About Jason Waterman

Jason is a long-time practitioner and teacher who aims to incorporate the Dharma into all aspects of his life, particularly his career as a social worker and psychotherapist.

He first gave meditation a shot in college as just another coping mechanism for increasingly untenable stress and anxiety. Only a few years later, he found himself living in Southeast Asia, practicing throughout the region, ranging from a five-month stay serving at a retreat center in Cambodia to attending silent meditation retreats lasting up to six weeks at a time. 

He completed his two-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program led by teachers Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield in 2021, certified by University of California Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and International Mindfulness Teachers Association. He continues to regularly go on silent retreats and other teacher trainings including Deepening Dharma and Dassanaya’s Approach to Nibanna with Ayya Dhammadipa.

Jason has taught in a variety of settings, including the DC Department of Corrections Central Detention Facility, Fortune 500 companies, activist organizations, women’s shelters, Montgomery County Hospice, Minds Incorporated, middle schools, The Lotus Room, children’s camps/after-school programs, Dassanaya Buddhist Community, Insight on the Inside, the Center for Mindful Living, and the Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC. He has co-led daylong retreats for 35+ people and facilitates a Dharma Therapists peer group.

He has promoted meditation and Buddhist teachings through his employment with A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment, Vagabond Temple, the Calm app, and his own organization, Seeds We Water. He has been influenced and inspired by teachers such as Buddhadasa Bikkhu, S.N. Goenka, Joseph Goldstein, Ajahn Chah, Bhante G, and more recently, Ayya Dhammadipa.

Jason is a licensed social worker in North Carolina and Maryland (LCSWA/LMSW) working as a psychotherapist. In addition to Dharma trainings, he has trained in the following: Certified Trauma Professional (CTP); Integrative Sex and Couples Certification Training; Mastering Internal Family Systems Therapy for Clinical Challenges; Integrative Polyvagal Theory for Trauma, Anxiety, Depression & Attachment; Compassionate Inquiry - Addiction, Anxiety, ADHD; Mindful Self-Compassion; Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Training; Men’s Tantra; Unwinding Anxiety; Hospice Volunteer Training; Intensive Trauma Treatment with Somatic Approaches.

Jason is a former NCAA Division One Academic All-American athlete, Fulbright Grant recipient, husband and cat-dad. In addition to his Dharma practice, he practices long distance running, ecstatic dance, and contact improvisation.