Charlene Cambridge was introduced to meditation, hatha yoga, tantric yoga and some transcendental meditation in Trinidad and Tobago as a child. She has attended several long retreats at IMS in Barre, MA. where she was exposed to prominent teachers such as: Angela Dews, nakawe cuebas berrios, Ruth King, JoAnna Hardy, Devin Berry, DaRa Williams, Kamala Masters, Bonnie Durant, and Larry Yang.
Charlene has for the last 4 years participated in in-person daylong retreats at NYIMC, as well as courses, classes and retreats online at IMS and NYIMC.
At the moment, she is a Practice Leader at the NYIMC-Harlem Sangha and she is in the process of enrolling in the MBSR Teacher Training program.
Charlene maintains a daily practice of walking, sitting, and other models of meditation. Charlene follows the NYIMC Insight or Vipassana meditation within the Theravada Buddhist tradition.
Charlene has an Master of Arts (MA) in English Language & Literacy from City College of New York and BA in Liberal Arts. Charlene has worked with multicultural communities. For the last 3 years, she has taught an Happiness course to incoming freshman at a Latino serving college in the North Bronx.
Charlene believes that teaching about joy and happiness, especially mudita, is a way to interrupt the toxic individualism that indoctrinates people into a culture of grasping.
Charlene is a writer, a published poet, and a visual artist.