I was born & raised in Saskatchewan and currently (once again) make my home here. In my offerings, brought together here at Kalyana Mitta, I'm drawing on my lived experience of place, mothering, daughtering, mindfulness teaching & course development, youth group leading and curriculum writing, creative programming for children, graphic designing, ongoing personal healing, changing relationship with the more-than-human world, as well as life and learning in countries and cultures different from my own.

Half a lifetime ago, I spent five transformative years living and working in Seoul, South Korea, which forever changed the way I experience life. Since that time I have sought to more fully understand what changed, and how. To that end, I have studied and taught Buddhist meditation and theory, trained in Shiatsu (bodymind therapy based on traditional Chinese medicine theory), and studied animist, shamanic & Daoist ways of knowing and being. In 2025, I graduated with a Masters degree in East West Psychology, with a concentration in Asian Contemplative & Transcultural Studies and a certificate in Spiritual Counseling. I am currently enrolled in Hakomi Practitioner training, a mindful, body-centered psychotherapy.

To these offerings I bring 23 years of Buddhist study & practice, a two year mindfulness teacher training (Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California at Berkeley), academic and experiential education in the East West Psychology graduate degree program at the California Institute of Integral Arts (CIIS) and training from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Residing in remote rural southern Saskatchewan, I am seeking to live more in alignment with natural rhythms and to attune more deeply to the more-than-human world and the mystery that holds it all. My days are spent reading, writing, drawing, studying, co-creating ideas for courses, meditations and creative exercises, procrastinating, cloud watching, talking with cows and my cat, walking in the prairie and learning to be in solitude. Quietude and isolation I’ve found, are simultaneously deeply rewarding and intensely challenging. I spend an inordinate amount of time on my computer.

I owe a debt of gratitude to my teachers, a few of whom I’ll name here: Thich Nhat Hanh, Luang Pho Viriyang Sirintharo, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Sharda Rogell, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Joanna Macy, Mark Coleman, Jun Wang, Sara Granovetter, Debashish Banerji, Sophia Reinders, Stephen Julich, Ishtar Kramer, Devdip Ganguli, and my foundation of family, friends & more-than-human kin.

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