Find a Teacher - Certified Meditation Teachers

				
Paul Barrett


Gilbert, AZ

Paul began working with Shane Wilson several years ago focusing on Vipassana Meditation and Buddhist studies. He has completed the 300 hour Certified Meditation Teacher Training program offered by The Meditation Learning Center. Paul has studied different spiritual practices for 23 years and enjoys helping others on their path. Meditation that focuses on Stress Reduction is Paul's expertise. He looks to enhance the great building relationship between Buddhism and Scientific Research.  
Contact information:
480-458-7352
barrettarizona@msn.com. 

Carmen Rose

Paso Robles, CA

Carmen is a certified teacher in both meditation and yoga.  She  has been practicing these ancient traditions for most of her adult life and is passionate about weaving these practices into her daily activities as an effective means of improving health and overall well-being.  Carmen unveils the mystique behind meditation and yoga, bringing true clarity and practical everyday application for daily living.

To learn more about Carmen visit Yoga Inward at www.yogainward.com
805-296-1287

Connie (Constance) Koch,

Aberta, Canada  

International Certified Alcohol and Drug Counsellor

Email:  cdkoch@telus.net

Frank Blankenship

Lubbock, Texas

Frank Blankenship is a certified Vipassana meditation teacher and registered yoga teacher with additional training in Yin yoga practice. Frank spent many years in a corporate environment and in 2006 began a new journey that led to discovering the tremendous benefits of mindfulness and movement. This led to completion of a 200-hour vinyasa yoga training program and completion of the 300-hour meditation trainer program offered by Shane Wilson at the Meditation Learning Center as well as additional training in Yin yoga practice and basic anatomy. Through Barefoot Elements Wellness Frank and the Barefoot team offer individual private instruction at your location or ours, group instruction for your personal event, corporate group training, for special events or ongoing.  We are honored to invite you to go Barefoot with us and find the joy, stillness and peace you need in your life.

“The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.” -Socrates

Read more: http://www.keepinspiring.me/socrates-quotes/#ixzz5S5NAGqo7

BarefootElementswellness@yandex.com

806-236-7973

Christine Hicks Brassell

Phoenix, AZ 

Christine has been a practicing Naturopathic physician in the Phoenix Metropolitan area since 2008.  While her interest in Buddhism has been ongoing for 25 years, her dedicated Vipassana meditation practice has been just about 6 years in Phoenix and Mesa.   Christine is a regular attender at PHX Vipassana, where she frequently facilitates sits for beginner/guided and silent meditation.  She also attends Phoenix Self Realization Fellowship with her husband, and is learning about kriya yoga. 

Christine has been a student of Shane Wilson since 2013, and completed the first teacher’s training program in 2014.  They have collaborated on a few classes, with The Meditation Learning Center and the greater Arizona Mindfulness community.  She manages the Facebook group, Arizona Mindfulness Meditation.  Christine has taught several beginning meditation classes at Kharma Life Center in Uptown/Central Phoenix.  Her interests in teaching include adults and the elderly, beginners of any spiritual tradition that want to learn meditation without religion, incorporating mindfulness and meditation into health and vital living practices.  Additionally, she is comfortable in a hospital and hospice setting, both for patients and with families.  Contact is drchristinehicks@gmail.com

Maureen Bradley

Scottsdale, Arizona

Owner/Instructor, The Mindful Life, LLC maureen@themindfullife.us

Maureen is a Meditation Instructor and Mindful Eating Coach.  She is available for both group and one-on-one work.  Maureen holds a degree in Healthcare Administration and has managed Senior Care facilities for a number of years. Her personal practice of vispassana, or insight meditation, lead her to The Meditation Learning Center and Shane Wilson’s instruction.  

Maureen has personal experience and is experiencing success with mindful eating as a means of freedom from a lifelong struggle with eating disorders.  She readily connects with the elderly population and has extensive experience in teaching mindfulness and meditation in senior living communities.  

