Tools and Practices
For Spiritual Explorers


Alexander Smith
Mindfulness Teacher and Artist


Cashmere lover, watercolour artist,
pianist, social worker, podcast host and mindfulness teacher
encouraging gentle steps along the “spiritual” path.


Discover Your Spiritual Rhythm

Winter Wise Circles

Meet Your
Field Guide & Mentor

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Alexander Smith, MSW, LCSW
Mindfulness Maestro: Teacher & Artist
HIV-Positive Since 2003
Actively Sober/Recovery Since 2015

COME AS YOU ARE
For seekers, the tender hearts and quiet rebels. This is your invitation to slow down, listen inward and begin again.

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Make Sit Happen:
21-Day Meditation
Course Adventure

Join me for a guided meditation adventure that blends stillness, mindful movement and creative practice. Over 21 days, you’ll shape a rhythm that’s simple, sustainable, and soulful. Daily guidance, live calls and community support. Spring and Autumn 2026.

Your life is the perfect
place to begin.

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Explore Meditation and Seasonal Wise Circles with Alexander Smith. Mindfulness teacher, watercolorist, pianist, and guide for the spiritual path.

According to chatGPT,
this is how I do “what I do” for a living
(and stay sober)!

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  • A man with glasses and headphones sitting on a bus, looking at the camera. Outside the window, trees and buildings are visible.
  • Open sketchbook with watercolor paintings of abstract shapes in various colors, and a set of paintbrushes in a brown case.
  • A man wearing glasses, a colorful bandana, and headphones takes a selfie in front of a mural of a bird with a yellow beak and pink markings, on a white wall.
  • A close-up of a person wearing glasses, headphones, and a scarf, sitting on a bus. Overlaid text describes a podcast about mindfulness, spirituality, art, queerness, HIV advocacy, and helping people practice mindfulness through various online platforms.
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Viral Mindfulness The Podcast
Reviews & Testimonials
28,055+ Downloads
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    This is how I feel when I listen to Alexander 🩵 If you need to be moved out of a funk and onto a ribbon of pure joy, stop everything and listen to this muse! You will arrive in a loftier place of peace, serenity, creativity, AND excitement! Live a little more expansively and hop on board. Love you! 🥰

    COMING HOME

    ‘oreillygirl’ Apple Podcasts

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    Alexander's podcast is one of my very favorites. His voice is soothing. I'm able to relax and feel like I'm all cozied up by a fire with a good book when I listen. I think he's doing beautiful work in the world whether it's with his music, his thoughts and words, or his inspired watercolors. Definitely worth a listen if you like the idea of slowing everything down and snuggling in for some much needed story-time.

    ONE OF MY FAVORITES

    ‘playwright88’

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    Alexander's podcast is a soft place to reflect and regroup in this much harried world. He brings a wealth of experience, insight, and awareness to his work and invites his listeners to do the same with their unique selves.

    A SOFT PLACE

    ‘Ogunche’ Apple Podcasts

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    Alexander is my favorite. He always gets to the heart of what's important but with a sense of humor. Grateful for him in my life.

    A BREATH OF FRESH AIR

    ‘summermurd’ Apple Podcasts

  • Close-up of a tree log cross-section showing the growth rings and a yellowish fungal or mold growth around the ring edge.

    Alexander is such a compassionate, wise voice/thinker in this time of turbulent upheaval. He has a way of shedding light on various issues through a different lens & causes reflective thinking to inplement change in accessible ways.

    A VOICE OF CALM INTROSPECTION TO MINDFULLY PRACTICE

    ‘Smitty Clan’ Apple Podcasts

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    Alexander is a breath of fresh air! He's doing the work and teaching from it. Be inspired to use mindfulness as intervention to strengthen your mental health.

