About Caverly
About Caverly
About Caverly
“Caverly teaches with heart and grace, together with an awesome toolbox of methods to cut through to truth.”
Caverly Morgan is a spiritual teacher, author, speaker, and nonprofit founder. She is the founder and Lead Contemplative of Peace in Schools—a nonprofit which created the nation's first for-credit mindfulness class in public high schools. She is also the founder of Presence Collective, a community of cross-cultural contemplatives committed to personal and collective transformation, creating spaces for wisdom exchange and belonging.
Caverly blends the original spirit of Zen with a modern nondual approach. Her practice began in 1995 and has included eight years of training in a silent Zen monastery. She has been teaching contemplative practice since 2001.
Caverly is the author of A Kid’s Book About Mindfulness. Her new book for adults, The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together, through Sounds True is available here.
Caverly speaks publicly at conferences on topics including contemplative practice, personal and collective transformation, social entrepreneurship, authentic leadership, and mindfulness education, and has been featured in publications such as Mindful magazine (as a cover subject) and The New York Times.
Caverly leads meditation retreats, workshops, and online classes internationally. She has been a teacher and presenter at the Science and Nonduality Conference, 1440 Multiversity, Sangha Live, Esalen, the Mind and Life International Symposium for Contemplative Research, Buddha at the Gas Pump, Open Circle, the New York Zen Center of Contemplative Care, and many more.
Prior to her pioneering efforts with Peace in Schools, Caverly worked for nonprofits serving people with special needs. An artist and educator, she brings insight, passion, warmth and humor to her transformative work with students of all ages and experience levels.
She is dedicated to actualizing possibility, serving love, and embodying the truth of our shared being.
Caverly lives on Whidbey Island, in Washington, with her husband Vineet and their dog Dōgen.
Inspiration (Copy)
Inspiration (Copy)
Inspirations and influences
in my teaching.
Rupert Spira
"In reality, which means in our actual experience, all experience is one seamless substance. The duality between the inside self and the outside object, world or other is never actually experienced. It is always imagined."
Amma
"Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader."
Bankei
”That which is unborn is the Buddha Mind; the Buddha Mind is unborn and marvelously illuminating, and, what’s more, with this Unborn, everything is perfectly managed.”
Peace Pilgrim
"To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life — bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace."
Rumi
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
Jane Goodall
"Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved."
Cheri Huber
“That which you are seeking is causing you to seek.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
Claire of Assisi
"Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow."
bell hooks
“The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.”
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
“A society that does not examine itself is an unenlightened one.”
Ryokan
"How could we discuss
this and that
without knowing
the whole world is
reflected in a single pearl?”
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
“The next Buddha may be a sangha.”
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Love says: “I am everything.” Wisdom says: “I am nothing.” Between the two my life flows.”
Harriet Tubman
"If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more."
Audre Lorde
“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”
Rev. angel Kyodo williams
“Love and Justice are not two. Without inner change, there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.”
Ramana Maharshi
"Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world."
Zen Master Dōgen
“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”
Shunryu Suzuki
“Zen is not just personal practice, and our enlightenment is not just personal attainment. When we attain enlightenment, everything should be enlightened.”
