Welcome to The Slow Newsletter, your weekly dose of dazzling, aha-moment-generating Vedic wisdom. The Slow is where we break down teachings on meditation and consciousness to inspire easy, abundant living—even in the most demanding times.
If you’d like to receive these insights directly in your inbox, click here.
💬 Said Simply
So often, we cling tightly to our timing: the to-do lists, the looming deadlines, the carefully architected 5-year plans. We white-knuckle our way through life, convinced we’re supposed to be project-managing the Universe.
But there’s always a bigger unfolding at play, a Cosmic intelligence moving at the perfect pace for our greatest evolution.
What a gift to remember: Nature takes her time.
And when we relax into her timing, we soften into a deeper knowing that what’s unfolding is in fact even more elegant, more intelligent, more wildly evolutionary than anything we could dream up on our own.
Receive free weekly wisdom notes and practical tips.
Subscribe Now✨ The Cosmic Giggle
Raise your hand if you feel like this skatboarding cow from time to time. 😆
(It can’t just be me, right?)
Stress does a funny thing to us. It rips us right out of the now and hurls us into a mental ping-pong match.
Rehashing the past. Rehearsing the future. Catastrophizing everything in between.
Meanwhile, the present moment – the only space of awareness where life actually happens – slips right through our fingers, and we’re left holding a sad little bag of oh no’s,what ifs, “I knew I should’ve never trusted Chad!”
Stress feeds us a seductive lie: If we just worry hard enough, we can somehow outrun chaos. If we replay every mistake – ours, theirs, anyone’s – we’ll finally earn control over life… and make the future turn out just right.
Except… that’s not how evolution works.
The future isn’t something we muscle into existence. It’s something we tune into. And that only happens when we stop gripping and start settling. When we relax fully into the present moment, we begin to attune to Nature’s rhythms. That’s when the next step starts to reveal itself. Quietly, elegantly, and always right on time.
A steady, effective meditation practice helps make all this possible.
As stress releases from the physiology, so does the constant inner noise—the push-pull between past and present that keeps us in survival mode.
Without stress whispering in your ear, your awareness naturally recalibrates. And without even trying, you begin to live from presence, not panic.
🔍 Behind The Scenes
(An inside peek at what’s brewing: projects, passions, deep thoughts, and the sparks lighting up my consciousness.)
Vedic Meditation Pilot Program
(a special opportunity for 24 medi-curious New Yorkers)
Learning to meditate sounds great in theory.
But making it stick – in the middle of work, inbox chaos, kids – is a whole different beast.
After 8 years of teaching Vedic Meditation, I’ve seen this firsthand. Some people take to it like a duck to water. For others, it’s more like a dusty gym membership—full of great experiences at the get-go, but the momentum doesn’t last.
So I’m doing something about it.
Next month, I’m launching a small, special pilot program in NYC on Vedic Meditation. It’s designed not just to help people learn Vedic Meditation, but to actually fall in love with it.
I’m looking for 24 New Yorkers to participate in this pilot. You’ll be among the first to experience this new program, and your feedback will help shape how we share it with the world.
This is for you if:
- You’ve been curious about meditation but never quite found your way in
- You’ve tried apps or mindfulness before, but it didn’t click
- You’re craving something deeper, calmer, more sustainable
- You want tools that actually fit your real life—not some idealized fantasy version of it
As part of the program, we’ll also be measuring the wellness of meditators after they learn to meditate. For the first time, we’ll be able to study the impact of Vedic Meditation on stress, sleep, and overall well-being in a more systematic and scientific way.
I’d love to tell you more if you’re intrigued (or even just meditation-curious).
If your inner voice whispers, “This might be for me,” I hope you’ll follow it!
Always in your corner,
Susan
