About Me

No performance

I don’t perform wellness.

I’m not interested in presenting a polished version of spirituality, making grand claims about transformation, or telling you that I have found the answer. I don’t believe meditation is about becoming a more impressive version of yourself.

I don’t have a guru, and I don’t claim to be one either. I respect the teachers and traditions I have learned from, and I’m grateful for what they have taught me. At the same time, I believe we have to remain responsible for our own discernment. A teacher can offer knowledge, experience, and guidance, but no one else can do our soul-searching or exploring for us.

We can learn to listen deeply enough to recognize what is true for us, while remaining willing to question even our own assumptions.

Questioning is part of the practice

I am naturally curious, and I question things. A lot.

I question what I am taught. I question the stories we tell about meditation and spirituality. I question the ways ancient traditions are packaged, commercialized, and sometimes stripped of their cultural and historical context.

I care about where practices come from, and about the people and traditions from which we have learned them. I don't want to extract what is useful and convenient while ignoring everything else.

That doesn't mean I have all the answers. Quite the opposite.

I think integrity sometimes means being willing to say, I don't know.

What I believe

I believe attention matters.

I believe that contemplative practice begins with honest attention to our own experience, without immediately judging it or trying to change it.

The self is the starting point, not the destination.

When we learn to pay attention to our thoughts, our feelings, our bodies, and the world around us, we may begin to notice things we had previously overlooked. We may become more available to beauty, to difficulty, to other people, and to the reality of being alive.

For me, this is where contemplation and connection meet.

And I believe transcendence has a place here, too: not as an escape from life, but as an opportunity to experience what lies beyond the mind’s constant activity.

How I teach

I don't promise healing, salvation, enlightenment, or a particular outcome.

What I can offer is my attention, my experience, what I have learned, and a space in which you can practice and explore for yourself.

I believe a teacher's role is not to manufacture an experience for someone else, but to create the conditions in which practice can happen.

That requires presence, honesty, and care.

It also requires humility. I am not standing outside the human experience, teaching it to everyone else. I am in it too.