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 sacred spark of shared insight and discovery that lit up the classroom felt like the most wonderful thing I’d ever experienced.

Years later, while teaching at a high school in Northern California, the weight of long-buried anxiety and a profoundly imbalanced nervous system suddenly surfaced and overwhelmed me. It demanded my full attention. I had no choice but to confront a whole terrain of previously unconscious inner struggle.

My life took a sudden pivot toward healing and contemplative practice. Time off turned into retreat; novels were replaced with strange spiritual texts. (I do miss those novels!) It was a seismic shift—excruciating and beautiful. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

I became more attuned to the imbalance in my students’ lives. I saw how school often ignored the nervous system, the inner life, the basic human need for okay-ness—the possibility of discovering an innate safety and ease within. It felt as though the foundation for everything else was totally missing.

I began helping students reconnect what one teacher called the human right of awareness—supporting them to discover a safe, spacious quality within. I developed a school-wide mindfulness program that touched the lives of more than a thousand Bay Area students and educators. I’ve seen kids rediscover their innate ease so many times, and I believe it is one of the most important things in the world.

My work today

Trained with the Center for Mindfulness as an MBSR teacher, 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, schools, and individuals. I design programs for groups that explore the transformative benefits of mindfulness and embodiment-based practices. I lead a wonderful online sangha called Rainbow Mind, teach an eight-week course called A Path to Presence, offer residential and daylong retreats, and work privately with clients.

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 have spent years practicing, studying, and deepening my relationship with multiple traditions from which my teaching draws. I am grateful to have practiced within a monastic village in the Sagaing Hills of Burma and to have studied with Steven Smith and Michele McDonald—two huge-hearted humanitarians and pioneers who helped create a pathway for Westerners to authentically experience the dharma. My teaching is also deeply influenced by Thich Nhat Hanh, Advaita Vedanta, and the principles of Hakomi.

My guidance is gentle yet precise, recognizing the subtle and multifaceted nature of individual experience and transformation. I believe we each possess a unique doorway to freedom and self-discovery, and that cultivating a kind and authentic relationship with the present moment is universally possible and essential for real development to occur.

I do not teach with an agenda to manufacture any particular state or spiritual experience, but as a way of relating to our human experience with greater awareness, kindness, and wisdom.

My approach is grounded in compassion and draws from a wide range of teachings that support self-awareness, loving presence, and personal agency. The spaces I offer are inclusive and community-oriented, inviting powerful shared transformation.

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.