Meditation teacher & retreat guide · Toronto
Meditation & breathwork · Self-Inquiry · silence
I teach meditation, breathwork, and the direct path of Self-Inquiry — and I teach from experience, not theory. Years in silent retreat, monastery, and solitude, brought back to a room in Toronto.
I teach what I have actually lived.
For close to a decade I've followed one question inward — through ten-day silent courses, months inside Theravada monasteries, dark-room solitudes, an Amazonian plant-medicine apprenticeship, and a ninety-day silent retreat alone.
I share the teachings of the ascended masters — grounded in direct experience. Stillness, breath, Self-Inquiry: I can pass these on because I've lived them far enough to guide someone else safely, patiently, and without dogma.
How I teach
My work is trauma-informed and led by the nervous system — never a formula. I hold a space safe enough that whatever needs to surface can surface on its own, in its own time. I don't push anyone past what their body is ready to meet.
Allowance over force
Healing can't be rushed or willed. My role is to hold the conditions — safety, patience, presence — not to force the bloom.
Led by the nervous system
I meet each person where their body actually is, working with their physiology rather than against it, and inviting the parasympathetic state where real release becomes possible.
Breath as medicine
Through conscious, connected breath, the body reaches expanded states where held emotion and old imprints can finally be met and moved. I guide, and keep the space sacred.
The healer within
I don't fix anyone. Breath, stillness, and Self-Inquiry are doorways back to your own knowing — and I help you carry it home through integration.
Teaching
Weekly classes, breathwork journeys, and silent retreats — in studios across Toronto and under my own banner.
Lead Breathwork & Meditation Teacher
Sold-out classes on a weekly basis.
Founding Breathwork & Meditation Teacher
Sacred Breath Method Facilitator
Leading 2–3 hour breathwork immersions, and guiding 1-on-1 clients through the Sacred Breath Method.
Founder & Lead Facilitator
One-day silent meditation retreats.
Assistant to Teacher · 10-Day Retreats
Karma Yoga, and ran individual Hridaya Hatha Yoga classes.
Certifications
2022
Yoga Alliance
2020
Yoga Alliance
2019
Sacred Breath Academy · Kaya Leigh
The record
Every entry below is a retreat I have completed. The depth of the practice is the whole of the credential.
Long-term retreats
Theravada monastery & retreat
Vipassana & silent retreats
Dark-room retreats
Shamanic apprenticeship
Traditions
Guiding words
“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”
Ramana Maharshi
“The mind creates the abyss; the heart crosses it.”
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“We’re all just walking each other home.”
Ram Dass
“Sustained effort ends in effortless being.”
Anandamayi Ma
“The path of love is like a bridge of hair across the chasm of fire.”
Irina Tweedie · Daughter of Fire
Presence
One-on-one
Two hours, just the two of us. We begin in conversation, then move into a deep silent meditation — the Naqshbandi transmission, a heart-to-heart passing of stillness within the Sufi lineage I practice. I take this work on selectively, and offer it by donation.
Part I · The conversation
There may be something you're struggling with. A question you can't quite answer. A change happening in your life. Or simply a sense that something is asking for your attention.
There is no agenda. We begin wherever you are.
Part II · The sitting
We sit together in the Naqshbandi tradition, entering a deep meditation and the heart-to-heart transmission that is part of this lineage.
There is nothing you need to know beforehand. No meditation experience is necessary.
If you'd like to sit together, send me a note and tell me a little about what is bringing you here. I read and respond to each one personally.
Get in touch
Open to teaching, guiding, retreats, and collaborations. The fastest way to reach me is email.
info@thesilentspace.ca[ Optional: add a personal email, Instagram, or booking link here ]
