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Live : Sunday Sangha – 24th April 2022

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Our 90-minute Sunday Sangha features renowned meditation teachers to give you in-depth guidance, dharma teachings, and live Q&A.

This session is led by Shaila Catherine.

Start Time: 11am PT (L.A.) / 2pm ET (N.Y.) / 7pm BST (London) / 8pm CEST (Paris)

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Shaila Catherine

Sunday Sangha – 24th April 2022

Shaila Catherine

Join us in global community, live every Sunday

Our 90-minute Sunday Sangha features renowned meditation teachers to give you in-depth guidance, dharma teachings, and live Q&A.

This session is led by Shaila Catherine.

Start Time: 11am PT (L.A.) / 2pm ET (N.Y.) / 7pm BST (London) / 8pm CEST (Paris)

If this is your first time, you need to create a one-time login to access the training.

If you are joining us live and the session window doesn’t load below, please click here to open the session.

Need help getting started? Follow our guide below.

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Shaila Catherine

Shaila Catherine

Shaila Catherine shailacatherine.com is the founder of Bodhi Courses, an online Dhamma classroom, and Insight Meditation South Bay, a Buddhist meditation center in Silicon Valley. She began practicing meditation in 1980, spent more than nine years in silent retreat, taught meditation internationally since 1996, and authored three books on mindfulness, concentration, and insight.

Her first book, Focused and Fearless: A Meditator’s Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity introduces the deep concentration practices of jhāna. Her second book, Wisdom Wide and Deep: A Practical Handbook for Mastering Jhāna and Vipassanā makes the systematic practices taught by Pa-Auk Sayadaw accessible to western practitioners. Her third book, Beyond Distraction: Five Practical Ways to Focus the Mind teaches skills to overcome restless thinking, rumination, and obstructive habitual patterns.

Shaila’s teachings emphasize deep samadhi, jhāna, and the path of liberating insight.