Welcome

Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Beth Hinnen spent her early years trailing after four older brothers learning how to ski, ride a bike, drive a stick-shift, and be the runner in the game of "pickle." Athleticism was a core part of her upbringing. Even so, her mother inspired her love of reading, which ignited a desire to travel the world. So at age 17, she moved to Vail, Colorado only to find out that living in a ski town is not the same as vacationing in one. With a renewed sense of self-reliance and preservation, Beth earned an undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering, followed by a Masters of Science in Management from The Georgia Institute of Technology.

Hired by The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Beth rose through the ranks to Vice President, providing loans to utilities and independent power producers, She learned cold calling, financial modeling, management of bosses, peers and analysts, and that, in the end, money certainly can buy substitutes for happiness, but never happiness itself.

With that realization, Beth left the corporate world, wrote fiction, and ultimately discovered Yoga. Starting in 2001 and over the next 8 years, she earned over 1,000 hours of training in beginner, intermediate, and advanced Hatha Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Structural Yoga Therapy, Restorative Yoga, and Raja Yoga, or Yogic philosophy. She in turn taught Raja Yoga to incoming teacher trainees from 2005-2008, and then found a Soto Zen teacher and turned her attention to Buddhism.

From 2008 to 2019, Beth studied Zen, completing a year of monastic training, after which she left that tradition and found Vipassana meditation, which provided a more secular foundation for her to continue her exploration of Buddhism. In January 2023, Beth completed a 2-year certification to teach meditation and mindfulness in the the tradition of Insight Meditation as developed by Jack Kornfield.

Currently, Beth hosts two meditation Meetup groups, Meditation-at-Mayu and Insight Denver. As a co-founder of Insight Denver, she serves as Board Chair and as administrator for the Teachers Collective. You can find her there most Sunday nights, if not teaching then enjoying hearing others speak and connecting with community.