How To Feel Better
Experientially exploring the vast space of modern techniques and ancient practices for increasing well-being, while maintaining critical thinking.
Presented in collaboration with Praxis Community University.
Class Recordings and Slides
- The Core Model: video | slides
- Getting to Know You: video | slides
- Body and Signal: video | slides
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Attention and Processing:
video |
slides
Bonus: Feel Good guided meditation - Integration: video | slides
Spring 2026 Schedule
6:30pm - 7:45pm Pacific on the following Tuesdays: February 3, 10, 24; March 3, 10.
The week including Feb 17 is a break week for Praxis.
Location
Serra Mesa, San Diego. Address provided to enrollees. Livestream available for remote enrollees.
Course Description
This course presents a coherent and actionable model of well-being that integrates cutting-edge understanding of the brain, millennia-old contemplative traditions, and modern therapeutic techniques.
Through this lens, we'll explore a wide range of approaches to enhancing our subjective experience - meditation, somatic work, breathwork, therapeutic modalities, movement practices, and more. We'll try things out together, poke at what doesn't make sense, share what resonates, and help each other navigate this space intelligently.
Each class will include a lecture, some shared practice, and a discussion. We will also have "homework" - one practice each week to try on your own time. Homework will take no more than 30 minutes per week.
Curriculum
- The Core Model: experience is an active, recursive process
- Getting to Know You: mindset, toolkit, building vocabulary, pitfalls
- Body and Signal: improving the inputs to our awareness
- Attention and Processing: handling the signal better
- Integration: putting it all together, possibilities
Your Instructor
In 2021, despite "doing well", I was suffering from multiple mental and physical issues that severely reduced my quality of life. Since then, I've spent well over a thousand hours learning and doing things to try to feel better. More than just raising my quality of life drastically, it's also been the adventure of a lifetime. Now I'm excited to share a few of the things that I've learned along the way. Professionally, I've worked as a software developer, teacher, and tutor.
Course Fees
Required contribution: Only your attention.
Optional contribution: At the end of the course, I'll send out an email with resources and links; it will also contain a donation link. Consider donating 1/3 of what you think the course was worth to you. Donations will be split 90-10 between your instructor and Praxis administration.
Questions?
Applications
Applications are closed for the current term. For the latest info on upcoming Praxis San Diego classes and other gatherings, visit their web page.
Previous Offerings
How To Feel Better was offered in October 2025 as a four-session class entitled The Wellbeing Toolkit.