the sanctuary of PRESENCE

Pathways into mindful living, guidance & community

an invitation to practice

I help people cultivate presence, quiet the inner critic, deepen compassion for self and others, and untangle from thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, and habits that may compromise well-being or the fulfillment of your deepest aspirations. Nurture the capacity to connect with your inner wisdom, respond with clarity and care to life’s challenges, and move through your days with greater ease, calm, and focus. Choose the pathway that resonates with you:

  • Mindfulness Meditation & Spiritual Wellness Classes—Gather in community to explore presence, heart-centered awareness, and practical mindfulness tools.

  • 1:1 Integrative Mindfulness Coaching or Meditation Practice Sessions—Personalized guidance and support as you integrate mindfulness and inner wisdom into life’s changing currents.

  • Mindful Life Mentoring—Small-group sessions for ongoing reflection, shared support, and deepening practice over time.

  • Self-Paced Mindfulness Meditation Course—Explore guided practices and reflections at your own pace.

Specialized Pathways:

  • Mindful Clutter Coaching—Transform your environment and your relationship with possessions as part of your mindful living journey.

  • Mindful Photography Mentoring—A presence-based approach to nature photography that invites a deeper, more intentional way of seeing—rooted in awareness, curiosity, and connection with the natural world.

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PATHWAYS TO PRESENCE

GROUP Programs

  • Group programs offer accessible entry points into mindfulness practice, grounded in presence, compassion, and practical application.

    Through group sessions, you’ll receive guidance on developing a meditation practice that serves your deepest intentions and fits within your daily life, while building foundational mindfulness skills that support wise, responsive engagement with life’s challenges.

    These offerings invite you to practice meeting both ease and difficulty with greater awareness and kindness—individually and together. Programs may be customized to meet the needs of libraries, schools, organizations, or community groups, and can be offered as one-time sessions or multi-session series.

    I also offer pre-recorded content featuring my nature photography and videos as a calming, contemplative backdrop.

    • 60-minute group sessions offered live on Zoom or in person

    • A safe, confidential, inclusive, and supportive space

    • Guided meditations and reflective talks that explore both your inner and outer landscape

    • Practical guidance for establishing or sustaining a mindfulness practice

    • A sense of shared presence and community

    • Replay recordings for select premium offerings

    • Sessions may be hosted in my Zoom room or through your organization

    • Each session typically includes guided meditation, a brief instructional talk, and optional discussion or Q&A

    • Participants are muted during guided meditations

    • Sharing is always optional, and you may choose whether your camera is on or off

  • These programs are well suited for schools, libraries, retreat centers, businesses, organizations, and community/friend groups. I’ve developed and facilitated a wide variety of well-received, research-backed programs for adults and children alike.

    Many offerings can be adapted for staff development, lunch-and-learn sessions, one-off workshops, or multi-session series. You’re welcome to browse the catalog or reach out to customize a program that best fits your needs.

mindful life mentoring

  • Mindful Life Mentoring offers a deeper way of living the mindfulness teachings—held within a small, supportive community.

    Through ongoing small group meetings, we explore how mindfulness can be practiced within the realities of daily life: its joys, challenges, uncertainties, and sorrows. Together, we learn to meet what is arising with presence, curiosity, and compassion.

    Think of the mentoring group as a circle of spiritual friends, with a mentor holding space—supporting you in noticing habitual stories and patterns, gently shifting out of them, and returning again and again to the present moment, where choice and wisdom reside.

    This path emphasizes integration and embodiment rather than fixing or achieving specific outcomes. It is especially nourishing if you value community, shared reflection, and deepening practice over time.

