Buddhism & Meditation Mentoring

 

Engaged Buddhist training to transform your life and activism

 

Cultivate a depth of practice to meet the confusion of our times. Alchemize the dharma into the fabric and nuances of your daily life. Embody fearlessness and compassion to show up for yourself and your communities.

Justice-informed Buddhist practice and meditation support with Adriana

A quick overview:

  • Self-paced video modules + accompanied readings on a Buddhist training curriculum

  • Monthly mentorship calls with voice message support in between

  • Access to the Radical Change Community including monthly book clubs, workshops, and weekly meditation gatherings

  • Personal tailored support for integrating the dharma into the nuances of your daily life

This might be a good fit if you are… 

  • An activist or community organizer who understands that the challenges we face today are not just individual or structural, but deeply existential and spiritual. You’re feeling stressed, anxious, maybe even burnt out, and you long to embody the resilience and courage that will empower you to support others.

  • A student, parent, or educator who feels the weight of the world’s crises shifting you in ways you can no longer ignore. You recognize that deepening your meditation practice can help you digest grief, process overwhelm, and navigate uncertainty.

  • A meditator whose practice feels stale, disconnected, barely existent. You want to cultivate a practice that integrates into your work, life, and relationships, helping you embody fearlessness, compassion, and clarity in every moment.

  • Someone who feels an undeniable sense that the world is simply not right. You’re tired of the status quo and long for a Buddhist practice that not only challenges the way things are but also helps you actively create the life-affirming world you know is possible.

By the end of our time together you'll have:

  • Learned the history of the Buddhism, its different lineages, transmission to the West, and why this matters

  • Established a connection to the Buddha’s core teachings based on your own experiential understanding and connected it to your personal and social justice commitments

  • Engaged Buddhist ethical trainings and applied it to the nuances of your personal,  political, and work life 

  • Cultivated the foundation for a strong daily Buddhist meditation practice supported by ritual and chanting

  • Crafted a pathway of further dharma training unique to your own needs for further spiritual development 

  • Disentangled capitalism (and consumerism, colonialism, and white supremacy) from your meditation practice

 What’s included

  • Monthly mentorship calls via Zoom

  • Weekly voice message support in between calls

  • Curriculum based on where you are in your Buddhist path

  • Dozens of short, self-paced video modules with accompanied readings

  • Personal retreat and practice training plans

  • Access to the Radical Change Community

  • Lifetime access to course material and video modules for you to revisit when you wish

Apply for a sliding scale monthly rate

Flourishing
$250.00

Per month

Sustaining
$200.00

Per month

Base
$150.00

Per month

Supported
$75.00

Per month

The above “Apply now” buttons are non-committal and redirect to an application for you to share what you’re looking support with. I’ll follow up to schedule a complementary 30-mins call to answer any questions you may have and to make sure I can support you. Want to talk money? Email me or read on below.

A note on money & pricing

I spent most of my college years and early twenties trading volunteer hours at meditation centers for program and retreat tuition. I understand how cost prohibitive meditation and dharma can be in the West, and its relationship to power and racial capitalism.

I also spend a lot of time thinking about these dynamics in relationship to right livelihood and collective care in Western Buddhism, and constructive ways to address tensions that arise spiritually, ethically, and materially.

If you are interested in my research on this, sign up for my newsletter.

I offer imperfect sliding scale pricing with the heart and intention of a gift economy.

If you are unsure which tier to choose, I recommend this resource to distinguish your appropriate rate. The Sustaining rate allows me to meet my personal needs and the needs of others who rely on me. The Flourishing rate allows me to work with others at the Base and Supported rates.

I recognize that the Supported rate still may be out of reach for some. If that is the case, please message me and simply share what you need. No need to explain yourself (I know how emotionally taxing that can be). No questions asked, really, just email me.

Tell me more about the mentorship…

Need more info on what you can expect?

