Individual Meditation Training with Robert Beatty
This isn't professional training. This is training for life itself - for making your life worth living, for opening your capacity to love and connect deeply, for discovering meaning in the midst of everything you're facing.
You might be at the top of your professional game and still feel something essential is missing. Or you've tried meditation and given up. Maybe you're maintaining a half-hearted practice that doesn't deliver what you're seeking. Maybe you're facing something so difficult - grief, depression, major life change, sickness - that you know you need more than guided audio or online dharma talks.
Here's the truth: Meditation isn't about escaping your humanity. It's about meeting your actual life with wisdom and an open heart - and learning to truly live, not just survive.
You might be at the top of your professional game and still feel something essential is missing. Or you've tried meditation and given up. Maybe you're maintaining a half-hearted practice that doesn't deliver what you're seeking. Maybe you're facing something so difficult - grief, depression, major life change, sickness - that you know you need more than guided audio or online dharma talks.
Here's the truth: Meditation isn't about escaping your humanity. It's about meeting your actual life with wisdom and an open heart - and learning to truly live, not just survive.
"Robert has been my spiritual coach, and our regular sessions discussing life and the dharma have brought me immense benefit. He is one of the most relatable and wise individuals I've encountered, possessing an uncanny ability to share the perfect story and lesson for every question. I am profoundly grateful for his wisdom, which continues to shape my spiritual journey in significant ways."
- Joshua Russell MD
This Is For You If:
What Personal Training Includes:
Real Obstacles, Real Solutions
Ongoing Support
- You're successful but feel spiritually empty - something essential is missing
- You've tried meditation and quit because it felt too difficult or confusing
- You're dealing with anxiety, grief, depression, or major life transitions
- You want to break repetitive patterns but don't know how
- You need trauma-sensitive guidance for old wounds
- You long for deeper connection and love in your life
- You're ready to stop just surviving and start truly living
- You're ready to stop struggling alone
What Personal Training Includes:
- Foundation Building
- Personalized assessment of where you are and where you want to go
- Custom meditation program designed for your life and challenges
- Guidance in opening your heart and connecting more deeply with others
- Recorded guided meditations specific to your needs
- Practical integration into your relationships, work, and daily responsibilities
Real Obstacles, Real Solutions
- Working with physical and emotional pain
- Trauma-sensitive approaches for past wounds
- Breaking thought and emotion patterns that keep you stuck
- Learning to meet difficulty without being destroyed by it
- Transforming relationship difficulties into opportunities for connection
Ongoing Support
- Access to weekly drop-in meditation groups
- Connection to broader community and retreat opportunities
- Long-term mentorship as your life evolves
"Beyond personal counsel, Robert has introduced me to a variety of practices that nourish the soul. What sets Robert apart is his understanding that spirituality is deeply personal. He never imposes beliefs or practices but instead invites exploration and adaptation."
- Eric Leagjeld
How We Work Together
There are three ways I am available to provide private guidance
for people in their meditation practice.
for people in their meditation practice.
1. Single Consultation
If you have a particular confusion or question about meditation, you can schedule a private meeting with me. Also if you have had some overwhelming opening or frightening experience in meditation. I offer this in person and also online. The suggested donation for this kind of consultation is $150, but in keeping with my Buddhist training, a sliding scale is available. If you have something important to discuss, please do not let finances be an obstacle to making contact with me.
2. Six-Session Foundation Package
If you are seeking a thorough, effective and private introduction to meditation, I offer a six-session package. This is a good way to establish a daily meditation practice and to overcome many of the obstacles that are common at the beginning of practice.
This Includes:
This entire series is $750
3. Becoming a Student
I am accepting new students for ongoing meditation training. This is the heart of my teaching practice.
This is the time-honored model in which both teacher and student make a commitment. I commit to being available to you, and you commit to showing up for your practice and our meetings.
