Tess Howell

Tess Howell is a meditation teacher and guide for times of change who grew up in the UK and now lives on the California coast near Santa Cruz. She has practised Insight Meditation for close to thirty years and is accredited by Spirit Rock to lead Dharma and yoga practice. She is also an accredited 5Rhythms teacher, has trained in Buddhist eco-chaplaincy and in SomaSource body-based rites of passage, and is part of the leadership team at the School of Lost Borders, which runs wilderness vigils in the desert.

Her work combines sitting meditation, movement, ritual and honest reflection for people going through endings, new roles or a quiet sense that a chapter is closing. She offers one-to-one mentoring, which can include shaping a simple personal ceremony to mark a passage, and holds seasonal online gatherings drawn from the Celtic calendar. For more than ten years she has led conscious dance outdoors, often with wireless headphones so a group can move together in open country, through the Wild Moves events she founded. On Insight Timer she shares short guided practices and week-long courses on wonder, forgiveness, grounding and finding the sacred in ordinary days.