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:
The Shape of Awake®
Meditation and the Alexander Technique
June 21-23rd Weekend Program
June 21-29th Full 7 day Retreat
Dorje Demna Ling
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia
This meditation retreat brings principles from the Alexander Technique, Focusing, and hands-on work to meditation practice for a unique and deeply transformative program.
News
Last 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
In 2015, 2019 & 2020 (and, I will be there again Jan./ Feb. 2022!) I attended the 7-week monastic winter retreats in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, led by Pema Chodron. I had the good fortune of attending Pema, participating in the retreat and teaching as well. A wonderful article was posted about the work I did 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