I Teach Meditation
I thought it was obvious - but apparently it's not. This is important. Please read.
I’ve been teaching meditation for a LONG time.
I think I first started teaching sitting meditation back in the early 90s when I was teaching Iyengar Yoga in Chicago. But I started teaching in earnest around 1996 when I was in my Guru’s ashram. Over the course of these 30 years - I guess partly because I am so Gemini - I have pivoted my public language about what I do many times.
I guess I got bored.
I never got bored with meditation, but I did get bored talking about being a meditation teacher. Meditation is a very misunderstood thing and over these 30 plus years, different versions of “meditation” have become very popular and common. If you say you’re a meditation teacher, they think you sit in a circle and ring a gong, or they assume you teach some kind of Buddhist meditation, or they just glaze over. Or they ask “What style of meditation?”
I guess I’m a snob, but I hate it when people ask this. Meditation doesn’t have styles. And I have resisted over the years trying to package meditation into “my brand” or “my style”. This was never done in our tradition. Meditation is vast and beyond styles and branding.
So I have focused on talking about other things: Bhakti, Tantra… the mystical and transformational teachings of the yoga traditions… For me, meditation is ASSUMED in all of these. But we assume at the peril of clarity.
It seems that people really don’t know it, but - I am a teacher of meditation.
And, I hate to sound conceited, but - I’m really good at it.
I’m really good at leading people into meditation, and really good at helping people learn what meditation methods suit their temperaments and needs. I’m good and helping experienced meditators go deeper and find new levels. And I am really good at helping people who think they can’t meditate to do it. I know many many many different meditation dhāranās (techniques), and know how to help you to make the practice effective and enjoyable. That’s the main thing - if it’s not enjoyable you won’t do it.
You can practice with my guided meditations on Insight Timer.
And you can also be trained to meditate on a whole new level or teach meditation to others. If you’re interested in doing deeper meditation training, reach out to me directly. Maybe it’s time to do another long-term teacher training. Let me know if you’d be interested in this.
That’s it. I just needed to clarify that.
I know the world feels like it’s burning. What to do? I think there is a lot we can do by stopping, sitting, and letting medicine of (good, deep) meditation do it’s work.
And if you want to dive DEEP DEEP DEEP into meditation (sitting, walking, dancing, writing meditations), come to Wallkill New York this May and join our Nectar of Silence Retreat.
Details and Retreat Application Here