islamabad to Ayun and back
Excursions

The cost does NOT include flights to/from Islamabad

* Departure from Islamabad @ 9:30 p.m September 21st, arrival in Ayun Sept 22nd morning

Departure from Ayun @ 10 p.m September 27th, arrival in Islamabad Sept 28th morning

Please note this is an intoxicant-free wellness holiday.

08/04/2022

Mindfulness is participatory observation – we are both subject and object of loving awareness at the same time. We both witness and experience the emotions and physical sensations that we’re having, simultaneously. The word for mindfulness is sati, and it means, remember, don’t forget! Don’t forget to relax and allow yourself to simply notice and be here, right where you are — present with what’s unfolding, willing to see life just as it is. Remember to notice and appreciate life happening, life in the form of this breath, this sensation, this perception, this moment!

Remember to connect with your body in walking, don’t forget to stay close to your own body as you sit still, and as you are standing, walking, living, moving around, being and doing what you do. You can sense the gathering wholeness, the healing and happiness that comes when we grow in confidence about our ability to stay with our body and learn, with loving awareness.

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