A heart-centered approach to attention, awareness, and being fully present.

​

I teach meditation through a heart-centered, attachment-oriented approach to the traditional 9 Stages of Mind Training.

​

Rather than beginning by asking the mind to focus harder, we begin by creating a ground of safety, connection, and loving awareness. From there, we learn to meet the body, emotions, thoughts, and nervous system with curiosity and care, gradually developing greater stability of attention.

​

The practice is gentle, but it isn’t passive. Over time, you're able to stay present with more of your experience, become less pulled around by habitual reactions, and cultivate greater steadiness, openness, and freedom.

​

Meditation, for me, is also a spiritual practice. It can open us to intimacy with life, a sense of belonging, and to dimensions of awareness that language doesn't quite reach. No particular belief or tradition is required. Curiosity is welcome.

 

How we practice

Our practice may include grounding and nervous system settling, loving awareness, attunement to the body and emotions, concentration, breath practice, compassion, open awareness, and simply learning to rest more fully in what's here.

​

The traditional 9 Stages give us a developmental map for strengthening and stabilizing attention. I teach them from the understanding that attention develops most naturally when it rests on a foundation of safety, kindness, and connection.

​

Distraction isn’t treated as failure. Thoughts, emotions, sensations, and protective responses are part of the practice. We learn how to include them without losing our ground.

​

As attention becomes steadier, practice can gradually open into greater spaciousness, intimacy, and awareness.

​

Group Meditation Classes

Group classes combine guided meditation, short teachings, reflection, and conversation.

​

We build practice gradually, beginning with grounding and loving awareness and developing greater stability of attention over time.

​

Classes are appropriate for beginners as well as experienced meditators who are interested in a more relational, embodied, and heart-centered approach to practice.

​

In-person classes coming soon in the Bethesda, Maryland area.

​

My training

I’ve practiced meditation for more than a decade and completed 3.5 years of formal meditation teacher training with John Churchill of Planetary Dharma.

​

My teaching is also informed by psychology, attachment theory, nervous system awareness, and my ongoing exploration of Buddhist and Christian mystic traditions.

​

I care about meditation as something we live, not only something we do on a cushion. What we cultivate in practice shapes how we meet ourselves, relate to others, encounter difficulty, experience beauty, and participate in the world.