ABOUT ME

 

Tanya Touchstone hails from Southeast Texas where she earned her degree in Communication. She currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee. 

 

Tanya's early career involved promotion, marketing, talent scouting, and management of rock and roll acts at a time when "women didn't do those things." She's got some stories! She also hopes she blazed a few trails for young women following behind her.

After doing this for a time (and having a lot of fun in the process), she moved on to a commercial building trade magazine in Houston, Texas, where she created advertising for clients.

Through a chain of events, she moved from advertising to the legal industry, and enjoyed working in various firms all over the United States. Upon moving to Nashville, she found herself once again working in the music industry, only this time in the legal area. She's got more stories! Today she enjoys working in the more mainstream areas of the legal profession.

Tanya founded an Interspiritual Mindfulness Meditation Group, A Circle of Friends, leading and facilitating for over 12 years. Tanya has written many articles about applying Mindfulness to everyday life, and is a frequent media guest, including several appearances on million+ bestselling author Dick Sutphen's Contact Talk Radio show, discussing Dream Symbology, Mindfulness, and Meditation. In addition, Tanya has taught and led Mindfulness Meditation at domestic violence shelters, helping victimized women experience the beauty and healing of silence.

An avid student of Native American culture and spirituality, she has been involved in several Native American organizations and was honored with the coveted Preservation Award for her marketing and promotion assistance for Native causes. Past recipients have included a state senator, a state representative, and several state archaeologists. Tanya has also volunteered her time in a promotion and marketing capacity to a Native American land trust group, helping to preserve and protect the ancient and sacred places.

During this time, Zen, Native America, and Music gently collided when Tanya and her meditation group, A Circle of Friends, came to the aid of a little boy with cancer, putting together the very first Multicultural Songwriter Round in Nashville, Tennessee, and creating a beautiful blend of Native American Musicians with Country Music Artists. Tanya took inspiration from an old Page/Plant "No Quarter" documentary, coupled with long ago mentoring advice from Roger Glover of Deep Purple, who predicted she would be doing this type of work many years before it occurred. Glover was right, it was beautiful, and the little boy who was expected to die is still here. Everything in our lives is leading somewhere – and this was one of those fantastic instances of a beautiful merging of life experiences.

Tanya next became involved with the Lost Boys of Sudan, joining with others at her firm to help them form a foundation to support their community needs, as well as volunteering her marketing skills for their cultural events and conferences.

​In 2015, Tanya published her first book, "The Gifts of Cancer, A Meditation on Hope," telling the story of her own journey with cancer, and how to use Mindfulness, Meditation, Native American teachings, and Zen practice as stepping stones through the process of dis-ease.

Tanya's journey, interests, and enthusiasm for life and living continue on.

Life is an honor, as well as a whole lot of fun.