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CLASSES AND OFFERINGS

Group gatherings offer a chance to practice meditation in community, reflect on meaningful questions, and explore mindfulness in a supportive setting.


Sessions typically include guided meditation, brief teachings or reflections, and time for optional sharing or journaling.


Group practice can deepen your own awareness while also creating a sense of connection with others on a similar path.

Grounding + Centering: Holding Steady, Finding Ease

Learn ways to reset your nervous system and come back to center. This 60-minute experiential workshop teaches grounding practices—such as breathwork, humming and body scanning—that you can use anywhere, anytime. 

Meditation for May: Opening to Hope

Mexican sunflowers arranged in a circle with a large sunflower in the middle

Early May marks the midpoint between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. As the days get longer and the world around us comes alive, it’s an invitation to reconnect with what’s stirring within. 

Still Becoming: Aging and Embracing Change

Mindfulness Foundations: Practices for Daily Life

Growing older deepens our awareness of impermanence. Through meditation, gentle movement, poetry and readings, journaling and discussion, this series offers space to explore what matters most.

Mindfulness Foundations: Practices for Daily Life

Mindfulness Foundations: Practices for Daily Life

This six-week course introduces awareness of body, feelings, thoughts and beliefs—practical tools to ground attention, reduce stress and approach daily life with more clarity, compassion and ease. 

Mindfulness for Fundraisers: Presence and Resilience

This eight-week series helps nonprofit fundraisers cultivate presence, resilience, and compassion, so you can navigate challenges more skillfully, deepen relationships and sustain your energy in a demanding field.

Finding Calm in the Chaos: A Series for Turbulent Times

This six-week series helps you meet the turbulence of today's world with greater presence and equanimity. The course focuses on grounding practices and cultivating a deeper awareness of personal values.

Grounding + Centering: Holding Steady, Finding Ease

Reset your nervous system and reconnect with your own rhythms.


In this 60-minute experiential workshop, you’ll learn simple practices you can use anywhere—to ease tension, calm yourself in stressful moments, or steady your attention. 


Together, we'll explore:


  • Breath meditation to calm and steady the nervous system
  • Humming and vocal toning to regulate energy and release tension
  • Body scanning to reconnect with physical sensations


You’ll leave with short, practical tools you can return to whenever you need to center yourself. All are welcome — no prior experience needed.


Cost: $25 (with a pay-what-you-can option for anyone who needs it). 


Registration: New dates coming soon 

Meditation for May: Opening to Hope

Meditations on the Seasons

Across time and cultures, people have organized their lives around the rhythms of the seasons—using stories and rituals to guide their survival and make meaning of their lives. The cycle of the year is marked by eight key points: the solstices, the equinoxes, and the midpoints between them. This eightfold pattern reflects nature’s cycles of growth, change, death, and renewal. In eventful times, this annual cycle offers a steady rhythm—an invitation to pause and reconnect with the world around us.


May Day

Early May marks the midpoint between the spring equinox and the summer solstice—a natural threshold of growth, energy, and possibility. As the days get longer and the world around us comes alive, it’s an invitation to reconnect with what’s stirring within. What’s lighting you up? What wants to take shape?


In our virtual time together, you'll enjoy:


  • A short talk on seasonal themes and histories of this time
  • Guided meditations and reflections
  • Time to journal or share 


Optional: Feel free to bring a candle, something to represent growth or renewal, or anything that connects you to the season.


Cost: $25 (with a pay-what-you-can option). Payment info is available on the registration page.


Registration

Both sessions are the same. To register, click the date that works best for you: 


Option 1: Thursday, April 30
7:00 PM–8:00 PM Eastern / 4:00–5:00 AM Pacific


Option 2: Saturday, May 2
12:00 PM–1:00 PM Eastern / 9:00–10:00 AM Pacific



Mindfulness Foundations: Practices for Daily Life

A friendly introduction to mindfulness for everyday living.


This six-week series is a supportive space to learn and practice the basics of mindfulness: how to pay attention to your body, breath, thoughts and feelings in clear, practical, compassionate ways.


Each week includes:

  • A 60-minute live session
  • Guided meditations and brief discussions
  • Tools and practices for noticing where your attention goes and how to bring it back with intention


You’ll also receive weekly resources and mid-week guided “booster” practices to help the learning stick.


Cost: $150 (sliding scale spots available)


Registration: New dates coming soon

Still Becoming: Aging and Embracing Change

A compassionate exploration of aging, meaning, and change.


As we grow older, life’s impermanence becomes clearer—and we face both the gifts and challenges that come with time. This series is a reflective, guided space to explore what matters most, how we respond to change, and how we care for ourselves in the process.


Across 12 sessions, we’ll reflect on aging through:


  • Short talks and reflections
  • Meditation and inquiry practices
  • Gentle movement
  • Poetry, readings, and journaling
  • Group discussion 


You’ll also receive:


  • Weekly recaps, recorded meditations and other resources
  • One individual session with me to discuss or practice whatever you wish


Cost: $300


Registration: Dates coming soon—subscribe to my email list for more info. 

Mindfulness for Fundraisers: Presence and Resilience

Tools for managing the work of fundraising.


Nonprofit fundraisers face unique challenges—navigating relationships, deadlines, expectations, performance goals, and personal wellbeing. This eight-week virtual series brings practical mindfulness tools into that real-world experience, helping you stay grounded, resilient and effective.


Each week includes:


  • A 60-minute live session
  • Short talks and guided meditations
  • Space to reflect on the joys and stresses of fundraising


You’ll learn new ways to:


  • Respond to stress with clarity and calm
  • Connect with donors and colleagues authentically
  • Protect your energy and avoid burnout


You'll also receive:


  • Weekly resources and recaps
  • Eight mid-week “booster” meditations to reinforce the week's themes  and support consistent practice
  • One individual session with me


Cost: $200


Registration: New dates coming soon 

Finding Calm in the Chaos: A Series for Turbulent Times

“We were made for these times. It’s not that we are so special. It’s that we are being called by the world itself to come forward and serve the world with our unique gifts and talents.”  —Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate (2019–2022)


Mindfulness practices to help you stay grounded no matter what’s happening.


Life today can feel overwhelming. It's important to steady ourselves—because taking care of ourselves helps us care for the world around us.


This six-week series offers practical ways to steady your attention, meet difficult emotions with kindness, and bring what matters most into view—even in the midst of stress and uncertainty.


Sessions combine guided meditation, short talks and reflective conversation.


We’ll explore:


  • Grounding attention in the body
  • Responding to distress with awareness, compassion and care
  • Reconnecting with what brings meaning and purpose
  • Ways to bring mindful awareness into everyday life


This series is accessible to newer and experienced meditators (though if you're brand new to meditation, consider an introductory course first).


Cost: $150 (sliding scale available)


Registration: New dates coming soon

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I send occasional emails with upcoming classes, guided reflections, poems, and seasonal practices. Join the list to stay connected.

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