Nancy Hathaway has practiced and taught meditation for 25 plus years. She holds a Masters Degree in Education with a track in Counseling Psychology. In 1974 Nancy began her Buddhist studies in Kopan Monastery, a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal. Since that time, she has studied extensively with Asian and Western teachers in the Zen, Theravada, and Tibetan traditions. She is a parent of two successful, kind, compassionate, and happy young men who were born in the Zen Temple where she lived and trained for six years. She is a Senior Dharma Teacher in the international Kwan Um Zen School.

In 1990 in Cambridge, MA, she founded the program, Being Present With Our Children; parenting mindfully which offers retreats, workshops, classes, one on one sessions, and telephone appointments for parents who are interested in exploring mindfulness in everyday family life. In 2005 an anthology for mothers was published by Shambala Publications, Your Children Will Raise You, The Joys, Challenges, and Life Lessons of Motherhood, edited by Eden Steinberg, in which Nancy has an essay titled, "I'm Breathing, Are You?" This same essay has been included in The Best Buddhist Writing 2006 published in October 2006 by Shambala.

In 2005 she founded the Center for Studying Mindfulness - In Work, Family, Health, & Relationship. Being 8^th generation Maine, Nancy is delighted to be back home in Maine living close to the Morgan Bay Zendo, on the coast of the Blue Hill Peninsular.

Nancy has a private consultation practice in Blue Hill, Ellsworth, and Bangor, Maine and Cambridge, MA. She especially enjoys working with couples, parents, and families who are interested in integrating mindfulness in everyday life.

She also offers telephone consultations, workplace wellness programs, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programs in Businesses, Universities, schools, and Healthcare settings, classes, workshops, and retreats. Email Nancy@CenterforStudyingMindfulness.com for more information.