Buddhist Meditation Teacher
Transformational Coach
Relatefulness Facilitator
Hi, I’m Mitra. I teach meditation, facilitate group Relatefulness practices, and coach people through their unfolding. I help people through these practices so they can be a better friend to themselves, others, and the world.
I find my clients fit into two types:
One group are people who’ve devoted years towards personal development and spirituality but now struggle to integrate into daily life with questions around livelihood, community, and relationships.
The second group are high performers who have checked all the traditional boxes of success (health, fitness, relationships, money) but still feel like something is missing around meaning, love, and self-discovery.
In both cases, clients learn how to integrate their lives with meaning through connection to their innate love and wisdom through weekly online sessions.
My Background:
I completed seven years of full-time residential modern-monk training at the Monastic Academy (MAPLE).
MAPLE empowered me as its first, empowered meditation teacher. I led week-long retreats including co-teaching with Shinzen Young. I also taught daily 1-on-1 meditation interviews.
I have completed over 10,000 formal hours of meditation including three solitary cabin winter meditation retreats (totaling 200+ days).
I completed Aletheia Coaching Level 1 (2023).
At MAPLE, we started the world’s only residential community with weekly Circling practices and week-long immersions for 5+ years.
I also led week-long Circling immersions and workshops at universities, meditation centers, and groups around the globe.
I am certified with Circling Europe. I completed three of their SAS 6-month training programs (2016, 2017, 2018).
I was also a teaching assistant for two of their SAS programs (2021, 2022).
I also participated as a teaching assistant in Relateful’s LevelUP in-person program (2022).
I am also a facilitator on the Relateful online platform.
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From 2019 – 2022, I was also the Executive Director of the Center for Mindful Learning, a non-profit offering mindfulness and leadership programs.
Previously, I’ve been a programmer, lived in a RV across the country for two years, and completed a Masters at American University in Philosophy and Religion. Recently, I taught myself to build a cabin in the woods.
Mitra is also part of the core team of Madrona Meditation and advisor to Boundless Refuge. He is also the founder of the Guild of Bodhisattvas and the Hearth, a dharma house of former monastics, entrepreneurs, coaches, and bodhisattva working towards a more wholesome world.
You can also check out my Facebook or Twitter, I post a lot of draft writings there.