SANCTUARY 

A CHARTER FOR COMPASSION

ETHOS

Meditation Sans Frontières is a nonprofit sanctuary devoted to the healing power of presence, the transmission of spiritual teachings, and the restoration of wholeness through Love. Born of decades of lived experience — in sobriety, profound trauma recovery, grief work, and mystical devotion — it offers a vast and evolving body of writings, reflections, healing techniques, and spiritual practices.

This work rises from silence — not the absence of sound, but the presence of something deeper. It lives in the liminal, where sorrow becomes prayer, and the unseen find a home. It walks with those in pain, in passage, in quiet becoming.

What is offered here is not doctrine, but balm — subtle, lived, ancestral… wisdom drawn from the dark waters and the sacred silence. A medicine of the soul. No belief system. No dogma. Only this: Love heals. And presence is the path. We are in a sacred hour — a thinning of veils, a return to the deep. This space is for that remembering.



“This sanctuary breathes through love, and is sustained by a few quiet hearts who choose to give. If this offering touched you, you can help keep the fire lit here:”

PROJECTS PROGRAMS & OFFERINGS

  • END OF LIFE VIGIL

    I sit with those nearing the veil—especially the forgotten, the unseen, the alone. This is quiet work. No fanfare. No agenda. Just presence. Just love. Your gift helps keep this offering alive—for those who may otherwise have no one to witness them home.

    “Presence is the last medicine. What remains is love.”

  • HEALING FOR HEALERS

    Supporting fellow healers, nurses, therapists, and caregivers by offering workshops or mentorship to prevent burnout and ensure their own well-being.

    “Even the light-bearers need a quiet flame of their own.”

  • MINDFULLNESS AND MEDITATION CLASSES

    Offering classes or workshops to teach mindfulness, meditation, and stress reduction techniques to individuals and organizations.

    “In the stillness, we remember what was never lost.”

  • TRAUMA RECOVERY SUPPORT

    Leading programs for individuals recovering from grief, abuse, or PTSD by integrating psychological, energetic, neurological, and cellular healing practices.

    We heal not in one layer, but in many—through breath, through nerve, through the soul’s quiet choosing to live again.”

  • COMMUNITY HEALING CIRCLES

    Organizing safe spaces where people can share their stories, release emotional burdens, and receive guidance through meditation, sound healing, or energy work.

    Healing begins where story is honored, silence is shared, and light is invited to move again.”

  • NATURE-BASED HEALING PROGRAMS

    Developing workshops that use nature as a healing force, such as forest bathing, herbal medicine education, or gardening therapy for mental well-being.

  • CONSCIOUS BUSINESS & ETHICAL LEADERSHIP CONSULTING

    Advising businesses and leaders on incorporating mindfulness, ethics, and holistic well-being into their workplaces and leadership styles.

  • ONLINE HEALING COMMUNITY AND RESOURCES

    Creating an accessible digital space where people can find guided meditations, self-healing exercises, or attend virtual healing circles.

  • HEALING JUSTICE AND SOCIAL ADVOCACY

    Using wisdom and compassion to address social inequalities, advocating for healing spaces in underserved communities, and supporting those impacted by systemic trauma.

    “In the shadows of injustice, we plant the seeds of healing—one breath, one soul, one sacred space at a time.”

  • THE SANCTUARY LIBRARY

    This evolving archive of writings, meditations, and spiritual reflections is offered freely to all. Each word is a companion on the journey—offered not to convince, but to comfort, awaken, and accompany. Your support allows this work to remain free of ads, paywalls, and distractions.

    These are not just teachings. They are offerings of breath, of stillness, of fire.

  • ON THE ORIGINS OF ADDICTION

    Addiction, for me, began not with the substance, but with the absence of love. It was a response to early rupture—a way to soothe the unbearable ache of feeling unseen. What looked like self-destruction was, at its heart, a longing to feel whole.

    “A longing not for escape, but for the warmth of being in the arms of the Beloved.”

  • THE AYURVEDA OF RELATIONSHIP

    This is what I teach:

    That love is not the absence of conflict, but the light that reveals it.

    That when fear and anger rise, we are not broken—we are being shown the places where love has yet to be fully embodied.

    And that with awareness, kindness, and sacred practice, we can walk through those darkened rooms together, hand in hand with what is infinite.

TRANSFORMATIONAL HEALING

  • ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY

    Techniques like Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) or Thought Field Therapy (TFT) that combine psychological interventions with energy work to address emotional issues.

  • SACRED MEDICINE HEALING

    Sacred medicine as any healing tools and practices that heal the traumas that cloak our divinity our true nature.

  • INTEGRATIVE ENERGY HEALING

    Combining multiple energetic healing modalities to address physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of health.

  • SHAMANIC HEALING

    Traditional healing practices involving energy work, journeying, and spiritual connection to restore balance and harmony.

  • SOUND HEALING

    Using vibrations from sound frequencies (such as Tibetan singing bowls, tuning forks, or vocal tones) to promote healing and relaxation.

