Meditation as Medicine
You are not your thoughts.
Research shows that regular meditation in just eight weeks strengthens grey matter density for emotional regulation and the prefrontal cortex for enhanced problem-solving skills.
Learn to meditate on your own, without the need of a guide, guru, or any gadgets, from compassionate presence to contemplation to consciousness expansion.
Meditation is not the point of meditation, so I importantly teach the wisdom of mindfulness, engage the energetics of the subtle body, and guide the art of spiritual contemplation to source your own inner wisdom.
You can be completely new to meditating or an experienced meditator looking to go deeper. These are private sessions so are uniquely adapted to you.
Sessions are either online from anywhere in the world via live Zoom, or in-person in NYC.
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Meditation is not the point of meditation.
At the core of any meditation practice is presence. My personal approach emphasizes two pillars: (1) compassionate presence and (2) contemplative wisdom. From this foundation, mindfulness to me is not about “emptying the mind,” but about returning again and again to awareness itself.
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To receive a personal mantra similar to Transcendental Meditation (“TM”), see my on-demand mantra course.
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We can incorporate breath for both embodied contemplation purposes as well as nervous system regulation. Our breathing patterns are often keeping us in heightened states but we can retrain our breath to settle the body-mind, with a meditative mind as a natural effect.
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You don’t need psychedelics to trip if you can master your mind.
For more experienced practitioners, meditation can open profound states of non-duality, loving presence, subtle awareness, intuition, lucid dreaming, and altered perception. But always with the anchors of compassionate presence and contemplative wisdom, or these states are just distraction at best and destabilizing at worst.
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Contemplation is the source of your highest form of knowing.
Beyond mindfulness, deep past the gates of eternal presence, lies the art of spiritual contemplation: practices like self-inquiry, disidentification, centering prayer, and other methods of engaging the mystery directly go into the heart of this. Contemplation invites us into connection with something larger than ourselves while rooting us more deeply in our own essence.
Meet your guide
Susan Reis is a certified meditation teacher, contemplative practice teacher, somatic trauma practitioner, and integrative healing guide based in New York City. Her approach bridges eternal contemplative wisdom with modern nervous system science to create a safe, grounded space for self-inquiry, presence, and transformation. Susan specializes in meditation as a practice of returning—back to the body, back to inner truth, and back to the sacred rhythms of nature. Through gentle guidance, trauma-informed care, and deep attunement to the body’s energy system, she supports others in cultivating inner stillness, emotional resilience, intuitive insights, and compassionate presence.
Book a free 20-minute consultation call to learn more or get started.
Individual, couples, or group sessions are available, as well as both in-person in NYC and online from anywhere in the world. Please reach out or schedule a call to learn more. Take care and speak soon.