Justin F. Miles, MA, LCPC-S, LGAD-S began practicing Zen meditation in 1991 and has been a practitioner and teacher of the Shambhala Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhist tradition for the last 20 years. Additionally, he has studied and practiced with a community of Lakota practitioners since 1998 and is also a student of Contemplative Christianity and Taoism. His primary interest is the organization, mobilization, education and upliftment of Black people brought about through the direct experience of their nature, culture and the activity of their everyday lives. To help to bring this about, Justin created the world’s first Afrikan Centered and Buddhist inspired practice liturgy titled “The Sadhana of Awakened Melanin”, designed to center Black people around their inner, outer and secret Black Power. Justin facilitates meditation retreats and teaches courses on Buddhism and meditation throughout the Washington DC and Baltimore area at colleges and community organizations, is the creator and facilitator of the Black Power Meditation Group and teaches meditation monthly to patients at the University of Maryland’s Department of Psychiatry and inmates at Maryland’s Harford County Jail. In his spare time he works in private practice as a psychotherapist, is a Baltimore City Master Gardener, writes about the intersections of non duality, Hiphop culture and Contemplative studies and produces dope Hiphop music under the name J-Who? Worldwise.
