Mindfulness Meditation Groups and Coaching for Those Living Abroad
Navigate major life transitions with mindfulness, survive and celebrate life abroad
Even in the midst of life’s hardest transitions, we can return to well-being, and begin noticing the tiny purple flowers by the side of the road. 🪻
“Why do you meditate?” Munindraji was once asked.He answered: “So I will see the tiny purple flowers by the side of the road as I walk to town each day.”
Life is one transition after another, or sometimes all at once. For those of us living abroad, these shifts - break-up, burnout, trauma, changing careers, getting sick, losing loved ones, losing entire democracies or ecologies - can be seismic. We are away from home, disconnected from usual support systems, navigating unfamiliar systems, switching between many cultures or languages in a single day.
Even in the midst of change and constant rebuilding, and perhaps especially then, we can begin to find our way back to well-being through mindfulness meditation - through cultivating awareness and compassion.
We can increase our inner resources, ground in breath and body, make space for our emotions, befriend our busy minds, and eventually, little by little, notice the tiny purple flowers by the side of the road.
If you are...
A foreigner, expat, or refugee in Europe, feeling lonely and disconnected from support systems at home, adjusting to a new country’s system and values, navigating multiple cultures at home, at work and in larger society,
Navigating a major life transition such as break-up, divorce, estrangement from family, infertility, pregnancy, expansion of family, moving, burn out, coping with trauma, loss of purpose, career change, unemployment, retirement, obtaining a visa or citizenship, sickness, death of a loved one, the loss of democracy, safety or dignity in your home country, anxiety about the climate crisis,
Feeling overwhelmed and disconnected from your body, heart, and inner resources,
Intellectually curious, emotionally self-aware, and growth-oriented (you want to do the work),
Open to or experienced in mindfulness, but need support integrating it into real life,
Has, has had, or would like to have a movement practice, such as walking, dancing, or yoga, to integrate with mindfulness,
Seeking safe and authentic connections (spiritual friends) where you are seen, heard, and supported.
Based in Europe or available during European timezones, Then...
You are one of us!
If you are...
A foreigner, expat, or refugee in Europe, feeling lonely and disconnected from support systems at home, adjusting to a new country’s system and values, navigating multiple cultures at home, at work and in larger society,
Navigating a major life transition such as break-up, divorce, estrangement from family, infertility, pregnancy, expansion of family, moving, burn out, coping with trauma, loss of purpose, career change, unemployment, retirement, obtaining a visa or citizenship, sickness, death of a loved one, the loss of democracy, safety or dignity in your home country, anxiety about the climate crisis,
Feeling overwhelmed and disconnected from your body, heart, and inner resources,
Intellectually curious, emotionally self-aware, and growth-oriented (you want to do the work),
Open to or experienced in mindfulness, but need support integrating it into real life,
Has, has had, or would like to have a movement practice, such as walking, dancing, or yoga, to integrate with mindfulness,
Seeking safe and authentic connections (spiritual friends) where you are seen, heard, and supported.
Based in Europe or available during European timezones, Then...
You are one of us!
About Me
I’m a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher and Coach shaped by many homes and life transitions. I bring 13 years of personal practice, and in depth-training from renowned teachers like Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. I help people survive and celebrate life away from home, find clarity, steadiness, and meaning. Mindfulness changed my life. I hope it supports you, too.
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What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness meditation is the practice of being aware of what is here and now in a kind, non-judgemental way, rather than being somewhere else like we often are - in the future, in the past, in our to do list, in our pain or in our stories. It is simple, but not easy. Like any sports or music practice, mindfulness is a skill we learn and it strengthen over time.
Hundreds of scientific studies show that mindfulness:
- decreases symptoms of stress, depression, anxiety, pain,
- improves sleep, focus, memory,
- decreases illness related distress,
- decreases the use of abusive substances,
- slows down cellular aging.
Practitioners report that a regular practice helps them:
- find an experience of inner safety, stability and resilience,
- be more present, positive and joyful,
- slow down and find an inner calm in the midst of chaos,
- get to know ourselves, and like who we are.
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