Meet Meditation Expert
Sam Chin
25 Years of Experience
Sam’s dad taught her to meditate when she was 4 years old. However, her teacher training may have started even earlier when she sat with her dad while he taught meditation classes in their living room. Since then she’s turned to meditation for stress management, mind-body balance, and self-discovery – anywhere from the comfort of her living room in Boston to the busy public transportation of San Francisco to the break rooms of her jobs now in Los Angeles.
Dancer Turned Meditation Teacher
Sam’s initial immersion into kinesiology and dance at San Francisco State University clarified her passion for helping others understand and heal their bodies. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance in 2016 from SFSU.
Her dance background later led to Sam's signing with the sport and fitness division of Wilhelmina Models in 2019.
Navigating the Waves of Life
By the time Sam was 12-years-old, she had lived in 3 cities, moving from coast to coast twice. Such radical change at a young age can often create lifelong stress.
Each day on the drive to school, Sam would meditate. During these formative years, meditation helped maintain her balance.
Bullying that resulted from her being different, making new friends, increased schoolwork, and the ongoing journey of self-discovery became less daunting and more manageable. Deep inside, Sam knew who she was, so she was able to come out of those challenging years even stronger.
In college, Sam was a full time student and worked 2-3 jobs at the same time. She’d meditate on the San Francisco Muni – with other passengers playing music, talking on the phone, rustling bags of recycling collections – even in Ubers, in the school library, and in the hallways outside her classes. Turning Within has always been an easy tool for her to use to find centeredness and release stress.
Change is inevitable. Navigating the many ups and downs of those waves of change has been much easier to manage with this Turning Within Meditation tool that Sam learned when she was 4 years old.
When it clicked…
For many years, when discussing meditation, Sam was told comments like these:
“Meditation is just so hard”, “I can never clear my mind or get myself to focus or sit still”, or “I’m bad at meditation, I wish I could do it”.
Hearing those comments actually excited her because she was able to give an easy solution – the technique she’s practiced for as long as she can remember, Turning Within meditation.
Being able to say, “ Meditation can be easy , I never have to clear my mind, sit still, force, focus, or do breath work, I can just let my mind wander, and there is no skill level to meditation” showed Sam that she had something really valuable to offer especially to those who felt defeated by the idea of meditation.
MORE THAN JUST
STRESS MANAGEMENT?
For Sam, meditation is essential for her self-discovery journey because to know herself is to accept and love herself.
Turning within consistently for much of her life has given her a sense of stability that no matter where she is in her life journey, she has the will power and strength to move forward alongside unpredictable and sometimes unpleasant waves in life.
These feelings of self-knowingness, self-acceptance, confidence during uncertainty and discomfort, moving through stress with grace and patience are all things that Sam wants to help others find for themselves.
This tool not only help us with our relationship with ourselves, but it directly influences our experience of the world around us.
Life is meant to be well lived in, so what better place to start than with how our mind experiences itself –
it's the very filter of our lives.
Meet the Founder
Kelvin Chin
Kelvin learned to meditate at age 19, and has been teaching meditation in living rooms, schools, and businesses worldwide — and now via videoconference, phone, Zoom, and webinars — for over 50 years.
Over 50 Years of Teaching Experience
A "Teacher of Teachers"
Kelvin is a “teacher of teachers” — teachers of other meditation techniques from around the world seek his guidance on meditation. Why? Because many of their teachers have died, and few teachers in the world have as much experience both 1) with teaching others how to meditate, and 2) with their own personal experiences of “turning within,” with truly Knowing Oneself.
Pioneer in the First Medical Studies on Meditation
Kelvin was a test subject in the first medical studies on meditation in the U.S. — conducted by Boston cardiologist Herbert Benson, MD in 1971 (published in Scientific American, 1972).
Kelvin also taught the first meditation classes at West Point Military Academy, and in the U.S. Army on the DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) in Korea, and at Raytheon, AIA International, 1-800-DENTIST, Dartmouth College and Yale University.
Has Taught 1000's Worldwide
Kelvin has taught people from age 4 to 94 — professional athletes, retirees, teachers, students from elementary school to postdocs, construction workers, clergy, and CEOs. He has taught 1,000’s of people this easy-to-learn, non-religious technique of naturally Turning Within — or “learning how to let go.” He often simply calls it “learning how to turn on the opposite switch to the Fight or Flight response.”
He has taught beginners who have never meditated before, as well as experienced meditators who have practiced every other kind of meditation technique in the world.
Kelvin has taught Buddhist monks to use his technique. They continue to use their Buddhist meditation. But, they say they get more out of their meditations after practicing Kelvin’s technique. So, there is no conflict with other techniques. He has also taught clergy from all religions — priests, nuns, rabbis, ministers — as well as Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus, and atheists.
Kelvin lives in Los Angeles, California, but travels and teaches both private sessions and group classes worldwide — in Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas — via Videoconference, Phone, and In-person.
Ivy League Graduate
Kelvin is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Yale University, and Boston College Law School. Click on the schools for interviews with Kelvin in their alumni magazines.