Meet Charlotte

Charlotte Nguyễn is a spiritual & transformational coach, writer, speaker and the pint-sized daughter of Vietnamese refugees.

Her Story

Coming from a Southeast Asian background, spirituality and mysticism have always been part of Charlotte's experience; but like the children of many immigrant families, survival was the guiding force that shaped her early years.

After the death of her first love in 2007, she began a journey to learn how to be free from suffering. Spiritual practice, art and activism each played a role and she found where she thrives best - at the intersections of love, justice and healing.

In 2017, she became the founder of Get Free! where she mentors BIPOC, women and LGBTQ folks as a spiritual and transformational Coach, helping them heal from oppression and cultivate truly liberated lives. Since then, she has worked with thousands of people in the field of personal development, helping them cultivate lives full of trust, confidence, intimacy, connection, mindfulness and compassion with themselves and all their relations.

The work of emotional mastery is a path she devotes herself and her life to everyday. She has a daily practice of meditation, a space where she connects with her body and soul in mindfulness. She is blessed to serve and share these practices which have so profoundly changed her life.

Her Background

Charlotte Nguyen has over 10 years of experience working in social change communities throughout Los Angeles, Washington DC, and the Bay Area including Amnesty International USA, United Way of Greater Los Angeles, DC Rape Crisis Center, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNWRA).

She has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the California State University of Fullerton Graduate School of Nursing and is a graduate of the Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Center’s Advanced Practitioners Program. She has trained as a Youth Mindfulness Educator through Mindful Schools and is certified in Mental Health First Aid ™. In 2020, she completed her training in Trauma Response & Crisis Care for Movement Healers at The School for Global Citizenry.

Charlotte has been certified as a curriculum designer and Certified Professional in Training Management (CPTM). She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Peace & Conflict Resolution with a minor in Philosophy & Religion from the American University. However, she credits most of her intellectual growth to friends and family members who have shared their experiences with her.

Charlotte's work in spirituality and politics has appeared in Yoga Journal, Buzzfeed, Smithsonian Magazine and Voyage Magazine. She now teaches retreats, workshops and classes for visionaries and change makers around the world and in the greater Los Angeles area.

Lineage

The mindfulness and embodiment practices shared by Charlotte come from her training and practice with the Plum Village Community for Engaged Buddhism, whose lineage connects back to Zen Buddhist Master Thích Nhất Hạnh, the founder of the Engaged Buddhism movement. In 2023, she received the “Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings” at Deer Park Monastery and was given the dharma name “Reverent Lotus of the Source.” She took her Refuge Vows in 2017 and Bodhisattva Vows in 2018 at the Garchen Buddhist Institute, dedicating her life and practice to the happiness, protection and well-being of all life on the planet. She also works within a Theravada Buddhist framework, which comes through Southeast Asia via Vietnamese, Thai and Burmese traditions. These are techniques and forms of wisdom that were shared by the Buddha almost 2,600 years ago in South Asia.

She is a practitioner of Cha Dao "The Way of Tea,” a practice that comes from ancient Chinese Daoist lineage. She is dedicated to sharing the medicine of the Leaf through Tea Ceremony in the tradition of The Global Tea Hut, as taught by Wu De in Taiwan.

She has been mentored by and completed trainings with dharma teachers, Spring Washam, Lama Rod Owens, Sebene Selassie, Venerable Bhikkhu Analayo (dharma), as well as Guy Armstrong, Gil Fronsdal, Phillip Moffitt, Susie Harrington, Brian Lesage, Dawn Scott, and Ying Chen (mindfulness meditation), Lily Huang (somatic healing), Ev’Yan Whitney (sacred sexuality), Shereen Sun (sacred entrepreneurship), Luna Love (feminine leadership), Brenden Durrell (plant medicine), Jamé Ellis (feminine embodiment) and Rachael Maddox (trauma resolution), and Gigi Azmy (conscious relationship coach).

Born and raised in Los Angeles, her life and spiritual practice have been deeply influenced by Black liberation theology, as well as Mexican, Islamic, Jewish, Indigenous First Nations and African diasporic spiritual traditions, to which she is forever grateful.