Tim Hwang is a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher (CMT-P) by the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and licensed occupational therapist specializing in integrative and mental health. Since 2009, he has dedicated himself to serving others in order to feel more empowered, happy, and fulfilled. With over a decade of clinical experience in the wellness space, Tim is dedicated to helping others find ways to improve their mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing.

Tim found mindfulness meditation to be completely transformative. He was able to have a radically different relationship with his habitual patterns of stress, anxiety, and feelings of inadequacy. With mindfulness and meditation, he was able to rewire his brain, improve concentration, and find lasting happiness. When working one on one with clients, he found that implementing meditation techniques in order to calm and understand the mind, produced enormous benefits that modern science continues to confirm. As a meditation coach, he will work with you to dive deep and discover, supporting you to cope with stress and anxiety, live a more fulfilling life, and awaken to the aliveness of each moment.

Tim bases his practice and teachings on the latest neuroscience, contemplative traditions, physiology, and positive psychology. He believes in the power of healing the person as a whole through use of meditation and other complementary practices. Tim has an enthusiasm for meditation, having had extensive number of hours of practice, study, and experience in the Theravadan and Tibetan lineages.

Tim specializes in teaching mindfulness to educators as well as teens and adolescents with disabilities such as Autism, intellectual disabilities, and ADHD. He’s been working in educational settings for 7 years. He is an advocate for teaching mindfulness in ways that consider neurodiversity.

Training and Affiliations

He has trained with world experts in the field of meditation including Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Rick Hanson, Kenneth Folk, and Loch Kelly. He has been studying social noting and meditation with Kenneth Folk of the Pragmatic Dharma lineage, who has encouraged him to teach. He has been trained by the following organizations: Sounds True and UC Berkeley’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, The Interdependence Project, Mindful Schools, Unified Mindfulness, Buddhist Geeks, and The Lineage Project.

He is also a member of the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium (EPRC) and is helping to advise, consult, and communicate signs, symptoms, and safety with possible emergent phenomena that can result with spiritual practice in order to improve mindfulness teachers standards. For more information please go to www.theeprc.org.