The Mindful Center

04/08/2026

12/06/2025

Rejoicing isn’t pretending to be happy for others. It’s learning to recycle their joy — to let their good fortune spark the same frequency of joy in you.

11/12/2025

Come join us for our next meditation retreat: Feb. 14 - 21, 2026 in the sweet beach town of San Pancho, Mexico. Michelle DuVal, MA, director of The Mindful Center, with Dr. Monica Fitzgerald, director of the Center for Resilience + Well-Being at UC Boulder. It's sure to be an experience of a lifetime. Only 5 rooms left!
https://themindfulcenter.com/program/san-pancho-meditation-retreat/

11/07/2025

We are down to our final 5 rooms for this glorious, fun, relaxing, and affordable meditation retreat, with hosts Michelle DuVal, MA, director of The Mindful Center, and Dr. Monica Fitzgerald, director of the Center for Resilience + Well-Being at UC Boulder.
If you've ever wondered about a meditation retreat, you'll be in great hands with this one! Join us if you can!

Feb.14 -21, 2026 Join Michelle DuVal, MA, director of The Mindful Center for an incredible week long meditation retreat focused on relaxation, well being, beach-bumming, and developing a deeper meditation practice.

10/24/2025

Come join Michelle on her next retreat: Feb. 14 -21, 2026 in the beautifully sweet small town of San Pancho, Mexico.
https://themindfulcenter.com/program/san-pancho-meditation-retreat/

10/06/2025

We talk a lot about the algorithm — the one online that hooks us with anxiety, outrage, and endless scrolling.
But the real algorithm that shapes our lives? It’s inside our own minds.
Whatever we give our attention to, the mind learns to feed us more of it.
Meditation is how we break that cycle — how we stop clicking on every anxious, irritated, or craving thought, and start choosing where our attention goes.
Because attention is the currency.
And once you stop fueling the old algorithm, a new one starts to run — built on calm, clarity, compassion, and presence.

🧠✨ Beat the algorithm from the inside out.

08/04/2025

Michelle DuVal, MA, director of The Mindful Center, begins her Crash Courses in Meditation in one week! 14 consecutive days of meditations on specific aspects of practice. Sign up for just one session, or all ten as a bundle. LIFE CHANGING!

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02/16/2025

Space is going quickly for my next meditation retreat in the beautiful beach town of San Pancho, Mexico. Feb. 14 - 21, 2026. I've booked 3 hotels an easy 5-7 min. walk from the beach - want to join me?

Feb.14 -21, 2026 Join Michelle DuVal, MA, director of The Mindful Center for an incredible week long meditation retreat focused on relaxation, well being, beach-bumming, and developing a deeper meditation practice.

01/14/2025

Michelle DuVal, director of The Mindful Center, is going to train using mindfulness (and a running coach, lol) for the next Senior Olympics in the 400m!
Watch this short video to see how it started!

12/30/2024

Hi Everyone! Michelle's started a Substack! She'll be posting weekly new guided meditations, a new offering called Answers in Meditation - where she'll respond to readers questions and comments with new guided meditations. ALSO: become a paid subscriber and get access to her daily live Zoom meditations! M-F. Hope so much it brings you benefit! xoTeam Mindful

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07/10/2024

We only have a few rooms left for our Aug, 16-18 silent meditation retreat at Ghost Ranch, Abiqui, NM. If you've ever wanted to try a retreat, now's your chance! And you'll be in good hands with Michelle DuVal, MA, retreat leader and director of The Mindful Center - she's been hosting these retreats for 20+ years, all over the world!

Aug, 16 - 18, 2024 Join Michelle DuVal, MA, director of The Mindful Center, as she draws from her 20+ years of teaching mindfulness and hosting retreats around the world, to lead you into a silent retreat experience that will change you and impact how you view yourself and the world...forever.

06/24/2024

We have just a few rooms left for Michelle's meditation/ yoga retreat in Nosara, Costa Rica! Dec. 7 - 14, 2024
Two rooms you should know about have two separate bedrooms and either one or two bathrooms, so you could come with a friend or family and still have your own bedroom!
We also have 2 gorgeous bungalows left, with either a king bed or 2 queens. Everything else is sold out!
This is one of the most beautiful hotels in the world - the Bodhi Tree - and we're bringing our own yoga teacher, Andrew West. What a giggly wonderful blessing he is!
Not to mention Michelle will be sharing some incredible teachings so close to her heart - they are what keep her sane and healthy and calm (except at basketball games lol) on a daily basis - she can't wait to share them with you!

Dec. 7 - 14, 2024 Join Michelle DuVal, MA, director of The Mindful Center for an incredible week long immersive meditation retreat focused on relaxation, well being, and developing greater insight into our lives, our struggles, and how we begin to live more fully, with less stress and greater ease.....