Judith Avinger has a long history with meditation and other spiritual practices in several traditions, including yoga, Sufism and Buddhism. She is also a mentor and leader of the Dances of Universal Peace, a moving meditation that draws from all spiritual paths. She discovered SIMS around ten years ago when she did a retreat with Tim and Keri at Cloud Mountain. Around the same time, she realized she was being drawn to the Buddhist teachings through the Dances of Universal Peace from that tradition. She moved back to Bellingham in the spring of 2020 after living and working in Quebec for 30 years. Since the pandemic was at its height, she began looking for an online meditation group and rediscovered SIMS. She has been meditating and studying with the SIMS teachers since then. In January of 2024, she retired from her long-time job as technical writer and translator for a software company in Montreal and began to devote even more of her time to her spiritual practices. She also spends her free time writing haiku, playing the piano and gardening.

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Venmo: @Judith-Avinger