"Lorin Roche really knows his stuff." – Jack Kornfield, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society and of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center.

"Lorin Roche is probably the friendliest meditation teacher in America." – James Fadiman, cofounder of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.



What's The Point of Individual Instruction?

A good way to get started in meditation is to have some one-to-one instruction right at the beginning. This is true of any skill – if you get into the right habits initially, your whole experience will be better. When people teach themselves a skill, sometimes they get "bad habits" going that are difficult to identify and erase later. Because meditation is invisible behavior – it is inner, with not much outward going on – almost no one gets any real coaching.

Individual coaching can also be useful if you have been meditating for awhile. I work with all types of meditators, with anywhere from a few days to a few decades of experience. This is because we are all beginners at meditation. Every day, we get up in the morning and we are a new person facing fresh challenges.

In sessions, we can just focus on your individuality, your needs, your daily life, and fine-tune your meditation practice so it becomes something you have time for and get rich benefits from. We explore what is happening with your individual body chemistry, your rhythms, your creativity, your relationships and your health.

How do you know what type and style of meditation to do? In India, many thousands of different yogas have evolved, each with their own series of meditation practices. Buddha said that he gave 84,000 different techniques for the different kids of people there are.

Why are there so many different techniques? Because inside, in their inner world, people are much more different from one another than they are in their faces, fingerprints, or bodies. This variety is to be celebrated.

When you find the meditation practice that suits you, it feels like a shoe that is built to fit your foot – comfortable and a joy to wear. Even more, meditation does not feel like something you are imposing on yourself, a foreign discipline. It's a relief to meditate. To help you get to this place, where meditation feels natural and you thrive, where you carry with you an inner peace and radiant vitality, I am happy to offer one-to-one coaching, in person and on the phone.

Meeting people who want to learn meditation, or want to refine their practice, is one of my favorite activities in the world – right up there with surfing and swimming. All my training over the past 36 years, as a meditation teacher, as a researcher, as a clairvoyant, has been to equip me to help people find the meditation techniques and styles that work the best for them. It's one of the great joys of my life.

I work with people who have never meditated before, with martial artists, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, therapists, Tai Chi and Chi Gung practitioners, writers, sculptors, actors, and every other type of meditator you can think of.

We go into detail about how the rubber meets the road – how your unique individuality meets the subtle inner contact of a meditation practice. And what we find almost always is, you are not wrong. Any resistance you have to meditating, if you used to meditate and have stopped, is almost always because some aspect of the technique you were doing was not right for you. So in a sense, you could say that the purpose of sessions is to help you get the feel for how your soul wants to meditate – what your truly natural style is. This always is an adventure, and at the same time it feels like coming home, coming home to yourself.

With each person, the structure of the work is different. In general, think about giving yourself ten sessions – five of them spaced closely together, for example every other day, and then five spread out over the next five months. That way you really have an opportunity to make meditation part of your daily life and thrive with the practice.

You can also come for just one session, to see how you like it, see if it works for you.

Sessions can last from one to two hours, depending on your needs. The cost is $140 an hour. Many people do a combination of in-person and phone sessions.

I am at the beach in Los Angeles, in Marina del Rey, California. We are ten minutes from LAX and people who live in various parts of the world arrange for several hours of layover and come by to take a walk and do a session.

Call me at (310) 821-0620 or email me to get the ball rolling.