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!
June 20 – 26th, 2025 (Full 5 Day Retreat)
– Program dates: June 21 – 25
– Travel days: June 20 and June 26
Weekend option:
June 20 – 22nd, 2025 (Weekend Program)
– Travel day: June 20 – arrive between 3:00 and 6:00 pm
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.
In person: September 5 – 7th, 2025
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
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
I just got back from a 7-week meditation retreat in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, taught by Pema Chodron. (I have had the good fortune of attending this retreat, teaching, and helping Pema for the better part of 10 years). Please see a wonderful article about my work with the retreat participants – Check it out!
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