Das Chapin has been studying, practicing, and teaching mindfulness in many forms over the last thirty years. In the eighties he studied and practiced the art of "being" as in the ontological distinctions of being human. In the nineties he began teaching yoga and meditation, eventually helping to start an Ashram in north western Maine. He supervised the ashram's outreach centers where he practiced the healing science of Ayurveda, and taught yoga and meditation on a daily basis. He also ran healing and spiritual retreats lasting from three days to two weeks, where individuals explored yoga and meditation while deep in the woods without running water, electricity, or the distractions of our day to day lives.
Recognizing at the age of forty-nine that he had unresolved issues around his own childhood sexual abuse he began a personal journey of healing which eventually brought him to Portland, Oregon where he currently is an advocate for survivors of sexual abuse and now is bringing his past practices to help teach mindfulness or more specifically introspective awareness with a focus on how the trauma of sexual abuse affects every moment of our lives.