Our Teachers

Tracy’s mindfulness practice began in 2015 during a trip to the Colorado mountains. This journey brought her a great sense of self-awareness, peace, and healing. Since 2019, she has continued to deepen her practice with meditation and mindfulness.

As a yoga teacher, health care worker, and volunteer, she continues to acknowledge the need to create and build more kind, loving, and compassionate communities.

Tracy believes that the way to heal ourselves is to help others heal—one individual at a time.

Life is difficult. Kim appreciates how mindfulness helps us keep our balance through the ups and downs and have more compassion for ourselves and others. After raising two sons and retiring from her law practice, Kim signed up for a meditation class in 2019, looking for some relief from persistent feelings of disappointment and agitation. The whole world was annoying her!

She began to see how her mind was a source of those difficult feelings, and that early insight keeps her devoted to a practice of daily meditation and study, reinforced by teacher-led retreats. Kim is also a certified Alternatives to Violence facilitator and student of Marshall Rosenberg’s practice of Nonviolent Communication.

The present moments that make up a life pass so quickly, they’re hard to see. In the midst of the busyness, Kim enjoys supporting others on their own journey to live with more choice, compassion, and ease.

Carlos was introduced to mindful meditation during treatment for substance abuse in May of 2015. While being treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, he found mindfulness practices brought the greatest relief and deepened his understanding of how to live a happy, productive life with trauma.

This path eventually led him to begin his study of the Dharma, including various meditation practices and going on silent retreats. He currently works with veterans suffering from addiction and PTSD and inmates at the Douglas County Department of Corrections facility with the Begin Again: Mindfulness Behind Bars Program.

Susie shares mindfulness as a foundation for cultivating present-moment awareness, nurturing nervous system well-being, and building emotional intelligence skills. As a parent of two adolescents, she finds mindfulness essential to relating well within the caregiving dynamic.

With experience in education and change management, Susie has completed extensive training with Mindful Schools, studied Restorative Practices with the Yukon Circle of Change, and is a registered 200-hour yoga teacher and a registered Circle of Security Parenting facilitator. She is currently pursuing a degree in clinical mental health counseling at UNO.

Discovering mindfulness practice in 2012 changed my life for the better in countless ways, and I welcome any opportunity to pay it forward. I am especially drawn to working with the underserved communities among us and count teaching at the correctional center as some of my life's most meaningful work.

Mindfulness Practitioner and Teacher in various educational and community settings in Omaha since 2013.

Mindfulness Teacher in Women's Unit at Douglas County Correctional Center since 2018

2019 Graduate of Mindful Teacher Certification Program (Mindful Schools)

2018 Graduate of Mindfulness Teacher Training Certification Program (Sean Fargo's Mindfulness Exercises)

2018 Participant in Sitting in the Fire Training: Mindfulness Practices for People in Prisons and Jails (San Quentin State Prison in California).

Anne is dedicated to sharing mindfulness and meditation practices to create a better understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

She spent 20 years in public education as a teacher and educational leader. For over ten years, she has been a devoted student of mindfulness and meditation. She has completed numerous certifications, trainings, and retreats to strengthen her own practice and help guide others in theirs.

Her teaching is guided by encouraging awareness and compassion through everyday mindfulness and finding a meditation practice that works for each individual.

Kyle Sorys began practicing mindfulness meditation in 2008. Inspired by the fruits of meditation practice, Kyle then moved to Boulder, CO, to enroll at Naropa University. While there, he earned a Bachelor's degree in Contemplative Psychology and a Master of Divinity.

Kyle returned to Omaha in 2016 and now serves as an interfaith chaplain for APUS University and Care Initiatives Hospice. He also teaches mindfulness meditation for the Begin Again program at the Douglas County Corrections.

His mission is to nurture mindfulness, understanding, and harmlessness through mindfulness practices to foster a sense of purpose and belonging that embraces the richness of human diversity and our common humanity.