Life Coaching/Meditation Instruction

Introduction: With respect to Meditation Instruction, my qualifications are a bit unique. I have practiced meditation for over 30 years, primarily in the Buddhist traditions. However, I can teach meditation either within or outside of a spiritual context. What tends to make a meditation teacher effective are not so much his/her words, as the experiential understanding behind those words. And what generally creates that understanding is the consistent practice of meditation itself . In other words, the mind training that meditation provides. This training of the mind and heart can happen in normal daily life , and it happens especially effectively in silent retreat. I have done countless silent retreats since 1985, and in recent years, for as long as two months at a time. I have been taught (in and out of retreat) by the most renowned Western teachers of mindfulness and Buddhist Insight Meditation, and in 2017, I was authorized to teach in the Western Tradition of Insight Meditation by these teachers. I delight in seeing people experience the results of meditation. Meditation allows us to see in ways that we have not before , or in ways that we may never have been able to imagine. It is a continual discovery, perhaps even an adventure. Meditation is freeing, and I love supporting people to find that freedom; the freedom, the peace and the quiet joy that emerge from an honest heart seeking to understand something bigger than stress or pain, something beyond the reference points that have limited our lives.