I didn’t set out to become a spiritual teacher. Life had other plans.
I was the kid with questions that wouldn’t let go: Why are we here? What happens when we die? Is this really all there is? While other kids were focused on fitting in, I was chasing something I couldn’t name.
At eleven, I had my first spiritual awakening. It introduced me to what I call my Inner Teacher, a wise guiding presence that’s been with me ever since.
Those experiences set me on a long, winding journey across traditions and continents. Eventually, I spent several years, on and off, high on a mountaintop in India with a 120-year-old enlightened master. He was not what you’d expect. He used laughter, provocation, and paradox to dismantle every spiritual assumption I had. He showed me that real spirituality isn’t about rising above life. It’s about stepping fully into it.
What came out of all that is how I teach now: Eastern depth, Western practicality. Spirituality that holds up just as well on a Tuesday afternoon as it does on a meditation cushion.
My Approach
I’m not interested in quick fixes or spiritual highs. They don’t last, and I think deep down, most people know that. Over decades of teaching, I’ve developed an approach built on actual experience. What I keep coming back to is this: you already have an Inner Knowing, an intuitive wisdom that’s been there all along. Most of us have just been talked out of trusting it.
Everything I teach comes back to one thing: reconnecting you with that Inner Knowing. My job is to help you clear out what’s in the way — the limiting beliefs, the mental clutter — using practices you can realistically sustain. We tend to think we’re supposed to be building some “new and improved” version of ourselves. I don’t see it that way. This work is about remembering who you are at the deepest level, and learning to stay in contact with it.
A Note About Private Sessions
I’m often asked if I offer one-on-one sessions. I used to, but I’ve stepped away from them. While individual guidance can feel helpful at first, over time it tends to create exactly the kind of dependency I’m trying to undo. At some point, you have to take the training wheels off and ride the bike for yourself.
I’m not looking for followers. If you follow me, you’ll end up at my destination, not yours. My role is to help wake up fellow seekers. That’s why my work is built around group experiences, writings, and teachings designed to build your own spiritual self-reliance.
And Beyond That…
When I’m not teaching or writing, I’m outside with my dogs, in the garden with dirt under my nails, or staring up at the night sky, still wondering at it. I believe how we live matters as much as what we believe. And that the most profound spiritual truths often arrive in the simplest, most ordinary moments.
That’s what I hope to offer you: a way of seeing that turns the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Spirituality That Works