Foundations of Meditation

Cultivating stillness within is one of the most empowering choices we can make. Foundations of Meditation: Establishing Your Practice is a six-week journey for beginners and for anyone wanting a consistent meditation practice. Through guided exploration, you’ll learn the foundations of meditation and experience how regular practice brings steadiness, clarity, and resilience — calming the nervous system, reducing stress, sharpening focus, and aligning you with your greater purpose.

In this series you’ll also discover simple tools to weave mindfulness into everyday activities, practices to clear the mind and settle the emotions, short meditations for a busy lifestyle, restorative practices to ground and reset, and ways to share meditation with friends and family.

Solay Howell is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher and shamanic practitioner. Her teaching blends esoteric mysticism with trauma-informed mindfulness, offering a gentle, insightful approach to awareness and healing. For over a decade she has immersed herself in mystery-school studies, vipassana meditation, and sacred pilgrimage. She is a graduate of Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (2021) and has taught mindfulness to thousands of students in The Healing Trauma Program. Originally from Maui, Solay now resides in Richmond, Virginia.