She holds a Master’s Degree in Integral Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Wake Forest University. She is a practitioner of vipassana or “insight” meditation, studying at Spirit Rock Meditation Center with Sylvia Boorstein, Jack Cornfield, and Mark Coleman. Ashley is thrilled to bring Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) to the San Francisco mindfulness community where she is an existing mindfulness instructor to youth at several local private schools. She completed her Mindful Self-Compassion teacher training through the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion in 2015.