People sometimes ask what I do, and I’ve learned over the years that there just isn’t a short answer.

I’ve been a lawyer, advocate, entrepreneur, writer, and teacher.

I’ve also spent more than twenty years practicing mindfulness and yoga.

When I tell people the truth about all I have done and all I still do, it can sound as though I walk several different paths.

But I don’t.

I’ve always been drawn to work that eases suffering, strengthens connection, and helps people find their way, whether that happens through the legal system, a meditation practice, a map, or a quiet place in the woods.

In the other parts of my professional life, I’ve represented survivors of abuse, helped build legal and advocacy programs, worked to change systems and institutions, and written and organized alongside others working for change.

I’ve also helped grow Purple Lizard Maps, our family business devoted to helping people discover extraordinary places.

Through Path to Calm, and at Sandstone Sanctuary, a little retreat in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania, I’ve created spaces where people can slow down, reconnect with nature, and come home to themselves.

Different expressions.

The same work.

Like everyone else sharing this human experience, I’ve done that work through many seasons, including grief, disappointment, uncertainty, and times that have felt overwhelming.

Lately, as many of the social and environmental justice movements I care about have faced setbacks, I’ve wrestled with how to stay engaged without becoming overwhelmed, how to continue caring without burning out, and how to keep showing up when the work feels bigger than any one person.

For me, the answer has often been simple.

More practice.

Mindfulness and yoga practices have been my anchors through decades of work.

They shape how I lead, how I listen, how I work, how I make decisions, and how I return to what matters when life pulls me off course.

Teaching at Path to Calm, which I have now been doing for more than a decade, is simply one expression of that practice.

I founded Path to Calm because I wanted a place where I could teach slowly, personally, and on my own terms.

A place where practice wasn’t another thing to accomplish, but somewhere to return.

That’s what I hope you’ll find here.

Teaching Approach

My teaching draws from mindfulness meditation, yoga, conscious breathing, deep relaxation, and embodied practices that support steadiness, awareness, and connection.

Sometimes that looks like a quiet meditation.

Sometimes gentle movement.

Sometimes breathing.

Sometimes simply learning how to stay with ourselves through whatever life is asking of us.

I have practiced mindfulness and yoga for more than twenty years and have been teaching since 2013.

My formal training in this space includes the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, led by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield through UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. During that training, I had the honor of working with Kate Johnson, who remains an important mentor.

I have also trained extensively in TriYoga®, studying yogaflow®, pranayama, Prana Vidya, meditation, yoga breathing, energy practices, and deep relaxation with Yogini Kaliji, Santoshi Devi, and Theresa Shay.

My teachers have also included the people, communities, challenges, and natural places that have shaped my own life and work.

The natural world is central to both my practice and my teaching. It reminds me that we are part of something larger and offers a way back to perspective, steadiness, and connection.

That is the spirit I hope to bring to our time together.

Path to Calm is one part of my broader work in the world.

If you’re curious about my writing, advocacy, legal work, or other projects, you’re welcome to visit JustineAndronici.com.

Wherever you are, and wherever you’re heading, you are welcome here.