About

Our Mission:

By cultivating wisdom through 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 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.

"I have only three enemies. My favorite enemy, the one most easily influenced for the better, is the British Empire. My Second enemy, the Indian people, is far more difficult. But my most formidable opponent is a man named Mohandas K. Gandhi. With him I seem to have very little influence."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Teachers

Daniel Davis


Daniel Davis

Programs Director - Instructor

Co-Founder of Mindful Valley, a mindfulness training organization for individuals and professionals. For more than 23 years, Daniel has practiced Insight and Zen meditation. Daniel’s interest in meditation began while Activities Coordinator with the Jan Berry Center For The Brain Injured. Inspired by the neuroplastic qualities of the brain, he began developing mindfulness exercises using drumming and other creative practices for people with serious brain trauma.

Teaching Experience:

  • Currently, Daniel works as the Program Director of Mindful Valley developing curriculum for teens, therapists, artists, 12 step programs and the community at large. Daniel serves as the senior instructor in mindfulness courses for both... read more

Dr. Manijeh Motaghy


Dr. Manijeh Motaghy
Organization Development Director

Co-founder of Mindful Valley and the founder of Unite In Vision, Manijeh was born in Iran and raised in the U.S. She holds a Doctorate of Psychology in Organizational Consulting and serves Mindful Valley as its Organization Development Director. As a mindfulness practitioner, she infuses mindful practices into Mindful Valley's course curriculum and workshops under the umbrella of “The Mindful Organization,” and her “Cycle of Excellence” model.

Manijeh continues to serve the business community through UniteInVision, EDC-VC (Economic Development Collaborative Ventura County) as Organizational Consultant, Executive Coach and through Mindful Valley as its Organization Development Director and business instructor. As a min... read more