Hello! I’m Adam Moskowitz

Background

I began teaching when I was twenty, 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. Time off 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-based practices in schools and developed a school-wide program that touched the lives of more than a thousand Bay Area students, educators, and parents. 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.

My work today

I 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 or spiritual experience, 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.