Dr. Ming Way is the cofounder of SEE Within and the creator of SEE Meditation. She teaches and writes about life and change, and the return to inner steadiness when our sense of who we are is shaken. At the heart of her work is a simple question: when life changes, what remains true within you?

Her inquiry began in rural China, where early life taught her how deeply culture, gender roles, and social expectations can shape a person before they can see their own nature and truth. After immigrating to the United States, she learned to look inward and encountered an untended inner landscape — chronic anxiety, dissociation, shame, fear, self-doubt, and the quiet conviction of not belonging anywhere.

She then devoted nearly two decades to self-healing through therapy, meditation, Zen, qigong, breathwork, and the natural healing traditions of East and West.

What she found was this: many practices can ease an anxious mind, soften emotion, or help the body rest. But whenever the world touches the deeper sense of who we are, something more intimate is shaken. And that shaking often intensifies when the world changes how it sees us, names us, and what it wants from us. When that happens, what is needed is not relief alone, but a return inward to the root, to what remains unshaken.

She moved through these passages herself: leaving China for the United States, the end of a marriage, a career change from college faculty to author, from author to entrepreneur, menopause, aging, and long seasons of somatic anxiety that lingered in the body.

What sustained her was the practice of turning toward the inner landscape: returning to inner ground, staying close to what remained true, and trusting the natural wisdom within to find the way.

Dr. Ming Way holds a PhD in East Asian Studies and is trained as a cultural anthropologist, with deep roots in Asian philosophy and contemplative tradition. Her academic work examines how culture and society shape perception, reality, and identity, and how the external narratives around us become the inner story of who we are. This foundation deepened her understanding of why change can feel existential. When outer structures shift, the inner narrative reorganizes.

From this meeting of scholarship, lived experience, and years of helping others, SEE Meditation emerged. Grounded in mindfulness and enriched by qigong, somatic awareness, compassion practice, and the psychology of identity and change, SEE Meditation is both integrative and intimate. It offers a steady companion for a journey that can feel deeply disorienting and unexpectedly lonely.

Dr. Ming Way is also the author of the allegorical trilogy Born Rich, Learn Poor, a literary exploration of truth and identity in a world of disconnection.

She holds deep gratitude for the teachers and thinkers who shaped her path, including Thich Nhat Hanh, Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Dr. Gabor Maté, Alan Watts, D. T. Suzuki, Eckhart Tolle, Joyce Curnow, Dr. Itai Ivtzan, Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming, Sifu Travis Alschbach, and others whose work bridges contemplation, psychology, and culture.

Away from her academic and contemplative work, she is a gardener, a decent chef, a tea maker, and a calligrapher, and she shares her days with her Zen cat, Bodhi.