There are four fundamental components that provide the foundation for any good life. These same practices can give you life-enhancing skills to deal with triggers, reactivity, hopelessness and isolation. 

In fact, research shows how meditation can rewire the circuits in your brain so you can access your own wisdom and be guided from within.

Teaching others these skills, it became clear. When you can sort out the internal chaos, you can sit with yourself, reflect, contemplate, and listen to your own internal wisdom. 

The more you trust your own thoughts, feelings, body and heart the more you'll feel safer and more secure, empowering you to live more fully in your life.  

So that’s what this online course is about… are you ready to explore how these meditation skills can work in your life?  

Over time, with practice, these skills can radically transform you from the inside, under your control and at your own pace.

These underlying, unresolved body-mind patterns result in one of the main reasons post-traumatic stress disorder doesn’t resolve. The body, mind and heart, when affectively encoded with traumatic patterns, feels as if this is the only way it can be. 

Since it feels so REAL, it's easy to feel stuck, caught in cycles of despair and hopelessness. The disorganizing effect trauma has on the body-mind-heart takes over our lives.  

We need to understand:

• the disorganizing body-mind-heart of trauma
• how memory gets dislocated in time and space
• and the developmental disruption of attachment patterns that keep a person stuck in trauma reactivity. 

Neuroscience combined with the ancient wisdom traditions gives a conceptual understanding of how the brain is encoded – and better yet, how to shift those body-based patterns.  

There is a new path forward. 

Combining cognitive understanding of trauma disruption, attachment theory, body therapies, neuroscience, meditation and yoga, we now have access to changing the non-narrative imprinting.  

This course will look at the informal meditation skills we can apply through foundational practices of mindfulness, concentration, self-compassion and non-dual.  

Here's the thing...I’ve worked with thousands around the world to help reduce suffering from trauma. I've done this working individually with people, leading workshops, and writing three books.  

But when I first started out I was a mess, never wanting to get out of bed, frightened of people. 

I learned the path out of the mess the hard way -- dealing with my own trauma history while also being a long term meditator whose trauma history would erupt during my practices.  

It was hard. I couldn't understand what was happening. How was I able to be in my body before (training for triathlons, successfully practicing yoga and meditation multiple hours a day) to then not wanting to get out of bed, lost and confused? 

What I hung on to

If all the great wisdom traditions said there was a path out of suffering... well then I wanted that path! I wanted the way out. Not just when I was feeling good. I wanted to know how to apply those great traditions when I wasn't feeling good. 

Grappling with the complications I had to parse out the great teachings, adapting them to my situation -to the fact that I was living with trauma.

I wanted back into my body. I wanted to live inside myself without overwhelming trauma symptoms. 

I wanted the peace, calm, contentment that all the wisdom traditions say are possible -- and that I had before my trauma complicated my practices.

Obviously, now I’m in a different place, having integrated the practices I’ve designed to overcome my history...I now enjoy living in my present - and helping others do the same.  

And it all started with the simple meditation skills I’m teaching in this course. 

Now at this point, the big question is “How can this possibly work for me? I’ve tried everything… and meditation hasn’t helped.”  

"Meditation encourages a letting go – and there is a part of me that is so careful not to go where I have gone in those terrible states before."

"Meditating on breath and parts of the body is especially hard – leaves me feeling dissociated, that I'm a failure because I can't do it how I'm 'supposed' to."

"Meditation teachers don't realize that life is happening 'outside of me'. I look like I'm there - but I'm really not. That's hard when I want to fit in.”

I want for all of us to have a life of ease, where it's safe to explore the world, where we feel seen, known, valued, have a felt sene of belonging, where we can love and be loved.

"The course has helped me feel stronger, as though something fundamental had changed. I feel like each time I apply the practices I make a small step towards becoming more detached from whatever was so troubling. It had shifted. 

I can only think it is because you have been unflinchingly understanding and supportive." 

~ Mary (Perth, Australia)

"The videos helped me understand in a different way. They were short and to the point making it easy to try them on without getting overwhelmed or confused."

~Colin (San Francisco USA)

"The audios were astonishing, mainly because they seemed to answer questions I've been sitting with. After the second week, I felt remarkably calm and peaceful... I know I'll really value these practices. Thank you for making the recordings."

~ Jane (New York)

"I use the handouts all the time, referring back to them when I feel lost."

~ Alison (Glasgow, Scotland)

Sometimes we don't know how our history is effecting us --until something happens. 

When compensatory strategies are relaxed, underlying time capsules of history can flood us, making what was previously manageable no longer workable. 

This workshop is suitable for all levels of meditation practitioners.

• Anyone interested in meditation who has a trauma history
• Psychotherapists interested in meditation & yoga
• Meditation teachers
• Yoga teachers
• Body oriented therapists
• Acupuncturists
• Physicians, nurses
• Educators