Kaveri Patel, DO spent most of her life running away from one thing towards the possibility of another.  Surely someone or something external would hold the key to true happiness, especially when she was plagued by difficult emotions during a dark period of post-partum depression and anxiety.

In 2007 she began the practice of mindfulness meditation which taught her how to sit still, how to stay with delight and distress without running away.   Through silent retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Kairos House of Prayer, Vallecitos, and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, she discovered an unconditional compassionate presence able to hold the weight of all her experiences without breaking.  Her mentors have included Tara Brach, Dori Langevin, Jackie Long, Brian Lesage, Erin Treat, Pamela Weiss, the DPP6 and Yoga Moms Sangha, patients, and family.

Kaveri lives with her family in northern California where she enjoys Family Medicine, parenting, yoga, writing, Qigong, singing, music, dancing, hiking, art process with colored pencils/oil pastels, and the outdoors.  She has worked for Sutter Health as a family physician for almost twenty years.  Inspired by Stanford's Compassion Cultivation Training, UC San Diego's Mindful Self-Compassion Training, James Baraz's Awakening Joy course, Peggy Tabor Millin's Centered Writing Practice, and Susy Keely's Opening What is Closed in art process, she has given mindfulness and compassion lectures,  facilitated writing groups, and daylong retreats on various themes.  Kaveri currently facilitates virtual meditation, reflective journaling, and art process workshops and peer support counseling to colleagues as part of wellbeing. She completed Spirit Rock's sixth Dedicated Practitioner's Program in 2019, a Dhamma mentorship program under the guidance of Pamela Weiss and Erin Treat in 2021, and is currently inspired by Soulmaking Dharma practice based on the teachings of the late Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee.

Like Izumi Shikibu, she yearns to know herself completely, 'no part left out', so she can explore full moon loving presence in the relational field with others.