THE OUTER WORLD
YOUR INNER NATURE
Rewilding the human experience
About me:
Robin Silver, MA, is an ecopsychologist, mindfulness instructor, and death doula. She began studying mindfulness at a 3-day long retreat in July 2011 at Guang Jue Monastery in Zaoxi, China, and has been exploring mindfulness and other meditation modalities ever since. Robin’s work comes from the belief that we must tend to our psychological, emotional, spiritual, and ecological bodies as much as our physical body.
She is informed by her formal education, 5+ years work experience in the mental health space, and an eclectic breadth of trainings and retreats undertaken around the US, Mexico, and Asia. She studied Thai Massage and tok sen at the Thai Massage School and Wat Pan Whaen in Chiang Mai, Thailand in January 2020. She holds an MA in Ecopsychology and mindfulness instructor certification from Naropa University (2023), where she wrote her masters thesis on using ancestral practice and nature connection to overcome fear of death.
My services
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Mindfulness Instruction
I bring 15+ years of my own personal meditation practice as well as my year-long instructor training, in the lineage of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
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Mindfulness Coaching
Using various modalities, depending on the needs of the client/situation, we will work through different issues in your life together, building skills to help you act like your favorite version of yourself.
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Ritual Design
Rituals work to mark different seasons in life, whether literal seasons or other passages. We can together design something to commemorate these moments in a way that feels authentic to you.
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Psychedelic Prep/Integration
We will use methods based in rites of passage theory to craft a core intention for your journey, and then afterwards reflect on how that intention showed up during the journey, as well as how to incorporate those lessons into daily life.
About the work:
When a person is able to stay in the present moment, they are not caught up in the past-orientation of depression or the future-orientation of anxiety. The more we practice being present, the easier it becomes to stay with present reality even when it’s difficult, and live as authentic and healthy versions of ourselves.
Through collaborative relationship, I can help you discover different techniques to best support individual and community healing. Using mindfulness (also known as insight) meditation as an anchor, together we will develop a meditation practice and explore other ways to bring mindfulness into everyday life. We will use creative techniques like journaling, collage, and altar/ritual crafting, as well as embodied movement practices, such as somatic release and self-massage, to reach the ultimate goal of supporting present awareness in the mind and body.