Erin Selover, LMFT
Residential Retreat Teacher
Erin Selover, MS, is a Licensed Therapist, Strategic Coach, Consultant with Courageous Leadership and serves as a Core Teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
As a meditation teacher, Erin integrates systemic and cultural factors of oppression into teachings on mindfulness and compassion that are often only taught from an interpersonal and intrapersonal lens. With a passion for systemic change, Erin’s teachings broaden the field of mindfulness to look at the how Buddhist teachings can help us understand systems of oppression such as patriarchy, white supremacy, and modern economics.
Through supporting students to see factors that contribute to their pain as part of a larger system, Erin helps students in decreasing shame, increasing a sense of agency, and working collectively towards compassionately changing oppressive systems within their communities.
As a white woman, Erin has a passion for accompanying white people interested in integrating Buddhist Meditation and racial justice, answering a call to decrease the burden on people of color to educate white people on dominant culture.
Erin currently has a strategic coaching practice where she specializes in working with female leaders, and is the co-guiding teacher of Fertile Void, a women’s meditation community in Berkeley. One of Erin’s missions is to empower women to boldly vision the world they want to live in, and then accompany them in co-creating it. Erin specializes in collaboration-based leadership and creating systems that allow the insight of our mutual inter-dependence and belonging to be realized.
Erin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and previously worked full time in private practice integrating Buddhism, Somatic Experiencing and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. She was also a core team member of the group that co-founded Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (IBME) and is a long-time trainer and mentor for the Stepping Stones Project.
Erin Selover's Upcoming Programs
Retreat | On-Land
April 28 - May 4, 2024 | Sunday - Saturday | 6 nights
Exploring the Relationship between the Awakening Heart and Unentangled Knowing
At this time of increasing global crisis, the relationship between letting go and trusting a heart that knows can resource us in profound and unexpected ways. On this retreat, we will enter into Noble Silence, invoking our intention to increase our intimacy with this primordial relationship between embodied knowing and embodied care. Our intention is to support you as you tenderly meet each moment with care. Together, we will weave Dharma teachings with stillness, movement, ritual, sound, and song.
Retreat | On-Land
September 19 - September 25, 2024 | Thursday - Wednesday | 6 nights
Spiritual Sanctuary: A Women's Liberation Retreat
Open to all self-identified Women. We live in times of increasing pressure, which can be experienced as intensity, stress, limitation, or dissatisfaction. The Four Noble Truths remind us that pressure is an unavoidable part of life, and that freedom is possible within it. This retreat offers a space in which practitioners can choose rest, renewal, and liberation. Together we will practice in silence, integrating movement and stillness, outdoor practice, and Dharma talks that lift up women’s journeys of awakening from a diversity of lineages and traditions.
Dharma Library
Can't join us live online or on the land? Study and practice at your convenience with Erin Selover through our new library of recordings, articles, and self-paced online courses.