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Marc Biren

Mesa, Arizona

Marc has been practicing meditation since 2009 and became a certified meditation teacher in 2016. He is facilitating a mindfulness-based emotional intelligence (MBEI) model for at-risk and/or incarcerated youth. The curriculum includes training in: mindfulness meditation, emotional intelligence, communication, conflict resolution, and various resourcing and resiliency building skills. Participants develop greater self-awareness, improved impulse control, and greater social awareness giving them a new positive vision for their lives. 

Contact information:  mnmzoo@gmail.com

Richard Rodgers

Natchitoches, Louisiana

Richard has been engaged in personal yoga practice for seventeen years. He Successfully completed 200 hour yoga teacher training at Circle Yoga Shala in Jasper, Arkansas in 2012. Successfully completed 200-hour yoga teacher training at Wild Lotus Soul School in New Orleans in 2015. Co-owner and operator of Lotus In The Pines Yoga Studio in Natchitoches since 2001. rodgerslotus@gmail.com

Patricia Courtney

Lynnwood, Washington

"The appearance of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves". Khalil Gibran 

I am grateful to have had the opportunity to travel and live in a few parts of the world which allowed the opening to multiple visions, cultures and acceptance. As a Massage Therapist, I meet people of all kinds who are experiencing pain and stresses. 

It is not about comparisons and displays.  We all work at developing coping tools and aspire to be happier.

Meditation is a part of my daily life and helped me greatly to go through challenges. It makes me become a better person as I like the way it makes me feel, how I grow, deal with others and extend my mind and my heart. I am simply happier.

And it is for this simple reason, to share happiness, I want to teach Meditation and its benefits to as many as possible, so they see the magic and beauty in themselves.

The classes do not have any religious associations, it is primary about Meditation and its journey.

Everyone has the wish, at different level, to make our world better.

Group classes: Mondays 7pm – 8.30 pm

One on One: appointment only

Email: pmc.monnier.courtney@gmail.com

Phone : 425 319 6009

Jan Weir

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Jan is a certified yoga teacher (Sivanada ,1975), and has practiced meditation for the same period. He follows a tradition called Zen Theosophy which is a blend of Eastern and Western thought and practices. You can read his articles here: http://zen-theosophy.com/articles/

On the worldly side He is a semi-retired litigation lawyer who teaches a third-year course in business law at the University of Toronto (Canada), and is the co-author of the Critical Concepts of Canadian Business Law (Pearson).

Jan believes that every person, especially those on the spiritual path, have an obligation to influence our society. To practice what he preaches, he has a book in progress on the laws and regulations that are the hidden causes of income inequality. Having acted for major international banks and accounting firms, he brings a very different point of view from economist writers. He blogs on this topic on medium.com which is picked up by Rantt Media: https://rantt.com/more-for-the-few-less-for-the-many-how-little-known-laws-allow-ceo-pay-to-skyrocket-ff7639ef2566

Contacts: 

FB- https://www.facebook.com/janweirlaw

Twitter-@JanWeirLaw

Meetup- https://www.meetup.com/Zen-Theosophy/

Law Website-http://jdweir.com

416-599-6991

Shirley Atkinson

London, Ontario, Canada

Scottie Putman, Ph.D.

Okemos, Michigan

Email: o-sowelu@comcast.net

 

Scottie teaches management, leadership, creative thinking, and organization development, as well as meditation. She is devoted to exploring new perspectives on the ways we view and manage our organizations and ourselves, believing that by changing the way we think we can learn new ways of working together, learn to work with honor, respect each other, and create a livable, sustainable future of potential. In addition, she is a certified Strengths Advocate, a certified practitioner of Esoteric Healing, and a certified Reiki master and teacher.

 

Scottie offers opportunities to learn meditation in her courses and consulting (both individuals and organizations), with special attention on working with and for animals. She is co-owner (with her husband Terrill) of O-Sowelu, LLC, Energy Healing for Animals and their People. “To heal” literally means “to become whole”. (Visit the website at: o-sowelu.com)

 

She believes that meditation and energy work have much in common: according to Dr. J. Geffen in an audio program offered by the Institute of Noetic Sciences, healing is “focused action and intention wrapped in the arms of surrender," to which she asks, is not meditation focus and awareness “wrapped in the arms of surrender”?

