Shaila Catherine
Dhamma Teacher
Shaila Catherine
Dhamma Teacher
Shaila Catherine
Dhamma Teacher
Shaila Catherine
Dhamma Teacher
About Shaila Catherine
Shaila is a Buddhist meditation teacher and highly acclaimed author of three books on concentration (jhāna) and insight (vipassanā) meditation. She teaches meditation retreats world wide, and founded Bodhi Courses, an online dharma classroom. Shaila is the principal teacher for Insight Meditation South Bay, a center for mindfulness, compassion, and wisdom in Silicon Valley in California. She appreciates deep retreat practice, loves to read the discourses of the Buddha, and is dedicated to the liberating potential of the meditative path.
About Shaila Catherine
The earlier paragraph is NOT informative at all. I’d like to see something more narrative here. Where have you been, when did you go and whom did you study with?
Shaila Catherine is the founder of Bodhi Courses, this online Dhamma classroom, and also Insight Meditation South Bay, a center for mindfulness, compassion, and wisdom in Silicon Valley, California.
Shaila has been practicing meditation since 1980, with more than eight years of accumulated silent retreat experience. She has taught insight meditation since 1996 in the USA, Europe, Israel, New Zealand, and Canada. Shaila has dedicated several years to studying with masters in India, Nepal and Thailand, completed a one year intensive meditation retreat with the focus on concentration and jhana practices, and authored Focused and Fearless: A Meditator’s Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity, (Wisdom Publications, 2008). She has extensive experience with the practice of metta, including seven months exploring metta as the meditation subject in retreats. From 2006-2014 Shaila trained in samadhi and vipassana under the direction of Venerable Pa-Auk Sayadaw of Myanmar. She authored Wisdom Wide and Deep: A Practical Handbook for Mastering Jhana and Vipassana (Wisdom Publications, 2011) to help make this traditional approach to meditative training accessible to western practitioners.
Training with Great Masters
Shaila Catherine was introduced to meditation in 1980 and began a lifetime of dedicated dharma practice.
She has studied with renown teachers in the United States, England, India, Thailand and Nepal. She trained with the founders of western insight meditation centers including Christopher Titmuss and Joseph Goldstein, as well as eminent Asian teachers H.W.L. Poonja, Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche and Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.
She has twice completed the rigorous jhāna and vipassanā training program of Pa-Auk Sayadaw and honed her satipaṭṭhāna practice while teaching with Anālayo Bhikkhu.
1991
Christopher Titmus,
H. W. L. Poonja &
Shaila Catherine
Lucknow, India
1990
Shaila Catherine &
H. W. L. Poonja
Lucknow, India
Pa-Auk Sayadaw
photo courtesy of Robert Cusick
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Shaila’s Teachers
Shaila has studied with renown teachers in the United States, England, India, Thailand and Nepal. She trained with the founders of western insight meditation centers including Christopher Titmuss and Joseph Goldstein, as well as eminent Asian teachers H.W.L. Poonja, Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche and Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.
1991
Christopher Titmuss,
H.W.L. Poonja &
Shaila Catherine
1990
Shaila Catherine &
H.W.L. Poonja
Pa-Auk Sayadaw
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