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Lalli Dana Drobny founded KindMind - the Heart of Well-Being in 2002. Inspired by 12 years studying/serving at international meditation retreat sites, Lalli longed to co-create more peaceful spaces - within and around us.
KindMInd began as an experiment, a container to explore simple, authentic ways to BE - individually and in community. Gatherings and Inquiry designed to support and strengthen mind/body/spirit collaboration and right/left brain integration, KindMind aligns with current interpersonal neurobiology research and focuses on client-based, contemplative, and creative practices.
For forty years, Lalli has explored the mind/body /spirit connection: Polarity, NVC, Reiki, Psycho-Physical Therapy, Yoga and Ayurveda, Resonant Healing and Emergent Constellations.
Her curiosity and reverence for the unique ways we each learn and grow has been informed working with staff and students at The University of Iowa, University of New Hampshire, Santa Barbara City College, Antioch SB, The Learning Center, Pacifica Graduate Institute, University of Phoenix (San Francisco), Iowa Arts Council, Netigy, and Self-Esteem Seminars.
Lalli completed Sarah Peyton's first Resonant Healing Cohort in 2001 and now enjoys working 1-1 with folks as a Resonant Accompanist. While that word often conjures up a musician supporting other musicians, Lalli enjoys accompanying human beings as we navigate this (sometimes precarious) play of human beingness.
Are you longing for a little support? Maybe you'd like some good company as you explore an area of stuckness or some accompaniment in grieving? Maybe you long for more clarity or focus in some part of your life? Or maybe you just want to celebrate and acknowledge yourself - where you are and/or your willingness to change?
Humans are wired for connection; we do a lot better when we feel seen, heard, accompanied, when there is acknowledgment that, "Yes, I make sense."
Many of us didn't receive much of that resonance when we were little ones; we had to invent our own strategies to survive, and thank goodness, we did. However, what served us well back then, now often confuses us. Many times, we just need to shine light on systemic crazy-making and intergenerational trauma. Find ways to understand, disentangle, begin again. Again.
KindMind sessions flow from the client's intentions. With warmth and care, Lalli honors what your body/mind knows, remembers, and wants to express. She follows your flow and choices, listening to words, gestures, memories, images, posture, pace, rhythm, and silence.
Each session is unique, paying attention to what is and what wants to be expressed. It might include meditation, writing, doodling, movement, listening, letting go and/or hanging on, singing, time travel, and contract release.
(Photo above is the a sun tunnel - when light continues to rise into the sky AFTER the sun sets,)
Lalli works with writers of all sorts, individually and in groups. Her workshops and 1-1 sessions explore, experiment, and make space for our authentic voices to speak. Some writers are already working on a manuscript, others need a nudge to begin a memoir, others write songs, some prefer poetry. Others simply want to grow imagination, practice focus, enjoy fresh levels of resilience and well-being, or simply connect with others.
Lalli received her MA from the University of Iowa and has been designing contemplative, nurturing, creative spaces ever since.
Listening and asking good questions matters. The stories we tell and hear matter. Language is a powerful tool for self, relational, and systemic discovery. We are all in this together.
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Lalli designed Writing Our Lives into Being in 2003 as a place to explore our relationship with growable traits - how roots of kindness, courage, authenticity, honesty, or acceptance can support us individually and collectively. Over the last 20 years, all sorts of iterations emerged (authors, genres, issues) in venues across the country, based on community interest and the ever-changing times.
In 2020, responding to folks' despair and isolation, she created online Write Now Workshops (and smaller, ongoing writing Write Now Nests) where we can acknowledge/honor joy and grief - in appropriate and ever-evolving doses.
2023 Lalli began Writing Back to Being. The first offering Magic Carpet Write was a hybrid (online and in person at the Santa Barbara Yoga Center), and in 2024, she's introducing
Shake, Rattle, and Write (online beginning January 16).
I'm delighted to be presenting an 85-minute experiential workshop in this fourth annual Resonance Summit, hosted by Sarah Peyton.
My workshop is
Shake, Rattle, and Write - create your own unique
self-care concoction
Tuesday, April 9,
2:00 pm-3:25 pm Pacific time
Engage your curiosity as we play with movement, sound, scribing/scribbling, poetry, and an emergent constellation. We'll gather together to welcome ourselves and each other, to tenderly tune in to inner sensations, to offer ourselves spaciousness for authentic expression. Experiment! We'll pay attention to our responses, self-reflecting on our next Yes step: Do I want to laugh, hum, dance, draw, sing, swear, or maybe, simply sit still? We'll close with a mini-constellation designed to shine light on creating our own unique take-home, self-care practice/potion. Please bring journal and pencil/crayons, 4 small objects (stone, bean, penny, leaf, almond, etc.), and a rattle of any sort (vitamin/supplement containers work well).
