About Deborah Darrin
Debbie is a certified Mindfulness Meditation facilitator. She has studied and practiced mindfulness and meditation throughout many years of her life and has focused on cultivating Theravada meditation from the Buddhist tradition over the last 10 years. The Theravada tradition integrates cultivating calm, tranquility of awareness (samatha), by concentrating the mind (samadhi), so we can then be open to greater insight (vipassana) and wisdom (Prajna/Panna) .
Her wishes are to live life moment to moment with awareness and to continually move in the direction of relieving suffering in the world, one heart at a time, one moment at a time, inviting that view to be a continuum of practice.
Debbie’s motto is: Feel the body, listen to the heart, cultivate the mind. Discover Freedom in Authenticity. Create your life!
Among Debbie’s first spiritual teachers were horses. There was something about the wordless relationship that drew her into the “world between the worlds”. There was a wordless invitation to commune, to observe, to listen, to hear and to respond to with mindful caring attention. She learned many lessons through the school of “hard knocks” with horses. Over and over being called to trust inner wisdom, “trust your guts” kind of situations. She has accumulated extensive experience and education in horse/human communications through Parelli programs and Eponaquest over the years. Horses are her heart.
I realized this world between worlds, the place of stillness, of internal quiet, curiosity, seeing, hearing and allowing was a spiritual practice. It, in fact, is mindful and meditative practice.
Deborah Darrin
Debbie’s initial practices with mindfulness were cultivated through the teachings of great Zen master Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh back in the 1980’s. Her mindfulness meditation teaching certification was through the 2-year MMTCP program created by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. (MMTCP – Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program.) Debbie offers ongoing meditation sessions online and will be returning some offerings to in person.
Debbie is an active board member with Napa Valley Insight Meditation and offers meditation, mindfulness practices and occasional dharma talks in association with NVIM. www.napainsight.org
Debbie has been certified through the Mindful Leaders MBSR course, to facilitate Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. The MBSR methodology was founded by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979.
Experience and Trainings
She routinely attends residential meditation and dharma retreats to continue cultivating deepening experiential practice. She has completed a wide variety of mindful and dharma inspired courses over the years. Some of her inspiring teachers are:
Thich Nhat Hanh, Dalai Lama, Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Kristin Neff, Christiane Wolf, Joseph Goldstein, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Kevin Griffin, Pema Chodron, Tempel Smith, Anne Cushman, Rick Hanson, Sylvia Boorstein, Sebene Selassie, Diana Winston, Gil Fronsdal, Matthew Brensilver, Heidi Bourne and more...
Debbie has been on Kevin Griffin's teaching team at Buddhism and Recovery residential retreats and subs for him occasionally on his regular Dharma and Recovery zoom classes. www.kevingriffin.net
Debbie Darrin is a certified Art4Healing facilitator and an explorative abstract painter. She facilitates Art4Healing workshops along with other similar introspective/expressive abstract art workshops. To learn more about the Art4Healing organization and process go to, https://art4healing.org/. To inquire about Art4Healing workshops that Debbie offers, email her at: debbetweentheworlds@gmail.com
Debbie collaborates with various mindful meditation teachers now and then. She facilitates ½ day and daylong retreats occasionally. She is most involved with Buddhism and Recovery practices.
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