 

Step 1: Set the Ground & View

We’ll have a Zoom call each month. In our first call, we’ll assess what you and the folks that rely on you need right now, and how Buddhist practice can help.

Step 2: Engage the Path

You’ll begin the curriculum and engage your daily practice. We’ll connect weekly via voice memos to discuss your home practice and the material covered in the modules.

Step 3: Monitor & Assess

We’ll assess where you feel you need to focus, where you need extra support, and how you can begin to deepen your engagement further through your relationships, work, and activism.

Step 4: Reflect & Plan Next Steps

We’ll reflect, clarify, and make a plan for further study, practice, and retreat. I’ll help you find an in-person sangha, specific tradition, or other ways for you to continue to deepen your practice further.

 

Here’s a closer look at the curriculum

I guide practitioners on a curriculum based on the Buddha’s Eightfold Noble Path. I draw translations and material on these teachings across a variety of Buddhist lineages.

The Dharma Meets Capitalism
History & Transmission to the West

Practicing in Times of Polycrisis
Wholesome View & Motivation 

Buddhist Ethics in Everyday Life
Wise Speech, Action, & Livelihood

Cultivating Concentration Beyond Spiritual Bypass
Right Effort, Mindfulness, and Concentration

Training and Rigor to Meet the Confusion of our Times
Find Your Tradition and Deepen Your Practice

Have more questions?

  • Socially engaged Buddhism (SEB) is Buddhism that is engaged with the social, political, economic, and material conditions of suffering and liberation. The term “engaged Buddhism” was originally coined by Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in the 1960s.

  • Nope! This program is open to folks of any spiritual, religious, or secular background.

  • It’s ultimately up to you! Our monthly Zoom calls are 50 mins each. If you plan on keeping up with the video modules and readings, it will likely take you an additional 1hrs/week. This does not include time for your own daily meditation practice.

  • I view Buddhist mentorship as a form of spiritual friendship that merges the benefits of a personal chaplain, coach, and meditation teacher. It’s not psychotherapy but does incorporate spiritual or pastoral counseling.

Me back in 2018 on retreat thinking about Buddhist ethics or snacks

Hey! I’m Adriana 👋

I’m a Buddhist practitioner-scholar, meditation teacher, facilitator, and parent.

Several years into my meditation practice, I had a nagging feeling something was missing.

I watched as mindfulness became increasingly popular as a secular tool for productivity and stress-relief and found myself asking—was meditating to keep up with middle-class pleasures—surely this wasn’t what the Buddha meant by liberation in this lifetime?

…Right?

I hit a wall in my practice and life, and became frustrated with how Western Buddhist communities' omissions and deemphasis of ethics showed up in their own crises and misconduct.

Even after hundreds of hours of meditation and study, my practice felt shallow, fragile, and disconnected.

It wasn’t until I connected to the Buddha’s teachings on moral discipline and very intentionally applied it to my daily actions, relationships, and activism, that my Buddhist practice developed depth, came alive, and felt integrated.

It was at the same time that I began to wrestle with the way that capitalism and the dharma’s commodification in the West—specifically the disjointed separation of study, embodied practice, and ethical training—prevented my practice from deepening for a long while.

Me several years and a lifetime later, still thinking about ethics or snacks

If you’re like I was years ago, you feel connected to the Buddha’s teachings on compassion and suffering. You’ve read a few dharma books, meditate regularly, and maybe gone on a retreat.

You know the dharma can help you better show up for the people and communities you love, but you need to take the next step to deepen your practice.

You’re looking to bridge your spiritual development with your aspiration to build a more life-affirming world because you understand they are ultimately connected.

Let’s start by cultivating a meditation practice that has the depth and rigor to meet the confusion of our times.

Let’s wrestle with Buddhist teachings and connect it to your aspiration to help and serve other beings on our path to collective liberation.

Let’s deepen your practice through radical, accountable spiritual friendship.

With love,
Adriana