Marta McCary, RN, CMSIII-BC

I came upon meditation while trekking alone in the Arctic Circle. As a young woman at nineteen, I was transformed inside of nine months of wilderness silence. While immersed in extreme elements, and a couple brushes with death, my mind began to merge with my environment. I began to realize an inner connectedness with nature. Mindfulness and intuition was a matter of survival. When I returned to civilization I engaged in formal training in meditation. However, while learning how to survive our modern society, I succumbed to the stress the nursing profession, a fast paced culture, and the need to heal a seemingly unfathomable depth of pain. Yet, what I maintained was a reference point of those profound experiences in nature, and I had a regular meditation practice.

Over the decades I went to great lengths to be guided by well -respected teachers, Elders, and trustworthy mentors. An ongoing meditation practice enabled me to expand those wilderness ‘glimpses’ of sublime inner peace and well being, into a more abiding daily experience, even in the midst of stressful conditions. Eventually, I came into a more sustaining calm, an inner contentment, and sometimes a little wisdom manages to arise in needed moments. With Dr. Susan Taylor and her meditation program for health professionals, I have shifted from 23 years of nursing to teaching meditation.

I invite you to contact me if interested in meditation instruction, or personal mentoring in your meditation practice. (Programs starting in fall of 2011.) Marta McCary martamccary8@gmail.com