Clifford Carter is the CEO and Founder of Inner Warrior Spirit, a non-profit organization dedicated to the healing process through mindfulness meditation. He has practiced meditation for more than thirty years. He studied in the traditions of Zen at many centers including Windhorse Zen Community, Asheville, NC, and Atlanta Soto Zen Center. He's also studied meditation at Nyingma Institute, Berkley, California and Ratna Ling Retreat Center in Northern California under Tarthang Tulku, Rimpoche, Nichiren Buddhism in Dallas, TX, as well as a continued practice in Bermuda. Clifford is an experienced SN Goenka Vipassana Meditation practitioner. He practiced with and ordained as a Theravada Buddhist Monk with Bhante Vimalaramsi at Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center, Annapolis, MO. Clifford also spent time at Sravasti Abbey with Ven. Thubten Chodren. He studied Vipassana with Bhante Sathi, a respected Sri Lankan Monk. Clifford also studied Vipassana with Suman Jyoty, a Buddhist Monk in India. He spent one month teaching Vipassana meditation at Mahabodhi residential school, Tuichawng, India. He's taught Vipassana meditation since 2005, when he first started at the Unitarian Church in Alton, IL. Clifford's approach to meditation is non-secular, while his background stems from an extensive Buddhist experiential lineage. He believes that understanding how the mind processes information and the ease at which we are able to let go, becomes the key to our own personal awakening. This awakening then gives one the ability to see the world through not only the lens we've been given and then choose, but through all lenses - thus opening infinite possibilities.
