Inspiration & Mission

I am an English Language Instructor for Livemocha, the world’s largest online language learning community with more than 11 million members and growing. Livemocha’s coaching program launched in April 2011, and since then I’ve been giving online private instruction sessions to people living all over the world. 

It’s amazing that our technology has reached the point where we are able to have live video conversations via the internet, opening the walls of the virtual classroom to the entire planet. I am grateful to have access to this technology because it has opened up a whole new dimension for online learning and human connection across borders.    

I have heard a lot of students say that they are timid to speak English, or afraid to speak with natives because they feel their English is not good enough. These students who have courageously shared their vulnerability with me, have inspired me to write this blog as a motivational guide for my students in their process of learning English. It may also be valuable for anyone who is learning another language. 

In this blog I write about some universal issues in learning languages and some interesting things about the English language and the American culture. You will find personal development topics and life perceptions interwoven here in order to motivate students to know themselves better, take action toward their goals and build confidence in their abilities.  

My life philosophy has a lot to do with the concept of fluidity and flowing through life, as I learned from my teacher, don Américo Yábar, in the Andes Mountains of Peru as well as my studies in Oriental medicine. There is a certain flow of the universe, and when we are aligned with it, we move effortlessly through life. When we get caught up in the struggle of resisting or fighting against the current, life is difficult. But as soon as we let go and align ourselves life begins to flow again. I strive to align myself with the flow to optimize my life experience and it is my intent to help my students get into the flow with their English studies and life outlook. 

My private instruction sessions are student-directed and have the element of fluidity. I use a spontaneous approach to the topics of conversation and practice in order to be in alignment with what is coming up for each student at any moment. Everyone is working on certain things in their work and personal life, and basing our topics of conversation on those things allows the session to be relevant for each student. And so this blog is entitled, Flowing in English.  


Meredith Miller
English Language Coach

Livemocha 

Personal Development Coach
Metamorphosis of Being