Meditation and Mindfulness Coaching

Meditation instruction, which I call Mindpower™ coaching, is central to my coaching philosophy and practice. In my 45+ years of meditation study, practice, and teaching, I have found it to be the single most powerful psychological tool for facilitating personal transformation and greater wellbeing.

A woman peacefully meditates on a high, rocky outcropping, which overlooks the clouds below

Depending upon your interests and preferred frames of mind, our work in this area may include instruction and practice in any of the following meditation modes.

  1. Meditation fundamentals—we cover the basics of meditation practice including posture, alignment, breathing, leg positions, mental attitude, and ways to begin and sustain your at-home practice.
  2. Moving meditation—we explore moving meditation modalities such as qigong (Taoist yoga), tai chi chuan, bagua, flow yoga, and a wide variety of standing and walking meditations—all focused on improving your ease, balance, flow, and control in motion.
  3. Somatic meditation—we get in touch with our physical and emotional bodies through sound (mantra), progressive relaxation, sensory awareness, and meditations that focus on vital organs and energy patterns and pathways.
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  4. Breathwork—working with the breath is the foundational practice in many meditation systems and so we investigate many breath-based meditations from Zen, yoga, and qigong.
  5. Visioning—this includes forms of meditation and contemplation that promote life change by increasing motivation, goal-focus, self-efficacy, and a positive future vision.
  6. Mindfulness meditation—also known as insight meditation, mindfulness focuses on tuning in with greater sensitivity and awareness to what is arising here and now in your body, emotions, mind, and environment.
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  7. Healing meditation—qigong and yoga are both sources of meditations geared to healing your body, mind, emotions, and spirit. These practices involve the direction of healing energy into your vital organs, bodily senses, energy channels, mind states, and deep intentions.
  8. Visualization—we develop the capacity for the inner projection, and the sharpening and reshaping, of objects, images, scenes, desired states, and personal performances.

Creating a Meditation Practice that Works for You

Together we’ll discover the type of meditation that’s right for your personality and temperament and build a good foundation for integrating meditation practice into your life to support your ongoing progress. My clients who develop a regular meditation practice inevitably find it to be life altering. Astounding changes take place in people when they become more centered, focused, attuned, and relaxed.