Get an Inner Life MEDITATE

About the Book

Doreena initiated a Prison Meditation Program in the men’s prison in Texas to teach inmates how to meditate and connect with their inner beings. As a highly sensitive person and intuitive empath, Doreena embraces new ideas, cultures, and religions. She expounds upon the benefits of meditation while using personal stories, anecdotes, and insights that inspire others to embark on their own meditation and spiritual journeys. Inmates learn that even though they are in prison, they have value and worth as human beings and can find healing and redemption as they return to society. Doreena emphasizes that we are all interconnected. What we do to each other, we do to ourselves.

Doreena invites you to join her as she leads you down the prison courtyard past hundreds of inmates into the chapel library. There she conducts classes for inmates to experience two hours of peace and silence in the chaotic prison environment. The heightened energy is palpable during group meditations. She hopes they will incorporate meditation in their daily lives. “Getting an inner life” promotes hope and healing as the inmates draw upon spiritual energy, in an effort to make amends for past deeds. Paying it forward will uplift others who are seeking freedom from bondage.

About the Author

Doreena’s life experiences have been eclectic. Beginning in early childhood in Chicago playing bass guitar in a family band with her siblings, she worked at several offices in downtown Chicago, as an entertainer in Las Vegas, business owner, office manager, medical student advisor, and medical education coordinator at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine. She taught meditation and life skills to ex-convicts in Dallas, TX; and was founder of the Prison Meditation Program, TX.

Doreena is a prominent figure in the field of meditation and served as President of the American Meditation Society from 2018 to 2022. In 1977, a Spiritual Master set her on a lifelong quest to unfold to her inner wisdom.

She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree followed by a Masters of Educational Studies degree at UIC. From 1991-1993 she served on the Dialogue Committee for a Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions to celebrate the 100 year anniversary where religious leaders from around the world came to Chicago to celebrate unity. In 1991, she sponsored a Tibetan immigrant for the Tibetan Resettlement Project in Chicago. Doreena is affectionately known as “The Bridge” due to her ability to connect people from different ethnic and religious backgrounds, promoting unity and understanding.