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Walk #30 Yr 1 Victoria West Park West Fresno

August 25, 2015December 22, 2016 By fmw

REFLECTION on Walk #30, West Fresno from Victoria West Community Park at Clinton and Brawley. Five FM Walkers started off on a cold, very foggy Saturday morning. But this intersection was already up and going. Victoria West park is big and awesome, and hundreds of families with soccer players filled up the foggy fields and…

Walk #29 Yr 2 Barstow and 6th, St. Paul’s Newman Center

August 25, 2015December 22, 2016 By fmw

Reflection on Walk #29, from St. Paul Newman Center. January 24, walkers began at Newman Center on Barstow and 6th. Four walkers were first timers. All were very engaged and participated with silent walking and then shared their insights. One walker said that this whole neighborhood was new to her as she had not driven…

Walk #28, Yr 1 Herndon and Marks and Van Ness Lakes

August 25, 2015December 22, 2016 By fmw

Walk #27, Yr 1 Cedar and Kings Canyon

August 25, 2015December 22, 2016 By fmw

Reflection on Walk #27 – Jan 10 starting at Cedar and Kings Canyon in the parking lot in front of the old UMC building. This walk started here because of the Fresno Bee story on the new youth mental health in-patient program finally coming to Fresno here in this building. I wanted walkers to experience…

Walk #26, Yr 1 Gettysburg and Palm

August 25, 2015December 22, 2016 By fmw

REFLECTION on Walk #26 – Gettysburg and Palm, December 20. Six mindful walkers started at 8:30 from the church parking lot at Palm and Gettysburg. After a brief loop east onto Van Ness and along the famous Christmas Tree Lane, walkers strolled west to the train tracks at Marks. This was a beautiful wet clear…

Walk #25 Calwa park and the longest legal graffiti wall

August 25, 2015December 22, 2016 By fmw

REFLECTION on Walk 25, Jensen and Chestnut, starting at Aynesworth elementary school and walking west toward 99 on November 22. Seven walkers on this beautiful fall morning. We met Charles who gave us a grapefuit. We met Lupe and her son David who have many dogs because they told us that people abandon their dogs…

Walk #24, Yr 1 Fresno Art Museum and west over 168

August 25, 2015December 22, 2016 By fmw

Walk #23, Yr 1 Chestnut and Belmont, St. Helen’s

August 25, 2015December 22, 2016 By fmw

Reflection on Walk 23 from St. Helen’s School: This interesting walk took us through four quadrants around the center point of Hwy 180 and Chestnut Ave. There was noticible noise of Hwy 180, but within a block or two away from the highway, large lot homes with old trees brought quiet and birds. These neighborhoods…

Walk #22, Yr 1 McKinley and Fruit

August 25, 2015December 22, 2016 By fmw

REFLECTION ON WALK #22 (11/2/14) – from McKinley and Fruit, through neighborhoods, across the tracks, through a opening in the fence, along Golden State Highway, under 99, along the frontage road by Rescue the Children, back over 99 on Clinton, and through neighborhoods. For some of the streets, they are getting ready for big trash…

Walk #21, Yr 1 Ashlan and First

August 25, 2015December 22, 2016 By fmw

Walk #21 from Walgreens at the corner of Ashlan and 1st to Dakota and Cedar. Sunday, Oct 26, 7:30 am. This walk was such a wonderful surprise of experiences. The first walker started the reflections by saying she thought this would just be predictable neighborhoods and an uneventful walk. We talked about how fun it…

Fresno Mindfulness Walks will lead a Saturday morning walk on January 29, 2022, beginning at 10 am. at 271 N. Glenn Ave., Fresno, CA 93701 (the home of Craig Scharton).

The walk will be about 3 miles, at a stroll to medium pace, occasionally on uneven ground, and take about an hour and a half. By walking mindfully and without talking, we will experience the Lowell neighborhood in new ways. At the conclusion of the walk, we’ll gather back at Craig’s yard and spend a few minutes talking about what we discovered about ourselves and the neighborhood.

Walks are free and require no RSVP. Look for the Facebook event to share with your friends. For email notifications, sign up in the yellow bar at the top.

Lori Clanton

Lucky Leader to Fresno Mindfulness Walks

Fresno Mindfulness Walks are weekly opportunities for people to walk together for a 4 mile route through a different Fresno neighborhood each week. Walkers practice active mindfulness by attending to the sights, sounds, smells, feelings. Walkers do not talk to each other on walks, but we do greet people we meet along the way. The walk location and exact start time are posted just a few days in advance. All walks are free, require no RSVP, and anyone is welcome to join one walk or many. To learn about upcoming walks, you can sign up for a weekly email in the yellow bar at the top of this website and/or LIKE and follow the FMW Facebook page.

To learn about the routine that begins each walk and read some of the resources that have inspired FMW, check out the resources page.

Weekly walks are about 4 miles and take about an hour and a half. Walks are at a medium pace, often on uneven ground, and sometimes take longer than expected because walkers see themselves as curious travelers lingering to observe or going around a different way.