“You’re perfect the way you are. And you can use a little improvement.”
~ Suzuki Roshi
Being human can feel messy! Oh, how messy it can feel. There are so many things we wish were true and so many things we wish were not true. Yet if we look closely, there’s a deeper, fundamental longing we carry. We long to feel at home with ourselves. We long to return to the home of the heart.
The struggles we experience, if we're humble enough, call us inward. They’re like sacred doorways to embodiment, freedom, and what the Buddha called the highest happiness or peace. We can begin by developing a genuine friendship with life as it is, a genuine friendship with ourselves. Cultivating a kind and authentic relationship with ourselves is both possible and essential for transformation to occur.
Over time, we can reestablish intimate contact with life as it is. This is different from trying to think nice thoughts. For most of us, this takes time and commitment. This commitment isn't fueled by obligation so much as longing and love. Longing and love loosen the roots of our suffering. What emerges is a deeply happy presence that senses itself to be sufficient, whole, undefended, spontaneous, and free.
Individual Sessions
1:1 work with Adam
Hakomi-informed sessions offer a gentle yet deeply transformative approach to knowing yourself more fully and stepping into a new way of being in the world. One-on-one work is rooted in somatic awareness, and blends mindfulness, dialogue, and inquiry in service of every aspect of your life. Learn more here.
Rainbow Mind
An online community
Led by Adam Moskowitz, Rainbow Mind is a welcoming online community where everyone is invited to slow down, discover insight, and reconnect.
Weekly sessions: Thursdays, 7:30–8:15am Pacific
Learn more here.
Living Stillness Retreat
Big Bear Retreat Center
Wednesday, June 23, (4pm) – Sunday, June 27, 2027 (1pm)
Nestled among ancient juniper and pine forests in Southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains, Big Bear Retreat Center offers a peaceful mountain setting approximately two hours from Los Angeles.
Learn more here.
I currently work privately with clients, offering Hakomi-informed sessions grounded in somatic awareness. I lead a wonderful and welcoming online sangha called Rainbow Mind, offer residential and daylong retreats, and I teach an eight-week course. I serve as adjunct faculty at Antioch University, where I teach mindfulness and compassion-based practices to graduate students. I offer teachings to the public, organizations, and schools.
Trained with the Center for Mindfulness and rooted in years of dedicated practice across multiple spiritual and psychospiritual traditions, I offer guidance that is gentle yet precise, recognizing the subtle and multifaceted nature of individual transformation.
I believe we each have unique doorways to embodiment, freedom, and self-discovery, and that cultivating a kind and authentic relationship with ourselves is universally possible and essential for development to occur.
My work centers on supporting individuals to develop an experiential relationship with loving awareness. I create safe, joyful containers where people can reconnect with themselves and each other, experiencing insights in the mind and shifts toward freedom in the heart.
I do not teach with an agenda to manufacture any state, but as a way of relating to our human experience with greater awareness, kindness, and wisdom. This re-relating to ourselves is at the heart of repairing the world.
I am deeply grateful to my teachers—Megan Cowan, Chris McKenna, Steven Smith, Michele McDonald, Bob Stahl, Matthew Brensilver, David Weinberg, George Bertelstein, Lilo Reese, and Ryan Brandenburg, whose guidance and generosity continue to inspire my life and work. My teaching is also deeply influenced by Thich Nhat Hanh, The Diamond Approach, and the principles of Hakomi.
Hi! I’m Adam Moskowitz.
My work began in education as an intern at an elementary school in Pennsylvania. I had no idea what I was doing, but the spark of shared insight and discovery that lit up the classroom felt like the most wonderful thing.
In 2007, I was teaching at a high school Oakland, CA, where I quickly noticed significant stress in my students’ lives. I saw how their school environment often overlooked their nervous system and what one mentor described as the human right of awareness.
My own struggles and the weight of long-buried anxiety pivoted my life toward healing and meditative practice. Vacation turned into retreat; novels were replaced with strange spiritual texts. I do miss those novels! It was a seismic, excruciating, and beautiful shift.
I eventually trained to share mindfulness in schools and developed a school-wide program that touched the lives of more than a thousand Bay Area students. I am grateful for the gift of witnessing youth learn, countless times, to rediscover what they call their anchor, the deep well of ease, safety, and uniqueness within.