Keah Bews

Keah is a Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher, Meditation Teacher, Buddhist Practitioner, and Somatic Mind-Body Coach, based in Cape Town.

She offers Meditation Courses, Workshops, Retreats and individual Somatic Coaching, focusing on cultivating Mindful, Loving and Compassionate Awareness to support our Innate Wisdom and Capacity for Self-Discovery, Healing, Spiritual Growth and Well-Being.

Her work is rooted in Buddhist Psychology and Contemplative Practice, and Western Psychology and Neuroscience.

Having Deeply benefitted from these practices and principles in her own life, she works toward sharing what she can with others in a way that is both universal and accessible.

Journey & Trainings
Keah has been a Buddhist Practitioner and Meditator since 2011. In this time she has attended numerous meditation retreats and teachings abroad: In Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, Kopan Monastery in Nepal, and Tushita in Dharmashala, India. She completed her teachers training, in Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) with Eve Ekman and Alan Wallace in 2013. By 2016 she had transitioned out her career as a producer in the film industry to pursue her studies and practice full-time.

She spent the next 5 years living and studying at the FPMT Lama Tzong Khapa Institute in Italy, where she completed a 4.5 year in-depth residential study programme in Buddhist Psychology and Philosophy, including a 2 month silent self-led retreat. In 2022, she completed her Teachers Training in Mindful Self Compassion (MSC), developed by Kristin Neff & Chris Germer, which beautifully integrates the experiential wisdom and insights of Buddhist contemplative practice and meditation techniques with the latest developments in Western Psychology and Neuroscience.

She has just completed her certification as a Somatic Mind-Body Coach, and looks forward to starting to expand her offering into individual sessions in 2025. She is IFS (Internal Family Systems) Informed in her Teaching and Coaching work, and is currently continuing deepening her Coaching Training with the Hakomi Informed Somatic Coaching Program.