3 Meditations to Give You Your Peace

(& maybe put you to sleep if you need it!)

Aug 22, 2024

∙ Paid

pro tip on flower arranging from this absolute amateur “home florist” (like “home cook,” get it?). Arrange things at varying heights. Don’t be too precious. Let it be a bit too wild.

hi there!

I’ve been puttering around on this Substack for a few months now, so happily getting to exercise my muscle memory for writing, which is a part of my work that I really love to do, but have taken a step back from in the past few years.

I’m so grateful that this space that has felt like a writing playground where I can explore, share, and connect with you all. It’s gotten me started on my first novel (!) and I’m bringing some coherence to a long-held idea for a meditation book I’d like to write. (Things take the time they take!)

My day job is teaching meditation and yoga and running a brick & mortar studio in the Hudson Valley. I also host retreats (internationally & in Upstate New York). I sometimes run group coaching programs. And work 1:1 with clients with my “applied meditation” coaching framework, which is basically guiding my people (who are often stressed out, burnt out, or just seeking really f*cking vital & alive creativity in the ways they work and live each day!) through a process of assisted self-inquiry and teaching them solid tools of stress management, self understanding, and presence that they’ll use for a life time. I also let people Vox me for immediate burnout relief ;)

I’ve been doing this work for 10+ years now as my full-time work in the world. It’s taken on SO many iterations (and there will be many more). But I feel really grateful to no longer be a burnt-out Big Law corporate attorney (eeep!) and instead get to be barefoot at work everyday.

I’m driven in my work by connection, creating community, my own creative vitality, pleasure, ease, and freedom over my time / attention / and energy.

I’m not sure why I’m sharing all of this now, but I feel like I’m at a natural moment of things shifting a bit again. Becoming even bolder and more vulnerable in my work(which is TERRIFYING). Taking new chances on things that might very well fail or I might be actually really bad (like the novel!) because I am so curious about these things and I can’t not do them (which is how I know they fit in somehow into this larger body of work over a lifetime!).

I’m about to take the next 10 or so days “off work” (quotes because I’ve got two young kids, so it feels like I’m literally always working!)

And I’m going to spend that time shaping this Substack into a more cohesive and consistent format. I have a suspicion that I will turn it into a meditation podcast (free for anyone!) — because guiding meditations, teaching meditation, and meditating are the things that come most naturally to me. It’s work that doesn’t feel like work. It just feels like breathing (which it also technically is 🤣). It just feels like BEing me.

It’s easy for me to lead meditation everyday, at any moment.

And you know what? I’m letting myself lead with ease right now. That feels really damn good to me.

And I’ve got to walk my walk. If my work is about sharing ease, I’ve got to embody it myself.

For my paid subbies, I’m thinking about offering a theme for each month — maybe dropping a longer essay (and recording the audio version of it too?), some questions for self-reflection / journaling, and even perhaps a live meditation meetup each month? (but probably not — LOLZ — because I’m going for ease and you can already find me here doing that!).

I’d LOVE to hear your thoughts, comments, suggestions on what you’d like to see more / less of here. Especially if you’ve been reading along for these last few months (THANK YOU, YOU GORGEOUS ONES!).

Please leave me a comment // message me directly if you have something to share or suggest.

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