Teachings

Explorations in Stillness arose from a simple and lifelong inquiry: What is it about ourselves that is already whole, healed, healthy, and awake, even in the midst of the inevitable challenges of life?

learning how to rest in stillnes

After decades of practice, study, and teaching, I have found that true healing and awakening do not come from trying to fix ourselves through effort or striving for self-improvement, but from learning how to recognize and rest deeply in the stillness that underlies all experience.

This work is an invitation to pause, to listen, and to discover what remains when striving falls away. Again and again, I have witnessed that when we meet ourselves with openness and kindness, a profound awakening naturally reveals itself—a sense of wholeness, peace, and freedom that is not created, but remembered.

Rooted in both ancient nondual wisdom traditions and contemporary understandings of psychology and the human nervous system, practices offered invite a direct, embodied experience of indestructible wholeness and well-being—one that includes mind, body, heart, soul, and spirit.

Through meditation and self-inquiry, participants are gently guided to meet life as it is, to transform habitual patterns of suffering, and to rediscover the peace and freedom that are already present within them. Rather than striving toward an ideal state, the teachings support a natural unfolding—where awakening to Essential Nature reveals what has never been absent, and wholeness becomes our lived reality in everyday life.

Teachings

EIS Programs offer spacious and embodied explorations of stillness as doorways to healing and awakening. Through meditation, inquiry, and periods of quiet reflection, participants are supported in meeting themselves with openness and kindness.

As effort softens and attention settles, something deeply familiar reveals itself—a sense of wholeness, connection, and freedom that has always been present. This is less about doing and more about remembering.

  • “An encounter with meditation teacher Richard Miller is an encounter that you do not forget. He is one of this generation’s most important teachers of nondual wisdom, offering meditation to the West with a level of sophistication and depth that is both rare and necessary, reminding us that freedom, enlightenment, and awakening are not distant goals but our very nature. His nondual teachings and practices are wonderfully delicious—simple yet profound, immediately transformative, and, like all authentic spiritual work, fruitful from the very first moment of practice.”

    —Stephan Cope, Author of Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

  • “Richard Miller eloquently invites everyone, from all pathways and spiritual traditions, to join him in this most powerful practice of meditation. His wise guidance is clear and inspiring. His teachers are a must for everyone who hears the call and feels the inner longing for enlightenment.”

    —Lilias Folan. Author of Lilias! Yoga Gets Better with Age


  • “Gratitude fills my heart for the deep teachings Richard offers. And also gratitude for the clear and gentle way he guides us on a most personal journey—the journey home to ourselves. His teachings are to be ingested slowly on the deepest levels.”


    —Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD. Author of Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life

  • “Richard is the ultimate teacher of teachers. His shares his teachings from his personal experience with clarity and precision, offering us the concise path to our true nature.”


    —Larry Payne, PhD. Founder, Samata Yoga and Yoga Rx Therapy