    A MUSE OF CREATIVITY & SPIRITUALITY

    ‘DavidBleu’ Apple Podcasts

Individual Sessions
With Alexander

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Investment $210 Per Session/Hourly
$740 Pre Paid 4 Sessions ($185 Hourly)

Weekly Sessions, 60 minutes Meet on ZOOM, phone, or FaceTime. Free Access to my DIY Guided Meditation Starter Kit. First access to join, or create, a weekly Wise Circle (like group therapy, but, oh, so much better). Get started now with intake process →

WORK WITH ME

ENROLLMENT OPENS SOON!
Autumn Wise Circle (October 28 - November 25)
Tuesdays, 9AM-10:30AM PT / NOON-1:30PM ET

We’ll study the spiritual arts—meditation, writing practice, creativity, watercolours, music, poetry, grief, compassion, sobriety and recovery. The academy is an online meeting place for workshops, courses, group therapy, wise circles, individual therapy, live events and piano recitals.

The Art Of Silence:
A Virtual Weekend Retreat
Online Together: Let’s Explore Noble Silence!

DETAILS & DATES COMING SOON! We’ll start on a Thursday at sundown and finish on Sunday at sundown. Opening and closing sessions (60 minutes) on ZOOM. LIVE pop-up silent meditations on ZOOM throughout the weekend. $99/tuition + Free access to my Guided Meditation Starter Kit.

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The Podcast

I love podcasting! It’s the perfect environment to share stories with you. Sometimes I’ll read poems and share an audio message from Jude or Harvey Rose. It’s not uncommon for me to drop audio of me playing music from my piano. Whenever I record a new guided meditation I’ll publish it on the podcast feed as a stand-alone episode called, ‘Make Sit Happen.’ Tune in wherever you get your podcasts. If you haven’t already, please rate, review and subscribe. It’s helpful if you write a quick review or testimonial.

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The
Guided Meditation
Starter Kit

Meditation doesn’t have to be such hard work. In fact, with a field guide you trust (hopefully that’s me) and different audio tracks to choose from, your time meditating can focus on curiosity and exploration. Don’t forget to be gentle, gentle with yourself.

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ROMANCE WITH RAINWATER


Add To Your Art Collection

Prints & Originals Available To Own

Don’t miss this year’s illustrious rainwater paintings. Yes, I collect raindrops—boil, purify and sift them (with love) to blanket your custom piece drenched in valuable Southern California rainwater. This exhibit features two original pieces with raindrops from Kauai (thank you Christine!).

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“The teaching is merely a vehicle to describe the truth. Don’t mistake it for the truth itself. A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. The finger is needed to know where to look for the moon, but if you mistake the finger for the moon itself, you will never know the real moon.”

Thich Naht Hanh

FAQs

  • As a trained therapist I wrestle with the words therapy and coaching. My professional assistance feels soul-centered, deeply rooted in developing skills to listen and attend to your inner world. I love the idea that our work, together, could be called therapeutic-mentoring.

    It’s said, therapists help you with the past, and coaches help you build the future.

    I’m passionate about teaching you to embrace your life as it is today. “Wanting always interrupts being” (yung pueblo).

    I have limited spots available and put all interested persons through a waitlist process.

    Add your name to the waitlist.

  • Explore available prints and originals. I’d be honored to join your collection of art!

  • September 2025
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  • It’s a place for us to study the spiritual arts. In community, online.

    Viral Mindfulness Academy is my online passion project. I plan to spend my 50’s teaching and working with individuals and small groups (wise circles).

    Some events will eventually be offered in person.

    I’m currently teaching seasonal Wise Circles and Sober 90 with The Luckiest Club.

    I’m working on a new offering: “Online At-Home Weekend Silent Retreat.” I’m interested in helping people cultivate periods of silence or “noble silence” over a weekend. We’ll start and finish together on Zoom, I’ll offer meditation throughout the weekend, and resources to assist your exploration with stillness. Details coming soon!

    Add your name to the waitlist and offer feedback now.

  • This has many hues and layers.

    Blue is my favorite color.

    There’s an infamous family photo of the original SMITHS with Liz, Cardell and their five children in mid-1980’s Utah-family-portrait-drag. I’m the only blue item in the entire photo, including the Autumn backdrop.

    In a radical act of claiming my true queer and creative identity, I started The House Of Blue.

    More details coming soon.

  • Harvey is my Goddess-Daughter. She’s the daughter of John Harvey Cates & Kenny Harvey Frisby.

    More details coming soon.

    My instagram has recent posts highlighting my Spring with Harvey and family.

Life’s A Beach Unless I’m Chasing National Parks!

Alexander Smith