““Both Mindfulness and Trauma Healing work are invitations to reconnect more fully with our present moment experience. Thus, these modalities serve and complement each other, working toward a more integrated, whole self””
Such Sweet Thunder is a space for two kinds of journey. Sometimes both at once.
For those navigating trauma, addiction recovery, or the weight of difficult experience: there is skilled, compassionate support here, rooted in advanced clinical training and forty years of contemplative practice.
For those deepening a meditation practice or exploring the contemplative path: there are retreats, year-long immersives, dharma teachings, and a library of hundreds of free resources.
Both journeys are held in the same spirit — that every human being, regardless of what they carry, is worthy of care, wisdom, and genuine presence.
I am navigating pain, trauma, and/or recovery → Healing & Recovery
I am deepening/exploring/curious about a contemplative/mindfulness/meditation practice → Contemplative Practice
“Finding Wholeness is Such Sweet Thunder.”
Finding spaciousness to hold the thunder is resilience.
About Christopher
Christopher Luard has practiced meditation for forty years and has been teaching worldwide since 2009. He is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional at the advanced level (CCTP-II), a Certified Mindfulness Teacher (CMT-P) and the author of two books.
His work brings together the depth of multiple contemplative lineages with advanced trauma-informed clinical training — because he has found, over decades of practice and teaching, that these two streams of understanding illuminate each other profoundly.
Everyone is Welcome here. No one is turned away for lack of funds.
