Grounded Presense for Changing Times

I spend my time with real humans: seniors, caregivers, adults living with health anxiety, and communities carrying a lot of invisible stress. Through guided meditation, gentle sound with the deeply skilled Jason Coile, and straightforward grounding practices, I offer spaces where people can breathe, listen, and reconnect with what matters. Sessions can happen in senior living communities, hospitals, churches, community centers, or in small groups online.

I’ve studied contemplative practices for decades—Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, metaphysical traditions, and more. My daily meditation practice includes guided and silent sits, sound, somatic movement, breath work, Kirtan, and gentle yoga, and I’m on the path to Reiki Master. I live with a beautiful family and three very opinionated cats.

My work is shaped by training like The Power of Awareness with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, RAIN with Tara Brach, and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP) with the Awareness Training Institute, Sounds True, and the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, class of 2028. It’s a real privilege to study with such accomplished teachers, Zen masters, and fellow students from around the world.

I practice with local sound circles and musicians, the Rakhma Love and Harmony Holistic Center, The Florida Community of Mindfulness (Thich Nhat Hanh lineage), recovery communities, and plant medicine communities in and around Tampa, Florida.

Before this, I spent decades inside large organizations working on design, innovation, and transformation. I led efforts that launched award‑winning products and scaled new capabilities across global teams, which quietly touched millions of lives. That work taught me a lot about the growing gap between stated values and lived experience—and what happens inside people as systems change around them: how it shapes mental health, identity, self‑worth, and the ways stress settles into the body.

También hablo español conversacional básico y tengo certificación TESOL de la Universidad Estatal de Arizona para enseñar inglés. I live in one of Florida’s agriculture regions and hope this work can reach farmworker and rural communities as well.

My goal is simple: work in service, create calm in chaos, offer real stress relief, and lift kindness and joy where I can.

If I can support you, your teams, your relationships, or your communities, please reach out.

Have a beautiful day and be so well, 

Con compasión, 

Shel

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