Grace to your journey of fulfillment

I a m M a i.

It fills me with great joy to welcome you to the realm of meditation. After dedicating thirty years to exploring various meditation practices, I am honored to invite you to start your own journey. Meditation is simply the art of becoming aware of the extraordinary nature of wellbeing.

With more than 30 years of personal experience in "light & sound" meditation, Tai Chi, qigong, and Sheng Zhen Meditation, combined with 14 years of teaching, I am dedicated to guiding you along this meditative path. As you nurture inner peace and develop a clearer prosperity mindset, your leadership style and creativity will naturally harmonize with your unique approach to life.

My dedication to the practice of wholeness stems from my background as an architect, where I obtained a bachelor's degree in Environmental Design from TAMU and a Master of Architecture from the University of Houston. My personal challenges with mental and physical health led me to investigate the profound connection between the subconscious mind and emotional wellbeing, deepening my understanding of whole-health beyond mental health.

Today, I am committed to supporting a new generation of emerging and revitalized leaders who aspire to embrace a culture of whole-health for themselves, their families, and their teams.

Since my return to TAMU in 2017, I have joined the faculty in the Kinesiology and Sport Management department as an adjunct instructor, teaching courses such as Meditation for Stress & Anxiety and Meditation for Leaders. In addition, R.E.S.T. will be launching at the TAMU College of Medicine to third year medical students at the Willow Brook Campus in connection to the Methodist Hospital.

My passion for promoting whole-health has garnered grant funding for initiatives like TAMU Urban Farm United (TUFU), an aeroponic project aimed at supplying fresh produce to the campus food pantry, known as the 12th Can. Aggies Meditate, another grant-funded initiative focused on social sustainability, provides meditation classes for the campus community, including students, faculty, and staff. The success of Aggies Meditate has paved the way for additional funding to develop a training program for dedicated meditation students, enabling them to promote Meditation In Motion As Medicine across campus through student organizations.

As the alarm for mental health elevates its urgency across communities, the concepts from meditation, with love and compassion are positioned to assist.

I look forward to sharing with you the messages of Meditation In Motion As Medicine.

My Story

Mai Story

I have vivid memories of my time at my grandmother's Buddhist temple In 1972. I sat for hours beside a lotus pond watching the colorful koi fish darting in and out from beneath the lotus leaves. The site of this Buddhist temple was in Saigon, Vietnam. My grandmother joined the order of the nun after my grandfather passed away. I was born into a country steeped in violent conflicts. The atrocities of the war spared no one the taste of grief. The simple friendship of lotus blossoms and koi fish gave solace to a seven year old girl amongst the sounds of sirens, bomb drops and gunfires that cruelly negated connections to life.

By September of 1975, we have crossed over to the other side of my families' harrowing escape to America. With the help of the US Marines, we escaped the fall of Saigon by three days and landed at Camp Pendleton in California for refugee processing. We are forever gratefulness.

In the decades that followed, I lived day to day asking the kid in me to confront working through the anatomy of what it meant to survive the loss of my home and my familial culture. But, America, the land of opportunity gifted us with the challenges of integration as the backdrop for my family's journey from loss to recovery.

My ten year old self dug deep for the courage to survive the tidal waves of uncertainties as the greetings from the land of the American dream.

"Just put your head down and work hard, we will rebuild" was my parents mantra for my two brothers and me. "Put your head down" meant to not complain and make a fuss about everything. And so I did exactly that. There is much truth to the statement, we make decisions from either inspirations or desperations, it was the latter that drove and fed my tenacity for success.

By the time I made it to college, I recognized that the sense of constant desperation actually formulated the perfect recipe for anxiety heading me straight into lack consciousness. In translation, lack consciousness is that nagging sense of emptiness lying just beneath the outer celebrations of success whispering, that's not good enough.

However, for every act of desperation, the whispers of inspiration came in the familiar sensation of peace and wholeness felt at the temple lotus pond. From so many years ago, that sensation of safety became the chimes of hope that kept my sense of self-worth at the forefront of the daily grind.

The lotus became my symbolic fuel to search for hope, love, and meaning as I ventured into my professional careers. My early twenties as a freshmen at Texas A&M University, a fish out of water, I reached back to be an apprentice to the lotus teachings of "know thyself". Thus, I set out to rebuild my mind set and trained under the tutelage of masters in the world of meditation, martial arts, and the internal martial arts of tai chi and Qigong.

My apprenticeship lured me deeper into my personal path of self-mastery via the moment to moment experiences of living. Meditation was my daily sanctuary of renewal as I ventured forth to receive my Masters degree in architecture, owned my own fine arts photography studio, took a teaching position at Auburn University, all while wearing the hats of being a mother, a wife, and a daughter.

I have now arrived at a place in my life where I know my personal truth for my existence in this wild and wonderful planet we all call "home". I now live with an insatiable appetite to expand from love, see the light of joy in everyone, laugh at the offerings of limitations, and play in the cosmic playground of Unconditional Love.

It is my hope that as you read this, we will soon meet in the space of perfect synchronization. For there is no such thing as an accident only synchronicities.

With love and light to you and your team, I will meet you on your shore of success.