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 forest, she draws on the natural world to support her practice. She is the principal insight teacher at the Kuan Yin Meditation Centre in Lismore, NSW.

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Upcoming Programs by Emma Pittaway

Wednesday Night Talks - Livestream

Also with Patrick Kearney and Robyn Gibson

January 21 - February 11, 2026
In the 28-day retreat currently on at BMIMC we have three teachers who each bring their own perspective to the practice of vipassana through a series of four talks.

Remembering Awareness - Nine-day retreat

Also with Patrick Kearney

November 6 - 15, 2026

Our practice is based on mindfulness, which emerges from the continuity of awareness. How can we maintain continuous awareness? By remembering that we are already aware. We do not need to generate awareness. When we “try” to be aware, our effort is based on our desire to be someone different, to have something different. But if […]