Buffalo Firefly · Richmond & Zoom · Meditation Series

Foundations of Meditation

w/Solay

A six-week, beginner-friendly journey to establish a consistent meditation practice. Steadiness, clarity, and resilience for everyday life.

Regular $180 ($30/class) · early-bird $156 ($26/class)

Already have a steady practice? Get on the list for a more advanced class →

Upcoming series

Saturdays · Jan 9–Feb 13 · 11:00am 6 weeks

Reserve Join on Zoom →

Early-bird $156 through Nov 28

What to expect

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.

Topics for each session:

Week 1 · Principles of Mindfulness Meditation

Week 2 · Breath and Body Awareness

Week 3 · Quieting the Thinking Mind

Week 4 · Mindfulness of Emotions

Week 5 · Compassion for Self and Others

Week 6 · Bringing Meditation to Everyday Life

Good to know

In person: everything you need is provided (mats to sit on).

Held in person at our Richmond studio and on Zoom. In-person space is limited.

About Solay

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.

The training behind her teaching

Solay is a graduate of the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP), the same program our founder Mary-Lynne completed. MMTCP is a two-year teacher training led by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, two of the teachers who first brought mindfulness practice to the West. It’s certified by the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, which studies the science of well-being, and it has trained about 8,000 teachers in 70 countries. The second year is spent teaching real classes with monthly mentoring, so graduates have already taught before they’re certified.

The practices themselves. Breath, body scan, mindful movement, open awareness, and meditations that build kindness toward yourself and other people.

Practice for real life. Using mindfulness with stress, physical pain, difficult emotions and trauma, grounded in Western psychology and current research.

Teaching with care. Guiding meditation in a trauma-sensitive way, answering questions well, and teaching people from every background with respect.

You don’t need to know any of this to sit in the class. It’s here so you know who’s guiding you.

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