Miles brings a decade of intensive study (over 10,000 hours) in a range of mind-body disciplines to bear on his work as a meditation teacher and therapist. He leads meditation retreats and programs, coaches individuals one-on-one, is a core member of a team building a meditation app (Madrona Meditation), and is the co-founder of Dharma Gates (a non-profit that connects young people to meditation practice). 
Much of his training was with Buddhist teachers including two years of solitary retreat (under the guidance of B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. and Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D.), and three years at various monasteries and practice centers in the United States and Asia. Miles also completed a 1,600 hour Am.SAT Alexander Technique teacher training and is certified to teach Emory’s Cognitively Based Compassion Training course (CBCT), and Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Training course (CCT). 
Miles earned a Master’s of Applied Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Social Work at Columbia University. He also trained in MDMA assisted psychotherapy with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and ketamine assisted psychotherapy with the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute (PRATI) and was a study therapist at NYU’s Center for Psychedelic Medicine.
His work sits at the intersection of meditation, trauma, Buddhism, psychedelics, and positive psychology.