Welcome
Thank you for visiting. My website is here to share my practice of Reflective Meditation. I know from personal experience that it’s hard to maintain a regular meditation practice, especially in the beginning. If you’d like personalized support and help with developing a meditation practice that works for you, I’m available for meditation support online and in person in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I’d be happy to share what my practice is like and assist you in your practice.
I am associated with SatiSangha (Newbury Park, CA), Pine Street Sangha (Portland, OR), Vacaya Sisters (online), and Still Mountain Meditation Center (Ann Arbor, MI)
A New Approach to Meditation!
Mindfulness can be transformative. Reflective Mindfulness Meditation is a form of insight meditation that is open, receptive and flexible. What happens in your meditation can be an opportunity to learn about yourself. I have over 20 years of meditation practice and teaching to share with you.
Benefits of this practice for myself and others have included:
- Increased ability to manage stress
- Less worry
- Greater self acceptance
- Less self judgment
- Greater sense of well being and happiness
- Increased ability to feel kindness and compassion to myself and others (even with the difficult people in your life)
This is an opportunity for you to learn how to meditate and improve your life. I am opening my online group to new members. It’s open to those who have meditated before and to those with no experience. If you’re interested, please contact me and I will send you a link to the group.
Get Personal
Would you like to discuss how Reflective Meditation can work for you? I would love to find out more about your meditation practice, why you are interested in meditation, and how I can help you expand and deepen your practice. If you want to get more out of meditation, I am here to help. Let’s get started!
Recent Posts
Resistance
I recently had a request from some group members to talk about resistance because it was becoming noticeable in many of their sittings and their lives. They wanted to know what to do about it. These are some of the questions I asked: Resistance is biologically driven especially against the…
Navigating the News
While I was on vacation, I made a concerted effort to limit my news intake. It was easier because I was on the beach or in a new town and wanted to explore the area, go to restaurants and museums, or take a hike in a nature preserve. I regularly take…
The Two Arrows
I’m writing this after my 3rd day in New Port Richey, Florida where I’m staying at a lovely house called The Mermaid’s Cove. There are dozens of statues of mermaids throughout the house of all sizes including a 10ft metal sculpture of a mermaid holding a pearl and her tail…
Scottish Highlands and Our Practice
There is a book written in the ’40’s called “The Living Mountain”. It was written by a Scottish woman named Nan Shepherd. She spent her life exploring a mountain in a small area of Scotland in the Highlands and wrote a book about what she learned. She apparently spent hundreds of days…
Reinvigorating Your Meditation Practice in 2024
Time is so elastic. Sometimes it feels like it goes so fast, at other times it drags. This is how it’s been for me this month—-getting over a bad cold, holiday preparations, and getting ready for a trip all in the same month. Time was galloping along. But I didn’t want this month…
The Listening Ear
As humans, we are hungry to be heard. In fact, we will do anything to accomplish that—scream, yell, cry, beat the walls, post graffiti, you name it. It’s so essential to our well-being that when we’re not heard, it’s physically and emotionally painful and results in loneliness, anxiety and depression. Our…