I just keep going back to the body. Thank you for this opportunity to discover and connect yet another piece to this lovely creation I’m working on. Thank you for being a beautiful role model/ mentor for me. We may not always know the impact we have on others but know that I always carry a piece of you with me. You hold a safe space for me to be me, and I am forever grateful for that. Even as I write this, a little piece of me is healing.

- Kim Greenfield RYT-200

Thank you for the very specific ways of tuning back into the body and heart. It now feels natural to offer even the difficult person metta.

I feel quite lucky to have been led to your classes and sangha during the pandemic. I love and respect your real-ness and sincerity in your personal sharing and offerings. I especially appreciate that you offer the secular path so that I don’t feel friction between Buddhist philosophy and Judaism, which I practice and question and is inherent to my identity.

May we be happy and peaceful, healthy and strong, safe from inner and outer harm and May we be filled with ease.

- Miriam RYT-200

In light of my challenges with flashbacks and dealing with the trauma, I found the practice today very, very helpful.

Savasana was so deep that I stayed for quite a while. I took advantage of the bolster and closed with a restorative child pose.

- M. Marshood RYT-500

I did a bit of reading about Buddhism starting 15 years ago but I have never jumped into a meditation practice. There is so much to learn and it’s all so interesting and practical to me that I am grateful to have connected with you to be able to dive deeper and start a regular practice.

Your teaching style is based on obvious years of study and passion for helping others. You’re a fountain of knowledge and resources served up with a heavy dose of love and compassion. It’s like learning a new language and I love it all. Thank you!”

-Karen Williams, Student

I have learned to sit with my difficult emotions to help free myself from the self-judgment of my inner critic who attacks my sense of self-worth. These false stories inflict pain associated with the hindrances of desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness, and doubt.

Insight Meditation has shown me that all emotions arise and pass away and it is my reactions that prolong the suffering after pain. Through Sam’s teachings of the Brahma Viharas, I now have a tool box full of resources that help me deal with the pain including loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity.

- Winchell D.

Peaceful, energizing, inquiring of where this leads. I think that this meditation will be with me for quite a while. Thanks so much for all of the insight that you provide to our sangha.

— Carol Alison

It's been a long time coming, but these truths are really settling into the fiber of my being. The inward-shining flashlight is starting to make some headway. I appreciate everything that Sangha has done to show me the way, by example. What a phenomenal group of life forces. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your presence and your care.

-Thom Mason

With abiding gratitude and love~

- Avry Budka

I've never even thought about this work before but intuitively been craving it and needing it forever. So maybe I will use a code word, like, bananas, and that will mean all of the things I've written to you in the past. But with way less words... Bananas!

-Thom Mason

And I know you find it a joy to teach and to inspire; not everyone can reach into hearts and minds the way you do. I am grateful for our connection, the sangha, and any teachings I can navigate with you.

Thank you so much for all you are and for being so embodied in what you offer to others.

- Heather Kramer