Teaching & Retreats

Areas of teaching

• Relational mindfulness
• Buddhist meditation and Dharma practice
• Trauma-informed mindfulness
• Ecodharma and nature-based practice
• Mindfulness for BIPOC communities
• Young adult practice
• Retreats and daylongs
• Teacher trainings and facilitator trainings
• Mindful movement
• Group practice and community-based mindfulness

Dharma Homies

I am a co-founder of Dharma Homies, a community centered on relational, trauma-informed Buddhist practice, with a strong commitment to BIPOC communities and young adults. Through Dharma Homies, I lead relational mindfulness programs, teacher trainings, retreats, and community practice.

Retreats & group practice

I lead and co-lead retreats, daylongs, relational mindfulness groups, and ongoing practice spaces. Sitting meditation, relational practice, movement, and time in nature are often woven together, though the shape varies depending on the context and community.

Formats range from single-day intensives to multi-day residential retreats. Some are open to the general public; others are designed for specific communities, organizations, or training cohorts.

Young adults & BIPOC communities

I have extensive experience teaching teens and young adults, including through Inward Bound Mindfulness Education and Dharma Homies. I'm committed to practice spaces that are culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and genuinely supportive of BIPOC practitioners.

In practice, this means attending to how race, culture, identity, and belonging shape what's possible in relationship and community, and creating spaces where those dimensions can be named and included rather than treated as separate from practice.

Ecodharma & nature-based practice

My teaching includes connection with land, nature, and the more-than-human world as a dimension of Buddhist practice. I have served as faculty for UC Berkeley's Personal & Collective Climate Resilience course, and I bring an ecodharma lens to retreats, groups, and individual work.

Current offerings

• Dharma Homies

  Daily Morning Mindfulness, relational mindfulness programs, classes, retreats, and community practice.

  Practice with Dharma Homies

• Rooted in Relationship

  An 8-month facilitator training for mindfulness leaders, educators, therapists, and youth-serving professionals focused on relational, trauma-informed, and earth-centered mindfulness with adolescents and young adults.

  Learn about Rooted in Relationship

• New Year's Teen Retreat: NorCal

  December 28, 2026–January 1, 2027. Camp Via West, Cupertino, California. For teens ages 15–19.

  View Teen Retreat

• Upcoming Young Adult Retreat at IMS

  A young adult retreat at Insight Meditation Society. Details and registration link coming soon.

  View IMS Retreat

Background & training

• Buddhist meditation practice since 2003, with extensive time on retreat
• Current four-year Spirit Rock / IMS Teacher Training Program
• Three-year Organic Intelligence practitioner training in post-traumatic nervous system resilience
• Five years of psychophysiology and emotion research, including work related to the Cultivating Emotional Balance study