Peter McEwen focuses on providing instruction and support for practitioners balancing the dizzying array of work and family commitments that modern life demands. In a society that prioritizes output, meditation and mindfulness practices are often conflated with self-optimization. Instead, we can view meditation as a tool that reveals our immediate experience - discomfort and all - as a reliable source of well-being and problem-solving. He has completed the traditional 3-year retreat curriculum of Vajrayana Buddhism.