Mindfulness coaching offers personalized guidance to help you bring more ease, presence, and self-compassion into your everyday life. Whether you're new to meditation or deepening your practice, these one-on-one sessions meet you where you are.
Mindfulness Coaching: Personalized Support to Cultivate Presence, Ease, and Everyday Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the foundation of my personal and professional life. My decades of dedicated Zen practice has helped carry me through many challenging transitions, softened my inner dialogue, and deepened my connection to the present moment.
Through my certification with the respected Dharma Moon and Tibet House US Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training, I expanded my teaching to include personalized, 1:1 mindfulness coaching — helping women not just to learn meditation, but to truly apply it and live it in everyday life.
What Our Mindfulness Coaching Sessions Look Like: 
Working together individually, I tailor each session to your unique life rhythm, needs, and intentions. Whether you're brand new to meditation or seeking to deepen an existing practice, we’ll create a sustainable path for you to:
- Build a steady, supportive meditation practice
- Learn simple, accessible mindfulness techniques
- Apply mindful awareness to daily moments — from conversations to challenges
- Cultivate greater presence, emotional ease, and resilience in midlife
We begin with a gentle, exploratory session to clarify what you’re seeking, followed by weekly 30-minute sessions to build consistency and integration.
Why Work 1:1?
Because your journey is deeply personal. These sessions offer a nurturing space to slow down, tune in, and receive personalized guidance that honors exactly where you are — and where you wish to grow.
Mindfulness doesn’t just happen on the cushion — it transforms how we live, relate, and show up. I would be honored to support you in bringing its profound, steady power into your everyday life.
Questions? Ready to Begin? Contact Shayna. I'd be honored to support you.
Thank you, Shayna! Your groups are always amazing and have a high rate of return on value and worth when the time, energy and vulnerability is invested!
Angela B.Shayna holds space in the most loving and effective way. Her workshops are full of great information that allows one to step inside with full authenticity while being held with the felt sense of love and acceptance. I walked away with insight that continues to feed and fuel me everyday.
Elizabeth S.This was a profoundly powerful day. The location, the greeting, the content, and the exercises allowed for a beautiful ease and flow of a remarkable experience. Shayna has a keen ability to hold space and create a nurturing environment where everyone can interact and share freely…or not.
Christine B.Shayna’s workshop completely changed the way I think about my life—from blah and overwhelmed to YES!” Her SOFTT model is like giving myself a hug. Shayna’s daylong workshop literally transformed the way I process all that we, as midlife women, experience.
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Your softness and compassion shone bright and transformation happened
I have found the workshops to be very insightful, and potentially transformative. It is a wonderful idea to have a workshop for women in similar places in their lives. It is beautifully lead by Shayna, who offers insight, guidance, and wisdom. I highly recommend these workshops!
Donna B.Thank you so much Shayna Gothard Kaufmann!!! What a wonderful, positive, encouraging, supportive and enlightening experience! All of what you were saying were things I definitely can relate to, and your facilitated exercise was so very valuable. Thank you for creating this for our community of women and beyond. You really are amazing and I admire you deeply!
Shannon W.Through her “Embracing” series, Shayna graciously extends her extensive knowledge, experience, insight, guidance, healing, zen-like leadership and obvious love for what she does with her fellow “middle” women. I gained significant insight about “me” in ways I hadn’t considered before, and that allowed me to begin a wonderful journey of much needed acceptance, forgiveness, healing and peace. I also gained a network of amazing, wonderful women! Thank you, Shayna. You are a trusted adviser and forever friend.
Kelly B.Ongoing growth and development is a huge priority in my life, but I was having a difficult time finding the right context for creating it. Within the confines of Shayna’s group I found camaraderie, laughter, fellowship, connectedness, a feeling of interpersonal relatedness, a sense of safety and mutual respect, and an overall feeling of being truly heard without judgement. I trust Shayna implicitly and in her group I always feel comfortable and safe; a nurturing space to reflect, engage in lively conversation, explore new options and possibilities, and find new ways of thinking about old challenges. I cannot think of a better person to facilitate personal growth and development workshops than Shayna Kaufmann.
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