Ralph Steele

Ralph has been teaching Insight Meditation since 1987. As a marriage, family and individual therapist his specialty is treating complex trauma & teaching advanced meditation practices. He is certified as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and in Integral Somatic Psychology by the founder, Raja Selvam, Ph.D. Since 2014, Ralph has been assisting Dr. Selvam in advanced trainings. In 1988, Ralph founded the first Elizabeth Kübler-Ross Hospice training program at Northern New Mexico Community College. Ralph is currently the Guiding Teacher for the Life Transition Meditation Center, a meditation-based trauma & meditation center, which he founded in 2003. His first book, Tending the Fire, an autobiography, explores his year as a Buddhist monk in Thailand and Myanmar.