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Meditation

The Gateway to 
Leadership BE-ingness® and
SELf-Transformation for Systemic-Transformation®

Imagine...

…your leadership amplified to serve with presence, empathy, and compassion.
…you embody equity, inclusion, and belonging for everyone you serve.
…you are more courageous. 
…you are the leader you’ve always dreamed of being. 

…there is nothing you can’t achieve for the greater good. 

Taking it from the Re-Search
to the
Me-Search.

I practice what I teach. I’ve had a daily meditation practice for 30 years. Intuitively, I knew that the key to leadership success was greater self-awareness and personal growth & development. Meditation started as a personal healing tool and then it enhanced my leadership in ways I couldn’t prove or imagine. The science hadn’t caught up yet with what I knew was happening in me. Now, the research is there - and the Me-Search is too. I teach mediation from an intuitive, embodied expertise that few in our sector have.”

- Tovi

Mindfulness Research Publications

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1994

When Tovi began her meditation practice

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Note: this graph shows the number of articles that were published each year by searching for the term “mindfulness” on PubMed, a research search site

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Experienced. Embodied.

  • 30 years of daily meditation practice

  • Attended 4 week-long retreats since 2008

  • Meditation teacher since 1994

  • Certified Instructor in Emotionally Intelligent Leadership via Meditation since 2013

  • Emotional Intelligence Assessment Practitioner & Trainer

  • Mindful Magazine's "Top 10 Powerful Women in Mindfulness" in 2021

Tovi's Unique Approach to Meditation

What is A.W.A.R.-ing
Meditation?

A.W.A.R.ing™ Framework for
Equity, Healing, & Transformation

Meditation is a practice of deepening into oneself. It is a portal to deeper self-knowing and emotional intelligence. This process is one of inner-unfolding and is completely personal and unique. As your meditation practice develops, you learn from your own inner-wisdom how to more intentionally and consistently align your actions (what you DO) with your mindset, lens, values (how you BE). This is truly the hallmark of a great leader. 

 

Tovi’s meditations guide leaders into a deep inner-exploration through her signature framework of AWAR-ing™.

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"Incorporating meditation in my racial healing journey has enhanced my self-awareness & groundedness in navigating the complexities of DEI leadership."

Doran Navarro-Degrafinried
DEI Lead at Roche-Genentech Group

Inimitable Meditation Experiences
With Tovi 

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Care for yourself with
deep R.E.S.T. practice, a synergy of Tovi's work inspired by Tricia Hersey

Revolutionary R.E.S.T. 
Meditation

Develop your leadership
BE-ing for effective DO-ing with Tovi's free Leadership Meditation.  

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SELf-Transformation for Systemic Transformation® is rooted in an emotionally intelligent leadership approach stemming from meditation. Practice w/ Tovi & Trio.

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Upcoming Meditation Retreats

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QUIETUDE

A Meditation Retreat Series for Professional Spirituality, Leadership BE-ingness & H.E.A.L’ing to Oneness

February 28, March 28, April 25, and May 30, 2026

Skyline Center

Oakland Hills, CA

In the serenity of nature, easefully above the urban hustle

"This retreat was a beautiful blend of deep connection with other soul-led leaders and coming home to myself through deep presence and reflection in lots of silence. Tovi embodies presence and an honoring of humanity and that presence calls forth others who desire the same, creating such a sacred and safe space for the healing that occurred for me and others at the retreat. I'm beyond grateful for these beautiful, healing days and moments."


- Katie R.,
Founder & CEO,
Constant Love & Learning

"I highly recommend this retreat! It is a refuge from the chaos of life; it is an invitation to slow down. Are you needing time to just breathe? Are you contemplating something personal or professional that you cannot seem to get your head around? You are reading this now because this is your calling to come. You will not be disappointed."

- Lisa S-G.,
Home-Based Manager,
Early Head Start

A wonderful and life changing opportunity. The things and info and strategies shared all contributed. I have made small and large changes due to the support, suggestions, and opportunity to think and plan and incorporate ideas. I loved the guests, I loved the participants, and I love learning with Tovi. I loved being able to be in the presence of leaderful women, and get to engage and also have group silence and meditation. The whole retreat was beautiful, powerful, healing... exceeded my expectations"

 

-Participant

My first meditation retreat was a week of silence in 2004.

I was exhausted, burnt-out, and overwhelmed with the loudness of life that I thought was normal. I just wanted a moment to “pause” - make the loudness and busyness of my own life stop. My initial draw to the retreat was to stop, to hide, to find an escape.  I had no idea that my life - and leadership - would change forever. I had no idea that the foundation of that retreat would anchor me more deeply to myself and a commitment to live a lifestyle with greater presence and authenticity - a life that I would not need to hide or escape from.  

 

I could go on, yet since then, my work and life speak to the power of this practice more fully than I could ever describe here. All because I got quiet, got still, slowed down, and went inward. To BE different, I had to DO different. The retreat gave me space to practice do-ing different so I could start be-ing different.

 

I want to share this experience with you, I want to share Professional Spirituality® with you. While we will not do a week of silence (yet!), I invite you to join me for a sacred weekend of sacred work: YOU & YOUR LEADERSHIP.  We will truly do the work of embodying self-transformation for systemic-transformation® 

 

Free of interruption, we will engage in our own container on the beautiful grounds, enjoying three healthy meals each day, the peace of nature, a sacred learning space, outdoor amphitheater for talks, and creativity. There will be periods for us to honor the power of Deep Silence. We will learn together, rest together, and meditate together. Of course, there will be space for you to simply BE at your own pace as well.

Tovi C. Scruggs was named one of Mindful’s 10 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement: 2021 who are igniting the world with courage and wisdom. She is an award-winning educator with almost 30 years of leadership, meditation, and school transformation experience. She has had a daily meditation practice since 1993, and has done four week-long silent retreats. She is a recognized leader in teaching meditation, resilience, and belonging. Tovi cultivates conscious, connected, and courageous leaders world-wide.

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Together, we will heal, transform, and lead as we cultivate greater emotional intelligence,
well-BEing, and
compassion.

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Meditations for Leaders

 

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For $9/month, enjoy access to FULL library of meditations:
 

  • BE-ing Silence: skillfully integrating the Sacred Pause into your everyday leadership

  • BE-ing Belonging: practicing equity in leadership 

  • BE-ing with the Breath

  • BE-ing with the Body

  • BE-ingness Affirmations: strengthen your leadership with positive affirmations

  • BE-ing Leadership: specific leadership-oriented practices

  • BE-ing Courage

  • Revolutionary R.E.S.T. 

  • And more! 

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