Siri was born and raised in Bangkok to Californian parents and is both a Thai and USA citizen. After working as an international school teacher for 15 years she branched off to become a mindfulness educator in 2011. Apart from teaching Mindful Self Compassion, she is also a qualified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher, is trained to teach the Mindfulness in Schools Project .begin, .b Foundations, Paws.b, and .b courses, she is a certified Mindful Schools educator, and a Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) trained teacher. On occasion, she travels to Bangkok & Hua Hin to teach courses. At her home in Pranburi (on the beach) she run retreats and also teaches online.