About

Our Mission:

By cultivating wisdom through meditation and mindful awareness, Mindful Valley provides a training community that enables people to embrace stress and suffering with compassion, transforming it into a deep and reliable sense of happiness and well-being.

We teach the practice of mindfulness meditation as a path to wisdom and compassion to create transformation within the individual and any organization through classes, retreats and workshops.

We welcome collaborative alliances in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, nationwide, and internationally to open new opportunities for study, practice and service.

We provide donation based sitting groups in order to serve a community of meditators who need to strengthen their practice via collective group energy and love.

No one is turned away for lack of funds. We offer work study, internships and volunteer opportunities to those in financial need.

Mindful Valley is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and is licensed as a CEU provider with the CA Board of Behavioral Sciences and is associated with Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.

Teachers

Daniel Davis


Daniel Davis

Programs Director - Instructor

Co-Founder of Mindful Valley, a mindfulness training organization for individuals and professionals. For more than 25 years, Daniel has formally practiced Insight (Vipassana) and Zen meditation. Daniel’s interest in meditation and contemplation began while on a Franciscan retreat with his Catholic school at ag... read more

Dr. Manijeh Motaghy


Dr. Manijeh Motaghy
Organization Development Director

Dr. Manijeh Motaghy, PsyD. OMC is the Founder of Mindful Business Institute and the Co-founder of Mindful Valley. She is an Organization Development (Management Consultant), Employee Trainer and Speaker. Her Doctorate is in Organization Management Consulting with over 25 years entrepreneurial, business and... read more

Betsy Hanger


Betsy Hanger

Schools and Education 
Mindfulness Trainer, K-12 curriculum
Mindfulness Programs for Schools

In her more than 30 years as a classroom teacher, Betsy Hanger has always valued creative collaboration between teachers and students. She believes that Mindfulness curriculum is fundamentally a conversation about perception; therefore, as a Mindfulness teacher, she lets students’ responses and level of engagement guide her work, and she seeks the classroom teacher’s insights about students’ experiences. She joined Mindful Valley to collaborate with other professionals who provide Mindfulness training to the general public as well as in school and university settings in Southern California.

Betsy’s Mindfulness training began in 2006 with a personal Vip... read more

Sousan Amiri, M.S, LMFT


Sousan Amiri, M.S, LMFT

Families and Children

Sousan Amiri, M.S, LMFT is a licensed Psychotherapist specialized in working with children, individuals, and families integrating psychotherapy and the world of Attachment Focused Therapy which considers the latest advances in the neuro-biology of interpersonal behavior and how this affects relationships and behaviors. Her educational background includes Master of Science in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from California State University, Northridge and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from California State University, Channel Island. She has received training from different institutes and holds numerous memberships in several honor societies and professional organizations.

In her expertise as a relati... read more

Jonathan Troen


Jonathan Troen

Iyengar Yoga

Jonathan Troen is a certified Iyengar Yoga instructor, Life Coach and Meditation Leader. However, it was a journey that brought this entrepreneur to his current fortune in life.  

Jonathan's first career was in the entertainment industry. At 17, Jonathan was producing the #1 morning show at #1 radio station in Boston, WBCN-FM. After traveling and working in London, Copenhagen and Seville, Spain, Jonathan returned to the United States and settled in Los Angeles, California, where he launched the legendary online music destination L.A. Live, introducing the first ever ongoing series of live concerts and interviews on the Internet, featuring the biggest pop and rock stars in the world. In addition, he produced some of the most successful online events f... read more