I started meditating in 2015, right at the moment life got complicated. I was starting a new relationship, a new career, and my nervous system wasn't quite keeping up with either.

Where It Began

Ideas about enlightenment appealed to me, but in the near term I was looking for a way to sit in a work meeting without my heart racing. To feel something difficult without it hijacking my whole day. Mindfulness seemed worth trying. It worked, but not quickly, and not the way I expected. Over time, something shifted. I stopped just managing stress and started actually meeting my experience with more ease. I remember the first time I sat through one of those high-pressure meetings and realized I had more attention free - attention I could actually put toward the people in the room and the problem we were trying to solve. That felt like something worth sharing.

Why I Still Practice

Since then, practice has become one of the organizing principles of my life. I sit at least twice a day; not out of discipline, but because I can directly feel the difference. More groundedness. More resilience. More capacity for genuine joy. I've also found that mindfulness makes everything else richer: communication, creativity, philosophy, movement. It's less a separate activity and more a lens that makes the rest of life a more joyful exploration.

Over the years I've committed deeply to both study and practice. I've completed one to two retreats per year since 2016, including formal programs, peer-led formats, and two month-long retreats that changed how I understand what the mind can do.

How I Teach

What I bring to teaching is simple: I know what it's like to start from scratch, to struggle with consistency, and to eventually arrive at a place where practice feels like one of the great privileges of being alive. I teach the Unified Mindfulness system, a clear, secular, outcome-oriented approach, because it's what I trust, and because it gives people real skills they can actually feel working.

My formal training includes the Unified Mindfulness Pathways program and a Nonviolent Communication intensive, alongside ongoing relational practices in circling and a mixture of movement disciplines like yoga, tai chi, and dance.

If you're dealing with stress, trouble sleeping, or just a mind that won't quiet down, I'd love to help you find what this practice can do for you.