Meditation

Learning to meditate and maintaining a meditation practice over time can be life-changing.  It slows us down, assists us in releasing stress, develops mental focus, and shows us the way to inner peace.  Even more importantly, it allows us to get to know ourselves, identify our wounds, our drama, and to separate our true selves from those parts that limit us in our daily life experience.  It is possible through meditation to develop a different relationship to our pain, our depression, anxiety, and struggles of any kind.  This can become a life style  I call “Living Consciously”.
 It is not only freeing and empowering, but gives us the ability to change our lives and be more whole.

My first meditation training was in 1980.  That was the beginning of a profound change that began to take place in my life.  As I began to understand myself at a deeper level, the truth of who I was and my mission was unfolding to me.  I entered the healing arts field through massage therapy and reiki.  I later studied at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and A Society of Souls where meditation was fundamental, and I struggled.  Having investigated those struggles and working through them, over the years I began to develop meditation courses for others discovering they, too, were struggling.  

My introductory courses in meditation draw from many spiritual paths allowing each individual with their varying energetic, emotional, psychological, spiritual, chemical and egoic make-ups to discover in-roads to themselves.   In addition to instruction, I offer a safe space for them to be held where they can explore the limitations and possibilities they are experiencing, at their own pace.

It has been said by spiritual masters and experts in enlightenment that when we receive initiation and guidance from a high-level spiritual teacher in the context of a 10-year minimum commitment to one spiritual discipline, we develop a healing presence and complete a foundation from which to explore, understand, and share other mystical and sacred paths as well.   For this I am grateful to have had with Jason Shulman, founder of A Society of Souls in Princeton, New Jersey.  I had the good fortune to work with him for 13 years, in addition to working with many other teachers along the way, tasting and sampling the Divine in its many manifestations of devotional, disciplinary, inspirational, healing and evolutionary teachings.

My Philosophy. 
Woven into my approach of teaching meditation is the development of Kavannah, a Kabbalistic term for intention.  The intention is to be the best we can be.   We can only achieve this by being willing to look at the parts of us that are not our best, those parts that we like to hide or avoid.  By honestly observing those parts and by being willing to tolerate whatever uncomfortable feelings that may surface in doing so, an inner healing can take place.  As we enter our journey, our own levels of integrity, ethics and moral fiber will emerge for examination.  It is my hope that we all hold the highest standards for ourselves in those areas.  Self-reflection happens in the most effective and most deeply changing way in meditation.  Developing this skill allows us to “Live Consciously”.   Being human, perfection is not an option.   Living Consciously is the best we can do, allowing us to have integrity, affecting all parts of our lives, relationship with ourselves, others, and ultimately to our happiness.