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Sunday Sangha – 25th October 2026

Nina la Rosa

This session is led by Nina La Rosa.

Start Time: 12 pm PDT (LA) / 3 pm EDT (NY) / 7 pm GMT (London) / 8 pm CET (Paris). 90-minute live session.

This week’s theme: The Ardent Heart: Remembering Why We Practice

I almost called this session “Loving the Dharma, Forgetting to Sit.” Before meditating, we’re often invited to remember our intention, then move on within seconds. In this session we’ll stay with that question, using early Buddhist teachings, a bit of science, and guided reflection to explore why we practice and reconnect with the ardency that keeps bringing us back.

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Nina La Rosa

Nina la Rosa

Nina La Rosa has been practicing and studying meditation since 2004 and teaching for almost 20 years. She trained closely with Shinzen Young, who prepared her to teach, and her first teacher and longtime mentor is Arnie Kozak. Her teaching weaves Shinzen’s precise, practical approach together with classical Buddhist sources, with compassion as a central thread.

Nina spent several years working in clinical neuroscience research on meditation and chronic illness at the University of Vermont, some of it in collaboration with Shinzen. She brings that curiosity about how the mind works into her teaching, along with a commitment to social justice. As a mother of two, she is especially interested in how practice lives and changes across the seasons of a householder’s life.

Nina holds a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling and a BA in psychology, and has worked in private practice as a psychotherapist since 2012. Originally from Vermont, USA, she lives near Barcelona and offers teaching worldwide, in person and online.

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