Tesilya Hanauer

I am a freelance writer and certified massage therapist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. I received my massage training at Heartwood Institute in northern California, where I also studied Iyengar yoga. I was exposed to loving-kindness meditation years ago through Jack Kornfield's classic book, A Path with Heart, while on a solo road trip in Canyonlands, Utah. The meditation practice helped me get through a particularly hard time in my life. Since then I have practiced meditation on and off, on my own and through classes at Spirit Rock.