The term for this kind of relationship is *Kalyanamita*, or spiritual friend. This is not a guru/devotee relationship where one person has all the answers. We are both on a shared spiritual path, and both of us learn and benefit from the relationship. As your teacher, I bring experience, perspective, and the ability to see what you might not see in yourself. As my student, you bring your sincere effort, your questions, and your willingness to look deeply at your life. Together, we create the conditions for real transformation.
What develops in this relationship goes beyond managing difficulties - you learn to open your heart, to love more deeply, to discover joy and meaning, to truly come alive. Yes, we work with obstacles and pain, but always in service of helping you live a life that feels worth living.
Following the traditional teacher-student model, we meet regularly over months or years. The frequency evolves with your practice—some periods call for more support, others less. Most students meet monthly. During intensive periods—grief, major transitions, establishing a new practice, radical breakthroughs in insight and wisdom—we might meet weekly or biweekly. Sometimes students take breaks and return when life calls them back to practice.
We'll find a rhythm that works—meeting consistently enough that you feel held and supported, but not so often that it becomes another burden in your life.
This isn't a package or program—it's a commitment to your path. We'll determine together what you can sustain financially, honoring both your circumstances and the value of the teaching. Many students pay $150 per session, others less, depending on their situation.
Not sure which path is right for you?
Start with a free 20-minute conversation. We'll explore what you're looking for and whether we're a good fit.
If you have a particular confusion or question about meditation, you can schedule a private meeting with me. Also if you have had some overwhelming opening or frightening experience in meditation. I offer this in person and also online. The suggested donation for this kind of consultation is $150, but in keeping with my Buddhist training, a sliding scale is available. If you have something important to discuss, please do not let finances be an obstacle to making contact with me.
2. Six-Session Foundation Package
If you are seeking a thorough, effective and private introduction to meditation, I offer a six-session package. This is a good way to establish a daily meditation practice and to overcome many of the obstacles that are common at the beginning of practice.
This Includes:
- An assessment of where you are in your meditation and in your life
- Discussion of how to integrate your prior meditation practice and methods
- Six meetings over a period of time that we decide together
- Identifying your particular issues, anxiety, self hatred, jealousy, depression, loneliness, and tailoring the meditation to work with them.
- Guidance with reading and study
- Access to the six basic guided meditations
- At least one individual recorded guided meditation for you to practice with
- If desired, a practice log for tracking your meditations
- Participation in whichever weekly meditation gatherings you wish
- Guidance for continuing on with your practice
This entire series is $750
3. Becoming a Student
I am accepting new students for ongoing meditation training. This is the heart of my teaching practice.
This is the time-honored model in which both teacher and student make a commitment. I commit to being available to you, and you commit to showing up for your practice and our meetings.
The term for this kind of relationship is *Kalyanamita*, or spiritual friend. This is not a guru/devotee relationship where one person has all the answers. We are both on a shared spiritual path, and both of us learn and benefit from the relationship. As your teacher, I bring experience, perspective, and the ability to see what you might not see in yourself. As my student, you bring your sincere effort, your questions, and your willingness to look deeply at your life. Together, we create the conditions for real transformation.
What develops in this relationship goes beyond managing difficulties - you learn to open your heart, to love more deeply, to discover joy and meaning, to truly come alive. Yes, we work with obstacles and pain, but always in service of helping you live a life that feels worth living.
Following the traditional teacher-student model, we meet regularly over months or years. The frequency evolves with your practice—some periods call for more support, others less. Most students meet monthly. During intensive periods—grief, major transitions, establishing a new practice, radical breakthroughs in insight and wisdom—we might meet weekly or biweekly. Sometimes students take breaks and return when life calls them back to practice.
We'll find a rhythm that works—meeting consistently enough that you feel held and supported, but not so often that it becomes another burden in your life.
This isn't a package or program—it's a commitment to your path. We'll determine together what you can sustain financially, honoring both your circumstances and the value of the teaching. Many students pay $150 per session, others less, depending on their situation.
Not sure which path is right for you?
Start with a free 20-minute conversation. We'll explore what you're looking for and whether we're a good fit.