More About Leslie Quigless

I’m an educator by training and an artist  —  and a teacher — by nature.

For over two decades, I taught adolescents and adults in New York, Brazil, and Atlanta — work that began with master’s degrees from NYU and Harvard and evolved into a lifelong devotion to how human beings learn, unfold, and awaken.

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The roots of my work

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My spiritual education has spanned my entire adulthood.

The discipline of Vipassana Meditation shaped my capacity to stay with sensation — particularly through S. N. Goenka’s profound emphasis on direct experience.

Byron Katie’s “The Work” taught me the clarity of inquiry.

Kyle Cease’s teachings reminded me I could trust the transformation I could feel happening in me. 

And through Carolyn Elliott and Regena Thomashauer, I entered the advanced study of pleasure as a spiritual art.

Each of these threads has woven itself into what is now Inquiry Meditation — a living technology of reunion between consciousness and the body.

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(More about my teachers here.)

Other expressions of my devotion

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I’m also the co-creatrix and moderator of HEAT, a shadow-play group game that invites people to transmute their pain by exploring its edges with so much curiosity and compassion.

And I’m a lifelong storyteller — a former journalism major at UNC-Chapel Hill (Tar Heels forever!) whose love of language eventually led me back to creative writing and a recently released novel.

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My orientation

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My orientation is that of an artist.

For me, healing is an art form — an encounter with beauty, quality, and the living Mystery.

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Each Inquiry Meditation session is a work of art we co-create—
a radiant jewel of presence, tenderness, and truth.

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Together, we listen.

We make a space of welcome for the Mystery.

And then we become still enough to receive its grace.