    • Small-group mentoring sessions with a consistent community of kindred practitioners

    • A safe, confidential, inclusive, and judgment-free space

    • Personalized support in applying mindfulness teachings to real-life situations

    • Guided reflection, inquiry, and practices

    • My role as a mentor holding the container, alongside the shared wisdom of the group

    • Downloadable resources and access to my private library of instructional and meditative videos

    • Groups meet regularly over Zoom for a defined period (e.g., four months), with the option to continue

    • Group composition generally remains consistent during that time

    • Each session includes time for guided practice, reflection, and sharing (always optional)

    • Some meetings focus on a particular theme; others respond to what is most alive for participants

    • Suggested practices and reflections may be offered between sessions

    • Communication between sessions is decided collaboratively by the group

1:1 integrative mindfulness coaching & practice sessionS

  • Through custom-designed sessions, I support you in finding your way back home to presence—where your natural wisdom and compassion are already available.

    Mindfulness coaching focuses on bringing mindful, loving awareness more fully into your daily life and relationships. Together, we meet what is present—thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, habits, and circumstances—so you can respond with greater clarity, steadiness, and care.

    This work emphasizes applying mindfulness tools to real-life intentions and goals. We identify where you are now and where you feel called to be, and use mindfulness practices to support that movement—without striving, fixing, or self-judgment.

    This is not therapy or counseling. It is a supportive, contemplative coaching relationship rooted in presence, awareness, and skillful action.

    I also offer 1:1 meditation practice sessions to deepen your formal practice and support the integration of mindfulness both on and off the cushion.

    • 60-minute private sessions offered via Zoom

    • A confidential, supportive, and nonjudgmental space

    • Attentive listening and gentle inquiry

    • Personalized guidance in mindfulness practice and daily-life application

    • Support in easing into a more settled body and clearer, steadier mind

    • Help untangling from limiting stories and beliefs that contribute to stress or reactivity

    • Guidance in noticing thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns with greater awareness and kindness

    • Downloadable resources and access to my private library of instructional and meditative videos

    • My experience as a trained mindfulness teacher and mentor, paired with your lived wisdom

    • Sessions are 60 minutes and take place over Zoom

    • We meet on a regular cadence (weekly, biweekly, or monthly), depending on your needs and intentions

    • Each session is shaped around what is present for you, along with any specific goals or aspirations you are working toward

    • Together, we co-create an agenda aligned with your needs and intentions

    • Sessions may include guided mindfulness practice, reflective dialogue, and practical ways to integrate awareness off the cushion

    • An optional shared Google document may be used to track insights, reflections, and takeaways

    • Optional practices or reflections may be offered between sessions to support continuity and integration

PARTICIPANT REFLECTIONS

  • “Susan has made a powerful impact at a time when so many people are struggling with stress, uncertainty and a loss of connection with themselves and others. Susan’s programs have been a respite for me. Her sessions gave me the tools to make it through some of life’s most challenging situations.”

    -Kim S.

  • “As a psychologist, I recognize the value of Susan's work. From speaking with others, I know that the sessions have served as a reliable resource to help navigate life and stress. The classes help people learn how to ease their burdens, and how to enrich and potentially save their lives.”

    -Barbara L.

  • “My participation quickly and positively changed my life. Susan's instruction combines a wonderful blend of spirituality and practicality that has benefited me in so many ways.”

    -Ellen G.

  • “Susan Meyer is a well-trained mindful meditation expert. I saw her three times in preparation for surgery in May 2025. Not only did Susan completely customize my private meditation, she recorded each session and included extremely useful follow-up information. Susan was knowledgeable, sensitive, and caring, and showed me ways to effectively cope with my anxiety. I highly recommend her.” -Dale K.

  • “Over these last five years of Zoom meditation sessions, you have taken me through a lot of challenges. When I am not connected through technology, it is your voice I hear. It takes me to a place of focus, peace and presence. For this I am grateful.”

    -Lori L.

  • “Susan creates a safe haven for us at a time when there is a mental health crisis in our country. Her classes offer a safe harbor.”

    -Tracy B.

  • “Thanks so much! Today's class literally moved me to tears! I felt so much love it was overwhelming!”

    -Course participant

  • "Susan's sessions are rejuvenating, educational, insightful, and full of understanding and compassion - very valuable to the heart, spirit, and mind."

    -Pixi M.

