Nicoya Helm (Assistant)
Nicoya Helm is a certified Unified Mindfulness Pathways coach and Mental Health First Aid Instructor. She began meditating in 1999 as part of recovery from a serious health challenge; now she offers mindfulness and mental health education to help others look deeper, dream bigger, and live better. Since 2018, she’s served as a lead instructor for multiple cohorts of Unified Mindfulness’s Pathways coach training program, a support instructor for Jansusz Wellin’s Progress of Shinsight course, and an associate teacher at Temple Buddhist Center of Kansas City. She is a regular facilitator at the University of Kansas Medical Center’s Turning Point program for people with terminal or chronic illness and their caregivers. She has studied in the Plum Village tradition, Insight meditation, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Her root teacher is Shinzen Young, and she currently studies with Michael Taft and Dr.Tucker Peck. When not teaching, she enjoys making things, playing outside, and talking to strangers.