About Caverly
About Caverly
About Us
We are committed to igniting personal transformation and collective awakening. Through our offerings and business model, we are dedicated to actualizing possibility, serving love, and embodying the truth of our shared being.
Caverly Morgan (she/her)
Founder and Lead Contemplative
Caverly Morgan is a spiritual teacher, non-profit founder, speaker and writer who blends the original spirit of Zen with a modern nondual and relational approach. Her practice began in 1995 and has included eight years of training in a silent Zen monastery. She has been teaching contemplative practice since 2001.
Caverly is the author of The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together as well as A Kids Book About Mindfulness.
She is also the founder and Lead Contemplative of Peace in Schools, a nonprofit that created the nation’s first for-credit mindfulness class in public high schools.
She speaks publicly at conferences on topics including contemplative practice, personal and collective transformation, relational dharma, social entrepreneurship, authentic leadership, and mindfulness education, and has been featured in publications such as Mindful magazine (as a cover subject) and The New York Times.
Caverly leads meditation retreats, workshops, and online classes internationally— bringing insight, passion, warmth and humor to her transformative work with students of all ages and experience levels.
She has been a teacher and presenter at the Science and Nonduality Conference, Harvard, 1440 Multiversity, Sangha Live, San Francisco Zen Center, Esalen, the Mind and Life International Symposium for Contemplative Research, Insights at the Edge, Buddha at the Gas Pump, Open Circle, the New York Zen Center of Contemplative Care, and many more.
Caverly is dedicated to actualizing possibility, serving love, and embodying the truth of our shared being.
She lives on Whidbey Island, in Washington, with her husband Vineet and their dog Dōgen.
The Team
Ashley Dahl (she/her)
Managing Director
As Managing Director, Ashley combines strategy and heart to bring the mission of our organization to life– through what we offer and how we do business. She holds a Masters in Social Work from the University of Washington, with further graduate training in interdisciplinary collaboration and human services leadership.
Prior to working with Caverly, she served as Executive Director of one of the largest independent yoga studios in the U.S. In addition to guiding our business, Ashley offers contemplative-based leadership and lifework coaching, supporting people and organizations to realize their full creative potential.
A champion of compassionate self-awareness, she also teaches mindfulness and nature meditation, as well as Yoga Nidra (guided relaxation.) When not working you might find Ashley sleeping under the stars, rewilding her yard, or going on adventures near and far with loved ones. You can learn more about Ashley at openspacemindfulness.com.
Rahim Nanos (he/they)
Digital Media Manager
Rahim’s role as Digital Media Manager is to amplify Caverly’s vision for collective awakening. An experienced copywriter, he combines his diverse skills to create messages that resonate deeply.
Rahim believes in the power of personal responsibility and self-leadership, fostering transformation and growth on both individual and collective levels. He is passionate about alchemizing painful experiences into creativity, new life, and wisdom.
Rahim's journey began at the age of 8 with martial arts, instilling discipline and focus early on.
At 18, he deepened his practice by embracing mindfulness meditation and joining the Sufi order, which enriched his understanding of inner peace and spiritual growth.
Rahim is also a shamanic practitioner in training and a spiritual coach who leads programs teaching embodiment, inner child healing, and manifestation.
Outside of work, he delights in cooking and baking, working with animals, playing music, and writing. You can learn more about Rahim at modernspiritualistcoaching.com.
Jenna Tighe (she/her)
Administrative and Engagement Coordinator
As our Administrative and Engagement Coordinator, Jenna ensures that our daily operations are infused with efficiency and grace.
Committed to presence, enthusiasm, and service, she seamlessly blends community building with business growth.
Jenna also teaches Vedic Meditation and gives talks on Vedanta for the Householder, breaking down complex concepts into approachable insights.
She enjoys showing people how to simplify life by realizing their innate potential, offering tools to realize who they truly are by letting go of all they are not.
Whatever the endeavor, Jenna’s goal is to leave everyone she encounters feeling more present and expansive.
When not working, she enjoys meditating, reading, exploring nature, taking road trips, and spending quality time with her family. You can learn more about Jenna at https://www.theneutralmindonline.com.
Inspiration (Copy)
Inspiration (Copy)
Inspirations and influences
in Caverly’s teachings.
Rupert Spira
"In reality, which means in our actual experience, all experience is one seamless substance. The duality between the inside self and the outside object, world or other is never actually experienced. It is always imagined."
Amma
"Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader."
Bankei
”That which is unborn is the Buddha Mind; the Buddha Mind is unborn and marvelously illuminating, and, what’s more, with this Unborn, everything is perfectly managed.”
Peace Pilgrim
"To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life — bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace."
Rumi
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
Jane Goodall
"Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved."
Cheri Huber
“That which you are seeking is causing you to seek.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
Claire of Assisi
"Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow."
bell hooks
“The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.”
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
“A society that does not examine itself is an unenlightened one.”
Ryokan
"How could we discuss
this and that
without knowing
the whole world is
reflected in a single pearl?”
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
“The next Buddha may be a sangha.”
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Love says: “I am everything.” Wisdom says: “I am nothing.” Between the two my life flows.”
Harriet Tubman
"If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more."
Audre Lorde
“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”
Rev. angel Kyodo williams
“Love and Justice are not two. Without inner change, there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.”
Ramana Maharshi
"Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world."
Zen Master Dōgen
“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”
Shunryu Suzuki
“Zen is not just personal practice, and our enlightenment is not just personal attainment. When we attain enlightenment, everything should be enlightened.”
