Valerie Spain

Valerie Spain is a mindfulness mentor and teacher with a 30+ year vipassana meditation practice. Her nontraditional career path led her to be an entrepreneur, doula, author, passionate writer and visual artist. Valerie brings incredible creative energy to teaching. Her joyful guided meditations and talks focus on paying tender attention to the present moment. She is sensitive to poignant life moments as portals to self-awareness. Portals found in nature, relationships, and creative practices in any of the arts. Valerie teaches what she has found to be true. Mindfulness practices, writing and art-making—as well as caring people—helped her in the aftermath of domestic violence, to recover from an eating disorder, and to live successfully with type 1 diabetes. It’s not about fixing or changing. It’s about letting go of whatever binds us to suffering. Along with the suffering and chaos of this world, it is possible to revel in joy and creativity. “The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses it.” ~Sri Nisargardatta

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