The Summit is a deep exploration of the latest neuroscience research on play and trauma healing, the science of attunement. Offering five keynotes and more than thirty, it's
free and online.
Register here:
THE 2024 RESONANCE SUMMIT -EXPLORE THE HEALING POWER OF PLAY April 5-9
Shake, Rattle, and Write - create your own unique
self-care concoction
https://sarahpeyton.com/2024-resonance-summit/
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BE in Nature: Practice Mindful Whole-Heartedness
Root and Bloom
Thursday, March 7 8:30-10:30 am
Santa Barbara Botanical Garden
Be one of 12 participants, meeting before the Garden officially opens. Experience pristine quiet. Connect with your true nature, your voice, those who gather together to explore our own Rooting and Blooming.
If you want to know more and/or register, please click here:
https://sbbotanicgarden.org/classes-events/be-in-nature-practice-mindful-whole-heartedness-3/
Let the Garden’s natural beauty and wholeness remind you of your own. Sit, stand, walk, stretch, imagine, and BE yourself as we play with a range of embodied meditation practices. Whether you’re wanting to ground, branch, bloom, connect, gain clarity, build resilience, or increase compassion, practicing together in nature allows us fresh opportunities to breathe into our own authenticity, celebrate interconnection, and step forward with more awareness. (Each winter month, we focused on a different theme.)
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Santa Barbara City College Online Non-Credit (no-cost to CA participants)
MINDFULNESS, Meditation in Daily Life on Mondays 4-6 pm,
January 22 - March 11 8 weeks
CRN: 66936, SLFO NC039
Writing Your Life into Being, Fridays, 9:15-11:15 am
March 22 - May 17 (8 weeks)
CRN: 67006, CREO NC 646
for more info and to register:
https://www.sbcc.edu/extendedlearning/pdfs/Enabled%20Noncredit%20application%20final.pdf
or
https://www.sbcc.edu/extendedlearning/location.php
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Move and Be Still - Help Heartfulness Grow
Sunday, Nov 12 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM Santa Barbara Yoga Center
I did three sessions via Zoom with Dana. I can say without qualification these were the most productive 'therapy' I've had. Much longer more traditional therapy sessions achieved less benefit. I credit this both to the method of memory recovery Dana employs and to Dana’s calming, warm, inviting, non-judgmental engagement with me as a client, which by disarming defenses enabled me to retrieve and unpack moments of consciousness to a degree I had not previously experienced.
Dr. Stephen Vlastos, Emeritus Professor of History
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I value the time Lalli shared with me. I felt a large part of the traumatic event of my mother’s suicide was released. How? I remembered an expression during our 2nd session - words I made up and held onto as that 12-year old who was not allowed to mourn. Remembering those words after all these decades helps me understand and finally “delete” one of my ongoing blocks that stops me from expanding. Clown/Artist/Writer, California, USA
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I was at ease with Dana's technique. Even though it felt easeful she was able to open dark crevices and bring out what was truly behind what was happening for me. Once she helped bring some light onto issues I kept hidden, she helped me to process these issues. She gave me gentle guidance for approaching and then working with them. After our sessions I felt clear and confident about the best way for me to move forward. She has such a deep and loving compassionate heart. It made me feel safe and helped me to heal. She has a gift. Karen S, MS
When I think of Dana’s classes some of the words that come to mind are warm, safe, inspiring, rich, authentic, embodied writing.
Each session is a wonderful blend of old and new. There is structure and there are delightful surprises. Dana brings her experience as a meditation teacher and helps us get into the quiet and wise place inside. She creates a warm safe space so that the writing that happens is natural, brave and full of insights.
Dana also brings her experience as a language teacher and gives pointers on the craft of writing. She not only brings excellent reading material, but also helps us see why a particular poem or story works, what are some of the element that go into making a good piece of writing.
I love being a part of Dana’s writing community. I always go away feeling inspired and not so alone for the days when I do my writing practice on my own.
Sometimes our brains can make writing into a complex thing but in one of Dana’s classes I had the aha — writing is not complicated. You just notice the world around you or the world of your imagination and put that on the page. What could be simpler?
Seema Chopra, Santa Barbara, CA
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