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 and Kairos House of Prayer, 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, Ruth King, Tempel Smith, the Aloka Vihara bhikkunis, 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, hiking, and the outdoors.  She has worked for Palo Alto Medical Foundation 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,  and Peggy Tabor Millin's Centered Writing Practice, she has given mindfulness and compassion lectures,  facilitated writing groups, created a six week meditation and writing class to help meet challenges, hold fear, deepen intimacy with life, and led women's daylongs on the voice of kindness, healing the maternal line, and most recently self-compassion: no parts left out. Kaveri currently facilitates virtual meditation and writing classes, offers mindfulness consults, 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.

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.