Karl Baker

Karl has practiced mindfulness and meditation for over 22 years. He is the founder of Mindfulness Works, leading a team of mindfulness teachers and creating the Mindfulness Works Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation course, which over 40,000 people have completed. Karl’s approach emphasizes trusting one's own authority. His retreats focus on love, acceptance, and compassion. Karl sees our humanity as a vehicle for awakening rather than a barrier. He is trauma-informed and calls upon modern psychology in his offerings. Karl loves simple, dogma and technique free meditation practices and teaches from a context that always honors our own inherent OKness, inviting use to experience this here and now. His retreats have a stripped back approach, encouraging you to trust your own experience, allowing your inner teacher to flourish, facilitating insight, depth and a tacit sense of presence and unconditional love. Karl’s retreats are suitable for absolute beginners as well as those with meditation and retreat experience.