  • ENERGY CLEARING

    Removing negative or stagnant energy from spaces, objects, or individuals to promote a sense of well-being and vitality.

  • BIO-ENERGY HEALING

    Using hands-on or hands-off techniques to balance and enhance the body's energy flow for healing purposes.

  • QUANTUM HEALING

    Applying principles of quantum physics to heal the body, often through intention, visualization, and energy manipulation.

TEA AND ZEN

PODCAST AND BLOG

Tea & Zen is a sanctuary of the heart — a space where silence, presence, and the deep currents of love are tended with care. For those unseen, for those in grief, for those awakening — these offerings are here as quiet companions on the path. Your support helps keep this sanctuary alive and open to all who are drawn to its light.

TENETS

  • Five stacked stones arranged on a weathered wooden surface against a gray wall.

    HONOR

  • Stacks of smooth, flat, oval stones in neutral colors on a white background.

    FAITH

  • Stack of five smooth, multicolored stones on a wooden surface

    COMPASSION

  • Stack of six smooth stones in various shades of gray stacked on a wooden surface against a light background.

    COURAGE

  • A neatly stacked tower of smooth, rounded stones of various sizes and colors against a gray background.

    INTEGRITY

  • Two decorative stones wrapped with beige elastic bands, placed on a wooden surface.

    HUMILITY

MANTRA

This sanctuary is devoted to awakening global compassion through advanced healing practices that cross borders and dissolve barriers. Blending emotional, somatic, psychological, and spiritual methods, we support each soul’s journey toward wholeness.

Accessible to all, our work lives in digital spaces, sacred circles, classrooms, prisons, and places of deep need. We offer teachings freely—anchored in love, reverence for life, and the truth that presence itself heals.

Here, healing becomes more than personal. It becomes a shared path toward peace, dignity, and communion—with one another and with the Divine.

In Illuminating the inherent suffering and challenges woven into sentient existence, and through intentional practices, guide towards a transformative journey of relinquishing that suffering to the profound and pervasive force of love that resides within each being.

The dissemination of wisdom offered here is not derived solely from our principal Nigel Lott’s research and study but, more significantly, from personal experience—a journey marked by his own complex, profound forms of systematic trauma and abuse and its subsequent healing that continues today.Nigel Lott.

Whatever is held most sacred in our heart once, is forever held there, once sacred forever sacred, master that you are of your own soul.” Nigel Lott

TEACHING CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS MANAGEMENT

The selection and implementation of the most appropriate behavioral crisis intervention tactics, in responding to the needs of an individual or group in order to relieve suffering from the impact of a traumatic event.

Specifically, it is designed to help mitigate any future potential post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms by the use of multiple components that can be used before, during, and after a crisis, accelerate the recovery process, and assess the need for additional or alternative services.

MAPPING THE RESPONSE OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM TO TRAUMA

From the original energy of experience that embeds itself within the cellular body, to the deep recesses of the sympathetic nervous system of flight or fight.

The various psychological, emotional, somatic diseases, and dysfunction that are created by the presence of these complex forms of energy and the path to healing, and recovery, of surrender and transcendence.

TESTIMONIALS

  • Nigel is part of that band of spiritual warriors who have found the courage to defeat the darkness of their souls. Awakening and rising from the depths of their deepest fears, like a Phoenix rising from the ashes. Reborn with a wisdom and strength that creates a light that shines bright enough to help, encourage and inspire others out of their darkness.”

  • Nigel offers a journey, a chronicle of healing that has taken tremendous courage, vulnerability, strength, intelligence, steadfast willingness, and a unwavering relationship with the belief that even in our darkest hour, the innate power of love conquers all -

  • “Nigel is an example of far-reaching change. His transformation and knowledge come out of his original experience and the equanimity that he now exhibits. Among all the people that I have known, Nigel has traveled the furthest. He has a way of framing internally as his language implies, and defines the terms of the larger mechanism that governs everyone’s lives, every intelligence, and the larger growing understanding and mapping of what the universe is creating.”

  • Nigel Lott has a quality that makes him both memorable and engenders respect. He is among the people I have met who is the easiest to remember, and to feel connected to. He has a vivid personality that stays with those who meet him. He has a remarkable voice that conveys extraordinary personal qualities and among those qualities, and why he is so memorable he has a lot of heart. He has moved through lengthy, complex levels of profound suffering and is seen to continually re-invent new resources and new ways to make choices in his healing process. He has a lot of creativity, a lot of endurance and strength, and yes a tremendous heart to him."

CONNECT

Email

nigel@teaandzen.org

 

The whole of planet Earth is a sacred site. All people are the chosen people, and the purpose of our lives is a spiritual one.

May we care for each other, and for the Earth, for everything relates to everything else.

Feeling this oneness, may we radiate the light of love and kindness that all may live in unity and peace."

~ Radha Sahar.

Phone
+1 (206) 769-6725