Sunday Sangha – 25th October 2026

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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