Joshua Canter

Joshua Canter is a mindfulness meditation teacher based in Asheville, North Carolina, who has been leading meditation since around 2000. He studied Contemplative Psychology to MA level, specialising in mindfulness, and names Thich Nhat Hanh, Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Roshi Joan Halifax, Ram Dass and Amma among the teachers who have shaped his practice. Alongside his teaching he co-founded True Nature Travels, an Asheville company that has organised group retreats around the world for more than twenty years.

His teaching keeps mindfulness simple and practical: present-moment awareness, breath, loving-kindness and walking practice, drawn from several contemplative traditions. In Asheville he leads a weekly drop-in class and quiet early-morning sessions of seated and walking meditation in the galleries of the Asheville Art Museum, and he has taught in schools, hospitals, hospice settings and workplaces, as well as offering private sessions. His recorded collection Mindfulness Now gathers guided practices including metta, a body scan and the Tibetan phowa set to an ambient soundscape, and his meditations and a six-day course are free to explore on Insight Timer.