About Tai Sheridan

Wanderer · Teacher · Writer

For more than sixty years, I've been curious about what it means to be human and how we might live wisely. That question has taken me through anthropology, psychology, Zen, tai chi, yoga, writing, art, travel, teaching—and the much larger education of family, friendship, love, loss, aging, and ordinary life.

I studied anthropology at UC Berkeley during the extraordinary years of the late 1960s. Anthropology taught me to look closely at people and cultures without assuming that my own way of seeing the world was the only one. It taught me how to walk through the world with my eyes open.

Psychology led me inward. I studied communication and somatic psychology and spent years working with individuals, groups, and organizations. I became increasingly interested in the body—not simply as something we carry around, but as a source of awareness, intelligence, and connection.

Zen gave all of this a deeper ground. I trained with teachers who taught me the value of attention, silence, simplicity, discipline, and not making too much of myself or anything else. Tai chi, yoga, wilderness, painting, sailing, motorcycles, and wandering around in Volkswagen campers have taught me some of the same lessons in very different ways.

I've been fortunate to have remarkable teachers. But some of my greatest teachers have been ordinary life: raising four children, friendship, relationship, solitude, getting older, making mistakes, beginning again, and discovering that the questions don't disappear just because you've spent a lifetime asking them.

These days I write. My books wander through anthropology, spirituality, psychology, culture, humor, food, language, symbols, and the overlooked things sitting right in front of us. They are different ways of asking the same questions: Who are we? What matters? What is deepest? What brings us joy? What are we not noticing?

CWC--Centered · Warm · Clear—grew from the other side of this work. If the books are about exploring, CWC is about practicing: returning to the body, meeting life with warmth, and seeing more clearly what is actually here.

I don't have a final answer to what it means to live wisely.

I'm still curious.

What Readers Say

Readers have found Tai Sheridan’s books clear, useful, and quietly enduring.

★★★★★

“Simple, but powerful.”

“Wisdom stripped to its bare bones.”

“Heart-awakening. Written with simplicity and clarity.” 
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Selected reader comments from Amazon reviews.