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Boon Truong-Quang

 

Elgin, Illinois

 

Email: boontivatq@gmail.com

Optimum Health

The Classical Indian Yoga for Householder Education Centre

  

Boontiva Truong-Quang has been spreading the message of good health, peace of mind, moral strength and spiritual enlightenment at Optimum Health, her private yoga studio, for decades. She teaches that yoga is the movement that transcends race, religion, gender, educational, economical and geographical barriers.  She concentrates on channeling the power and energy of Yoga education groups into a wellspring of wisdom that satisfies the thirst for the multi-faceted benefits of Yoga.

 

“Traveling Yoga aims to spread the good news of yoga through education in school systems, Corporate Wellness Programs, conferences, retreats, hospitals - (including cardiac patients, diabetics, those with lower back pain, HIV positive, addictions, psychiatric problems, respiratory patients), Veterans and Indigenous Peoples and hospice.”

 

Boontiva utilizes The 8 Fold Path of Patanjali and emphasizes meditation in a holistic and traditional way in an authentic setting, conducive to internalizing concepts. Consultation available on/off location, via Skype.

 

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Ann Frampton

 

Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

 

Ann is retired and has been practicing meditation for twenty years. She has recently completed the Teachers of Meditation Program and is now offering individual and group meditation classes. Her background is in human services and education working both in the field of early childhood education as well as with adult learners, many with disabilities and learning challenges. Annʼs current Mindfulness Meditation Practice includes teaching mindfulness meditation to adults, children and community groups. She hosts weekly classes for beginners and more seasoned meditators, while also providing mindfulness meditation instruction in individual or group sessions. Teaching techniques used to enhance the meditation experience include breath awareness, relaxation guided meditation, singing bowls and music. 

 

Ann can be reached at:

ann.frampton@gmail.com

Facebook/Messenger : Ann Frampton 

 

Sandy Orkin

Sherman Oaks California

Sandy Orkin began his practice of Meditation more than 40 years ago with TM and Silva. When he migrated from Chicago to Los Angeles in the early 80’s  and joined a meditation group taught by Master Teacher Leong Tan from Malaysia where he studied various  teaching/practices of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. A personal study of Eastern Philosophies ensued. Later Meditation guidance came from former long term accomplished students (some therapists) of Leong. During the past 10 years, Sandy has attended retreats, learned Mindfulness (Kabat-Zinn/Kornfield style) and he has attended a 10 day silent retreat in Northern California practicing Vipassana Meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka . For the past few years Sandy has been teaching Meditation/Mindfulness to Hospice volunteers, actors and privately. His newly established website is www.themeditationtree.com . Now certified by the Meditation Learning Center, Sandy is hoping to broaden his teaching base among individuals, businesses, and schools. His email address is sandyorkin@themeditationtree.com Sandy is a voice actor (commercials & audio books, etc.) , a hospice volunteer and leads grief support groups. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandyorkin/

Brittney Van Matre

Amsterdam, Netherlnds

Brittney is a recovered worrier, writer, traveler, spirituality seeker, and small business owner at Löv Teas (www.lovteas.com). After spending 6 years in a perpetual state of worry, she overcame panic and anxiety through self-designed tools, meditation, and world travel. She has since traveled to over 30 different countries, lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and is determined to help guide others on an inner journey toward stillness – living lives of adventure, in the face of fear. 

Brittney enjoys sharing her love of meditation, self-development, and personal discovery at her blog: www.brittneyvanmatre.com.  

She additionally thrives off creating new premium, organic, loose-leaf teas at her company Löv. Löv botanicals are sourced ethically and a portion of sales go back to marginal family farmers worldwide. 

Social Media Connections:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brittneyvanmatre, https://www.facebook.com/lovteas

Twitter: https://twitter.com/brasstackslovin, https://twitter.com/LovTeas

Instagram: @sitwithit, @lovteas

Contact: Brittney@brittneyvanmatre.com or hellolov@lovteas.com