12 sessions recommended
We’ll begin with an introductory session to establish your intentions, discuss your current (or desired) practice, and explore your familiarity with your inner landscape. We’ll examine your mental and emotional patterns, somatic awareness, relationships, and significant insights to determine a baseline for orienting and growing your practice. We’ll also consider auxiliary practices that can support your awakening beyond formal seated meditation.
Together, we’ll then devise a personalized practice plan, including session frequency and an outline of content to support your spiritual growth and unfolding understanding. Beyond initial planning, our ongoing sessions provide continuous support, allowing us to adapt the practice as you evolve and encounter new insights or challenges.
Our exploration will draw on elements from neuroscience, wisdom traditions, subtle energy awareness, and nutrition, while also considering all aspects of a healthy lifestyle. You’ll learn to integrate your insights from meditation into daily life, fostering greater resilience, fulfilling relationships, clarity, and sustained peace.
My Path
My first meditation experience was in 2010 with Isham Ishaya, though a sincere interest didn’t take root until I began practicing periodically with Ramesh Bjonnes during my 200-hour yoga teacher training. A daily meditation practice solidified in late 2013, supported by Will Hamilton PhD, and Lisa Sherman through their 40-Day Introduction to Meditation series. From that point forward, my life began to exist somewhere in the space between householder and monastic. Michael Johnson, my 300-hour yoga teacher, further supported my first two years of daily practice with mentorship and a weekly meditation group.
I attended my first residential meditation retreat with Douglas Veenhof in April 2013. In December that same year, I sat my first 10-day Vipassana retreat at Dhamma Patapa in the S.N. Goenka tradition. Cathy Darnell, the former Asheville area assistant teacher for the Goenka tradition, provided invaluable support through regular weekly group sits and monthly half and full-day sittings, also facilitating my decade-long volunteer service as website administrator for Dhamma Patapa.
I also benefited greatly from the guidance of meditation teachers Vincent Horn of Buddhist Geeks and Ronya Banks of Asheville Insight Meditation, until my move from Asheville to Massachusetts. During my time in Massachusetts, in addition to my daily practice, I sat semi-regularly with the Skillful Means meditation group led by William Jackson Psy.D., at Dhamma Dhara, and with the Northeastern University Buddhist Group.
Throughout the years, I’ve benefited from the teachings of countless sanghas and teachers with whom I’ve retreated, including Tara Brach PhD, and Rabbi Jeff Roth. More recently, I’ve been retreating with Rupert Marques and am currently undertaking Dharma Teacher Training with Ronya Banks. My consciousness has been profoundly transformed by Dharma over the years. The journey has deepened my inner world and clarified my perception to meet life with compassion and wisdom.
If can have an overview of my retreat experience here and a quantitative summary of the course of my practice over the years by exploring my Insight Timer data here.
