Training Leaders

The Radiance Sutras® Meditation Teacher Training is led by Dr. Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine.

Lorin Roche, PhD

Lorin was lucky enough to begin practicing asana, pranayama, and meditation in 1968, and he still feels like a beginner – every day. He was trained as a meditation teacher in 1969-1970 and has been sharing the delight ever since. Lorin is the author of six books, including Meditation Made Easy, Meditation Secrets for Women, and The Radiance Sutras. At the University of California at Irvine, his Master’s Degree work focused on the injuries and developmental crises provoked by meditation and opening the chakras. His Ph.D. research was on the language of inner experience in meditation - the way meditators describe their inner worlds. Dr. Roche is the founder of Instinctive Meditation, based on his extensive research and teaching an approach that is designed to match one's individual nature. He has served for many years as a faculty member of Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, 1440 Multiversity, Esalen Institute, Loyola Marymount university and SAND Science and Nonduality. Lorin lives in Marina del Rey, California with his yogini shaktini wife, Camille Maurine.

Lorin’s website: lorinroche.com

Camille Maurine

Camille is a meditation mentor, dancer, and the author of the groundbreaking Meditation Secrets for Women and Meditation 24/7, both written with her husband, Dr. Lorin Roche.

Camille is an intrepid traveler on the path of embodiment, venturing into the heights and depths of spirituality and love. Her work is a shimmering fusion of meditation, movement, and expressive practices, with a special passion for women’s spiritual empowerment.

In addition to her decades of dance, yoga, and meditation, Camille’s integrative approach draws upon training in various healing arts, including the study of Jungian depth psychology and Continuum Movement for many years. She is the creator of Moving Theater of the Soul, a transformational creative process.

Over their 40 years of relationship, Camille and Lorin have been cross-pollinating their discoveries and insights, co-creating their liberating approach to inner practices. Together they are the founders of Instinctive Meditation® and the Radiance Sutras® School of Meditation.

200-hour RSMTT Supporting Faculty

Michael McDowall

Yoga and meditation have been part of my life for nearly 20 years. I offer yoga classes, restorative workshops (including Bowen Therapy and Reiki treatments) and, of course, readings from The Radiance Sutras. I completed 350 hours Yoga teacher training in 2011, and have been studying with Lorin and Camille since 2016.

Michael lives in Queensland, Australia, and leads weekly Saturday live classes with Nancy and Sunday practice sessions for our 200-hour RSMTT.

Kyle Schauenberg

I came to teach yoga and meditation out of sheer necessity. I had tried everything I could get my hands on to try to heal or cope with my anxiety and depression. When I became a mom, the need became vital and I was inexplicably pulled to yoga. The right teachers for me dropped in and instinctive meditation became my medicine.

Since 2012, I have been learning to meditate with Lorin and Camille. Between my work with them and my other yoga trainings, I have studied in 14 different group meditation teacher immersions. Beyond that, my indulgent form of study is mentorship. I have worked one-on-one with Lorin since 2014.

As a meditation coach and yoga instructor, I have worked in Connecticut, Chicago and Italy. Currently, I have a space in Sarasota, Florida, where I see clients in the same mentorship capacity through which I have deepened my own practice. I also volunteer with nonprofit groups offering meditation to their staff.

I relish the chance to support meditators in listening to themselves lovingly and honestly. And I am completely fascinated by the ways we learn to take care of ourselves, heal and unfurl.

Kyle facilitates our Wednesday morning Practice Sessions

heather Briann

As the founder of ALTAR movement, she loves the opportunity to gather community in order to facilitate experiences that help each person awaken to their own inner vitality. She weaves ritual, nature cycles, instinctive meditation, functional movement, biomechanics and yoga asana into her classes showing the truest reflection of her own experience of living out this path of intimacy with self, others and all of life. She loves nothing more than to open her heart, mind and soul to those curious souls who are willing to explore movement in all its various forms.

Heather facilitates our Thursday morning Study Groups.

Radiance Sutras Meditation Teacher Training Community

Our Radiance Sutras® Meditation Teacher Training community is a vibrant, dynamic connection with a diverse group of women and men around the world. We have a splendid range of livelihood, geography, and experience – an array of individual differences within the commonality of our shared humanity on Planet Earth. 

This web of connection is inspiring and supportive for one and all. We learn from one another. The steady rhythm of online communication and in-person events creates a fertile context to explore and evolve the field of meditation, up close and personal. Meaningful, lasting relationships form among participants as each of us goes deeper into the mystery of being alive.

We have over 280 teachers who are certified to offer Instinctive Meditation® at 200-hour level.

We currently have 450+ certified teachers and trainees in our private membership community.