  • "Coming together as a group to share in Susan’s insights and to support one another has been life-changing for so many. We are a kinder, more mindful and more loving community for being a part of Susan’s programs…and this has a ripple effect."

    -Kim S.

  • "It is clear that you are making a significant impact on the lives of the community members who attend your program! The things people say during the programs about how they have used the tools you have taught them, and how they see things in different lights now are wonderful to hear."

    -Librarian, Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library

  • "Susan's mindfulness course made me realize that every daily activity is an opportunity to be present. Presence and peace are just one deep breath away. I am so grateful to Susan for sharing her kind wisdom. The course continues to change my life on a daily basis."

    -Patti C.

  • “I am utterly amazed by how these sessions have brought me different perspectives on experiencing and managing life. You are most definitely fulfilling your purpose on earth. These sessions have been wonderful.”

    -Annette O.

  • "Susan has a soothing voice and explains exercises clearly and thoroughly. She has a calm and gentle presence and teaches with a thoughtful, relaxed pace. She is very good at breaking things down so they're easy to understand."

    -Course participant

  • "Susan's mindfulness sessions are teaching me to release the past and live in the present. In the present, at this moment in time, is where true happiness is! Mindfulness practice allows me to be more compassionate to myself, family, and others."

    -Kim K.

  • “"Susan's warm, gentle, reassuring, empathic approach, paired with vast information and experience is very effective. The mindfulness techniques include various ways to cope with life's challenges, with guidance suggesting how to individualize as needed."

    -Barbara L.

  • “I'd meditated daily for a while but was having trouble staying with it during some big life transitions. Susan's program is just what I needed to get back to daily meditation, especially because of Susan's teaching style."

    -Course participant

  • “I can honestly say that attending these regular sessions have allowed me to become a more calm, appreciative, and compassionate person - able to more fully enjoy the "non-tangible" moments in life."

    -Joe F.

  • "You seem to be able to drop my anxieties to zero. You are teaching me to observe my inner beast rather than battle it. And this beast that drones on about my failings and fears is not very nice. It causes me to lose sleep frequently between 2 and 4 am, which also makes me sleepy during the day. I am so grateful for your sessions."

    -Heidi K.

Mindful clutter clearing is another doorway into mindful living.

Our inner and outer environments are deeply interconnected. Through this work, mindfulness is brought directly into your relationship with space, belongings, and the stories they carry—supporting clarity, release, and alignment in very tangible ways.

mindful clutter coaching

    • Create a structure and plan for your clutter clearing journey

    • Know where to begin and what to leave for last so it won’t slow you down

    • Discover the emotional roots of your clutter so you can clear it at the very source

    • Hone your ability to discern how objects in your home affect your energy

    • Keep going when you get stuck, lose momentum, or feel overwhelmed

    • Create releasing ceremonies to let go of sentimental and inherited objects honorably

    • Experience spaciousness and clarity, and make room for wonderful, new possibilities to come into your life

    • Figure out where/how to donate, sell, or get rid of your stuff

    • Experience clutter clearing as an empowering, transformational process

    • Me taking you step-by-step through the entire clutter clearing journey or targeting a specific area or category

    • Initial discovery session and action plan included with multi-session packages

    • 1:1 private coaching session(s) with me

    • A safe, inspiring, judgment-free space to create the results you want

    • Guided "inner journeys" to discover what is at the heart of your clutter and what you want to make space for

    • Downloadable questionnaires and resources to deepen your decluttering journey

    • Access to recorded video lessons

    • Email check-ins to share progress, successes, challenges, goals, and insights

    • Tips for photographing sentimental objects prior to releasing them, or let me photograph them for you

    • Feng shui tips

    • Our sessions take place over Zoom

    • Meetings are scheduled on a regular basis or as needed

    • An action plan is co-created to help you achieve your specific goals

    • We use an interactive Google doc for setting your intentions and sharing takeaways and goals from each session. The document allows you to remember what we cover in our sessions and to have everything in one place.

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