One size does NOT fit all !

Many people are attracted to the promise of mindfulness or meditation.

Perhaps friends or health professionals may have urged you to try mindfulness to help reduce pain or stress or to improve your relationships or be more successful or fulfilled.

Or you may sense that mindfulness - learning to open to the power of present moment awareness - could be a doorway into tapping something deep within, your deeper potential for happiness, purpose, and aliveness.

But many who try meditation, or to be mindful, quickly give up in frustration. Others may work with mindfulness for a period of time - months or even years - but eventually hit a wall or drift away.

“I just can’t stop thinking,” people often say. Or “I just can’t sit still that long.” Or “I’m too busy. I just can’t put in the time it takes.” Or you may start to feel guilty about taking time for yourself away from your family or more important tasks.

The core problem underlying so much of this frustration is that one size doesn’t fit all. There is no one right way to practice mindfulness. Mindfulness will not work for you until you find your own particular way of working with mindfulness and discovering your unique path to awakening to your power of present moment awareness.

Mindfulness is not about stopping our thoughts, sitting still, wasting time, or becoming self-absorbed. It’s about discovering our own particular unique path to happiness, purpose, aliveness, healthy relationships, fulfillment, in each moment, by cultivating the fullness and power of our immediate here-and-now experience. Mindfulness isn’t just sitting on a cushion by yourself, stilling your mind, or producing some special blissful state. It’s a path of discovery that unlocks your unique and deepest capacities that are just below the surface of your present moment awareness.

The Enneagram: a Doorway to your Unique Path to Awakening

The Enneagram is a powerful map that can help open that unique door of discovery, specific to you.

The Buddha emphasized three core foundations of mindfulness practice - of body, heart, and mind - to free us from dukkha, unnecessary suffering. 

The Enneagram is a powerful map of nine particular ways that this suffering arises. It points to nine ways we have become deeply conditioned to lean on unconscious habits of reacting, rather than responding from our deeper capacity for sensitivity, compassion, and intelligence, moment by moment. Over our lifetime we tend to unconsciously fall into one of these nine types of unnecessary suffering. Understanding and becoming mindful of our particular type liberates us from this suffering and points us forward to realizing our deeper, more spiritual capacities of instinct, feeling, and attention. 

I invite you to join us, to discover and work with your particular Enneagram type using the three core foundations of mindfulness practice: opening to your deepest capacities for sensing, feeling, and intelligence.

Join us in discovering your unique path to your deepest potential

Learn how to free yourself from your particular unconscious “blind spots,” your specific deeply imbedded patterns of sensing, feeling, and thinking that keep you locked in unnecessary suffering. 

We invite you to explore the Enneagram through Mindfulness - a convergence of these two powerful approaches - by exploring this website, as well as through our talks, guided meditations, coaching, groups, retreats, and forthcoming book. You may want to begin with the Basics first before exploring more deeply.