If you’ve arrived here from Insight Timer, then Welcome! I’m glad you’re here. I'm Tess and I guide people through life’s thresholds — the endings, reckonings, awakenings, and quiet turning points that shape who we become. My work weaves meditation, embodied practice, ritual, and grounded reflection to help you live well: with a freer heart, steadier presence, and deeper courage.
This is not about fixing yourself. It’s about meeting your life fully — , about listing life move us, about tending what aches, strengthening what’s true, and walking forward with clarity and soul. Here you’ll find spaces to slow down, come back to your body, and remember what matters most.
Make way for the Mystery- Celtic Ceremony and Meditation Retreat -
Online Thursday October 29th
11am PST, noon MT, 2pm ET, 6pm UK time, 7pm Central Europe time
A potent deep-dive session of meditation, working in partnership with the mystery and in making space for miracles in your life.
Part meditation retreat, part Celtic-ceremony, part space for radical-reflection; this Samhain seasonal-session will make space to mark endings and will create the conditions for new goodness to arrive in your life.
In the Celtic calendar, October the 31st is the last day of the year, it is the festival of Samhain- the shedding season when we let drop what no longer serves and make way for the goodness to come into the space that lies ahead of us. In this seaonal-celebration in the lead up to Samhain, we will practice meditation to still our minds and open our hearts so we might better hear the mystery and what it wants to whisper to us. We will learn tools and techniques for connecting with the unseen world around us, we will speak our own spells - getting ready to receive the grace and goodness of the coming year.
Expect meditation sessions, potent-poetry, ritual and reckoning -as you take the time to come in close to the mystery and make-space for whatever is next in your life.
You are so warmly welcomed to join us for this seasonal deep-dive Samhain celebration BOOK HERE
Tess Howell
Tess is a threshold guide, meditation teacher, and facilitator of embodied rites of passage. She supports people in walking life’s turning points well — grief, forgiveness, change, growth, and the quiet courage of becoming more fully alive.
A Spirit Rock–accredited Dharma and Yoga facilitator with nearly three decades of Insight Meditation practice, Tess weaves contemplative depth with grounded, lived experience. She is an accredited 5Rhythms teacher and has spent the last decade leading mindful movement and conscious dance journeys outdoors, often in wild landscapes, using silent disco technology to create immersive, embodied ritual spaces.
Trained in Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy and as a SomaSource body-based rites of passage facilitator, Tess believes nature is one of our most profound teachers and places of prayer. She currently serves in leadership at the School of Lost Borders, which offer intensive wilderness rites of passage out in deep desert terrain.
Her work is devoted to helping people soften where they have hardened, reclaim their agency, and move through life’s thresholds with presence and soul. She creates spaces where the heart can open, the body can speak, and living becomes more conscious, courageous, and sacred.
UK born and grown, Tess now lives in coastal California, where she continues to teach, dance and delight in life.
Tess loves supporting people to embodying their own experience and move more mindfully through the world.
Tess relishes and cherishes space, sky, sea and stillness. She finds refuge in dance, the dharma, badass basslines and beautiful boots!