Individual Lessons & Group Classes:
Hope offers individual lessons, semi-private lessons and group classes. Please send an email if you’re interested in scheduling an appointment or joining her next class.
Upcoming Workshops & Retreats:
Finding Bodily Ease in Meditation and in Life
A 5 Day Meditation Retreat
This retreat brings principles from the Alexander Technique, Focusing, and hands-on work to meditation practice for a unique and deeply transformative program.
Come experience how a direct connection with your body transforms meditation practice and your life!
September 25 – 30th, 2026 (Full 5 Day Retreat)
September 25 – 27th, 2026 (Weekend Program)
Dorje Demna Ling
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia
Cultivating the Wisdom of the Body
Participants report profound benefit from this gentle but deep approach that accesses the wisdom of the body through Meditation, Alexander Technique with an emphasis on Focusing to be more present, free up blockages, and befriend ourselves.
October 2 – 5, 2026
Dorje Denma Ling
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia
This workshop is highly experiential and includes periods of meditation, exploration of the felt sense through Focusing, and gentle hands-on bodywork.
News
For the last 10 years I have been attending an annual 2 month winter meditation retreat at Gampo Abbey, Pema Chodron’s monastery in rural Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Besides participating in the retreat, I have been assisting Pema for many year. This year Pema taught on Shambhala the Sacred Path of the Warrior, an enlightened manual for these dark times!
I also worked with the participants in the shrine room on their Shape of Awake®, (otherwise known as meditation posture) which is always a pleasure for me.
Susan Barrett, a winter retreat participant made what she called “snow beings” – 53 of them! – all over the grounds of Gampo Abbey. It was a study in impermanence. And, she made this video. Enjoy!
Last summer, my colleagues and I known as the Collaborating8, taught at an International gathering of Alexander teachers in Dublin, Ireland. We trained Alexander teachers for many years in NYC and for the last 4 years we have been meeting monthly to exchange ideas and experiential work. We will be teaching together again at the end of June at an Annual Conference of Alexander Teachers at Mannes School of Music in NYC.
The Collaborating8 taught Continuing Learning workshops at the Dublin Congress last summer and wrote an article about it that was recently published in The 13th International Congress Papers. Here it is – Check it out!
In April 2021, I was interviewed by Jonathan Bastian on the radio show A Life Examined on KCRW, an NPR station in L.A about Embodied Listening. We talked about how listening to ourselves helps us better hear what others have to say. My interview is 21:53 into the podcast. Check it out!
In Challenging Times, Your Body Knows What’s Needed Blog post about the Embodied Listening Retreat
Shambhala Mountain Center – Hands of Hope: The Possibility of Bodily Ease in Sitting Meditation
Teachings
Alexander Technique: The Alexander Technique is a hands-on method of movement re-education that teaches us to recognize and change long-term postural and movement patterns… Learn More
The Shape of Awake: Being upright is not just an arbitrary shape; it’s a perfect expression of meditation itself. In this week of intensive meditation practice, Hope will offer both… Learn More
Embodied Listening: Each person’s way of being in the world has its own physical shape and felt qualities. These unique patterns influence every… Learn More