Meditation and healthy living

Practices and routines that help connect to our physical, emotional, and mental states in real-time are the core of healthy living. Meditation is a powerful and effective way to strengthen this embodied self-awareness. Paying attention to our internal experience activates our body’s innate self-healing and self-correcting abilities. It also empowers us to do things that will truly help us feel healthy and engaged with the world as we want to be. 

Meditation is based on an internal environment of friendliness, steadiness, and strength. From this ground, we learn to accommodate whatever arises in our present embodied experience without drifting into distracting thoughts or getting overwhelmed by strong emotions. Over time, meditation helps us bring our thoughts, emotions, and embodied experience into healthy balance. When confronted by stressful situations or difficult decisions, meditation helps us remain rooted in how we feel in our bodies, which helps us metabolize challenging situations and respond in the best way possible.

About Me

I have been meditating for 15 years and mentoring individuals and groups for nearly 10 years in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition. I believe the simplicity, precision, and embodiment of meditation practice inspires friendliness to ourselves, creativity, and contentment. Above all, meditation is a natural human practice that helps us fully engage our lives. I am so excited to be offering weekly online meditation gatherings, 1-on-1 coaching, and courses. I hope you will join me.

 Weekly Meditation Group

This group is an opportunity to learn, relax, deepen, and connect with other practitioners. It's energizing, enriching, and inspiring to gather with others who also practice meditation. Practitioners of any experience level are welcome.

Each week I will introduce specific theme or aspect of meditation before a guided practice of about 25 - 30 minutes. We’ll conclude with time for any questions and discussion.

My approach to meditation emphasizes friendliness, curiosity, and self-compassion. The essential point of meditation is to trust ourselves and give ourselves permission to feel however we feel. By doing this again and again, with the encouragement and inspiration of a community of practitioners, we begin to shift how we relate to ourselves and the world around us.

I also believe it’s important to connect our meditation practice with what is happening in our lives. All the challenges of 2020 - the COVID pandemic and the brutal election cycle, against a backdrop of environmental destruction and disaster - are making uncertainty, fear, and a non-specific sense of impending doom daily realities. And there are still the normal challenges of work, family, and life. I believe a regular meditation practice can help us through the stressful, scary, and reality-shaking times in which we live. It can help us show up as we want to when we are confronted by challenging situations in the future.

Who: Any experience level
When: Wednesdays from 7:30 - 8:30pm EST.
What: Guided meditation, with an opportunity for discussion and Q&A.
Where: Online! You’ll get a Zoom link after sending in the short form below.

How to Join

Please complete this short interest questionnaire. I will add you to my mailing list so you receive the weekly practice theme & the Zoom link to join.

Cannot Join Live?

I record the session and make them available within a couple of days by YouTube. Please complete the form to be added to my mailing list so that you can receive notifications when those recordings are ready.