Meditation Guide
Cori Barker
Cori Barker brings together the curiosity of an engineer, the sensitivity of a healer, and the joy of a devoted meditation practitioner. His first career as an electrical engineer trained him to think with precision and clarity — skills he still uses today in software development, systems thinking, and his grounded approach to teaching meditation. Yet, the stresses of the corporate world led him to seek a more balanced and meaningful path. In 2014, he left engineering to study massage therapy, beginning a new life centered on well-being, embodiment, and mindful awareness.
There has always been a sense of something, though; while “maturity” took its toll, I never lost the memory of a few rare occasions where, as a child, I was . . . just happy. Then one day, thanks to Huston Smith’s kind and clear description of the Buddha, and other religious figures, in his book The World’s Religions, English translations of the Suttas, I found myself catapulted into this meditation party. The joy was enough to send me searching for what would eventually lead me to simply Google “who teaches from the original suttas” and then to the fine works of Mr. Doug Kraft.