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Louise Taylor
Louise Taylor is a meditation practitioner with over 20 years’ experience, and has been teaching since 2018. Her principal teachers are Patrick Kearney and Subhana Barzarghi. Louise is a founding member of Radiant Mind Insight Meditation and leads single and multi-day meditation retreats. Her teaching style encourages finding a refuge in nature, deep enquiry into […]
Robyn Gibson
Robyn Gibson has been practising and studying meditation for 30 years, predominantly in the Mahāsi lineage of Theravāda Buddhism. Her principal teachers have been Patrick Kearney and Carol Perry. Teaching since 2016, Robyn’s approach brings together the Buddha’s radical teachings of freedom through embodied presence, deep ecology and other nature-based practices, and creative expression. All […]
Malcolm Huxter
Malcolm began following the teachings of the Buddha in the 1970s with Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism. Since then, he has mostly practised insight and serenity within the Theravada traditions which has included: ordaining in forest traditions of Thailand for 2 years in the late 1970s’, several intensive long retreats within the Mahasi traditions, and yearly self-retreats […]
Malcolm McClintock
Malcolm began meditating in 1966 at the age of 16 years in Sydney and has trained with a broad range of experienced and respected teachers over many years in Australia and overseas. His teachers include Sivali Mahathera, Sayadaw U Janaka, Sayadaw U Pandita, Sayadaw U Indaka as well as Mahasi Sayadaw himself. Malcolm has also […]
Emma Pittaway
Emma Pittaway teaches an open “natural awareness” approach that emphasises meditation as a way of being in the world, based on her training in the Burmese lineage of Mahāsī Sayādaw via Shwe Oo Min Sayādaw and his dharma successor, Sayādaw U Tejaniya. Inspired by the Buddha and his followers, who lived and meditated in the […]
The Way of Mindfulness, Deepening Practice 28-Day Retreat, Remembering Awareness - Nine-day retreat,
Andrew Luff
Andrew Luff (Nipako), has been practicing Dhamma for over 22 years. He has been teaching in Sydney Australia and the USA. He started his Dhamma life at Cittaviveka monastery in the UK, where he trained for 8 years as a monk. His teachers being Ajahn Sumedho, Ajahn Sucitto and has more recently worked with Jason Siff.
Lesley Lebkowicz
Lesley Lebkowicz has been practicing vipassana meditation for 40 years and has spent several years in silent retreat in Australia, the USA and Burma. She has worked as a teacher, counsellor and writer and currently divides her time between formal spiritual practice and writing. Lesley founded and led the Canberra Insight Meditation Group for 13 years. […]
Tara Frances
Tara Frances is a co-founder and was a major sponsor in the establishment of the Centre. She has practised vipassanā meditation for 30 years in Burma, Nepal and Australia, with Sayādaw U Pandita, the senior disciple of Mahāsī Sayādaw, and other senior teachers.
Introduction to Metta - Weekend, Two Week Metta Retreat & Introductory weekend, Long Weekend Retreat, Easter Retreat,
Steven Smith
Anchored in the Theravadan Buddhist Burmese lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw since 1974, Steven Smith was trained and sanctioned as a teacher by the late revered monk and meditation master Sayadaw U Pandita. Steven teaches Vipassana and the Divine Abodes (loving-kindness, compassion, joy, equanimity) in meditation retreats in Asia, Hawai’i, North America and Australia. He co-founded […]
Ariya Baumann
Ariya B. Baumann (formerly Ariya Nani) was a Buddhist nun for 21 years, ordained in Burma by Sayadaw U Janaka. For many years she had been guiding foreign meditators at the Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Center. She now lives in Switzerland and teaches mettā and vipassanā retreats worldwide.For further detail see Ariya's website.