A Practice of Freedom

Nicholas Brüss, EdD, is a UCLA Certified Mindfulness Facilitator, a Stanford University trained Compassion Cultivating Training teacher, and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher. He has been cross-trained in multiple arenas with compassion at their core such as mindfulness, attachment-based psychotherapy, somatic-based trauma resiliency, nonviolent communication and end of life presence. He also teaches the heavily researched Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program and is a Certified Mindfulness Facilitator by UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Nicholas has practiced Vipassana meditation intensively in the U.S., Burma and Thailand, and is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practioner’s and Heavenly Messenger Programs. He is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice and Co-Director of La Maida Institute in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Nicholas has a keen interest in leading transformative practices toward a sustainable awakening way of being.

My approach is for intimately living your life and being at home in your body. It’s a highly collaborative process that requires showing up to get down, way down, into exploring what’s true for you. I’m present from a position of knowing that you, like me and everyone else I’ve worked with, have an innate capacity to heal as well as an inner knowing. Your inner healing capacity knows to show you what needs your attention. Your inner knowing knows exactly how to be with, and what to do with, whatever that experience is. This work reconnects you with your inner knowing. How? By together meeting anything that gets in the way of accessing it. How? By together deploying awareness, cultivating a curious and compassionate stance, and welcoming the wisdom of your body. We’ll also be studying relational patterns and current lifestyle, refining communication skills, identifying and strengthening resources, and integrating the different, aspects of yourself. This process is movement into alignment with your inner knowing, instead of perpetuating outdated stories or planning for a future self. What emerges is a felt-sense of connection and the ability to respond more skillfully and creatively to whatever challenges arise.

A Practice of Freedom

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