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Anushka Fernandopulle
I am a lifelong spiritual practitioner who has trained for over 20 years in the Theravada Buddhist tradition in the U.S., India and Sri Lanka. I live in an urban area and consider how the practices can translate for my fellow citizens with a busy modern life; I am most interested in bringing these ancient teachings to the contemporary world, informed by my love of creative arts, technology, politics and pop culture. I also have an MBA and am particularly interested in the practice as it relates to leadership development -- how we can each see through the things that hold us back from manifesting our unique gifts and talents in the world. I am on the Spirit Rock Teacher's Council and teach at other meditation centers, but also do a lot of teaching & coaching in tech companies, nonprofit organizations, and less overtly spiritual settings. For more information, please visit: www.anushkaf.org
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2017-09-22
32 Parts of the Body - Guided Meditation 5 - Bile ,Phlegm, Pus, Blood, Sweat, F…
2017-09-20
32 Parts of the Body: Guided Meditation 2 - Flesh, Sinews, Bones, Marrow, Kidney
2012-09-02
Aligning With Truth
2012-05-22
An Overview of the Noble Eightfold Path
2024-10-29
Anatta or Not Self
2024-03-09
Anicca : Training to Perceive Impermanence & Changeablility
2018-10-09
Attention to the Body
2016-09-04
Awareness of thoughts and emotions
2016-03-22
Bright Guardians of the World
2011-11-22
Buddha's Recipe for Happiness
2012-07-19
Catching the Right Thought Trains
2025-09-05
Chanting
2026-03-13
Choiceless Attention (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-07-13
Compassion Practice
2015-02-14
Compassionate awareness, Balanced Awareness
2017-06-29
Cracking the Code - Meditation Instructions on Vedana or Feeling Tone
2018-10-11
Cracking the Code on Suffering: Vedana
2025-07-20
Cultivating a Tone of Kindness
2017-07-21
Cultivating Goodwill towards All (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-07-01
Day 2: Morning Instructions & Sitting Meditation
2016-07-02
Day 3: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation
2016-06-13
Day 3: Morning Instructions
2016-06-14
Day 4: Afternoon Instructions
2016-07-03
Day 4: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation
2018-04-13
Day Four: AM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-04-10
Day One: PM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-30
Day Three: Afternoon Instructions- Unstoppable Friendliness
2017-03-29
Day Two: Afternoon Instructions-Working with Thoughts
2018-04-11
Day Two: AM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-06-13
Death
2017-09-03
Deconstructing Our Life: Instructional Sit
2013-05-21
Developing Our Practice
2016-03-15
Developing Perception that Frees
2025-08-14
Dharma and Our Connection to the Earth
2010-09-27
Dharma and Technology
2012-02-12
Dharma and Technology: Craving and the Arising of Self
2012-02-12
Dharma and Technology: Mindfulness and Focus
2018-10-10
Dharma as Nature
2015-01-18
Dharma For MLK Day
2017-12-31
Dharma For The New Years Eve
2011-11-26
Dharma in the World
2025-03-18
Dharma of Time and Space
2016-09-03
Discovering six sense doors and the body
2015-07-22
Distortions of Perception, Mind & View
2016-03-01
Diving Into Long Retreat
2017-06-27
Dukkha & Refuge - Strain, Stress, Difficulty, Unreliability
2024-10-28
Dukkha + Compassion
2012-04-03
Dying to Ideas of the Self and Practicing Resurrection
2017-09-23
Elements of Nature, elements of the body
2024-08-31
Emotions and thoughts, Q&A
2017-07-15
Entering Retreat: Dharma as Nature (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-06-16
Envisioning Your Practice
2014-07-15
Equanimity
2026-03-16
Equanimity or Upekkha (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-04-14
Evolving Together: Meditation and Modern Science, Talk 3
2024-09-06
Feeling tone – cracking the code of reality
2024-09-01
Feeling tone and reactivity
2025-03-08
Feeling Tone: Cracking the Code on Patterns of Suffering
2026-03-09
Feeling Tone: Cracking the Code on Reactivity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-05-12
Finding Refuge As We Leave Retreat
2017-06-25
Finding Refuge in the Truth
2019-09-27
Finding True Refuge
2025-03-02
Finding Your Anchor in Meditation
2017-12-30
First Morning Instructions
2017-07-18
Fourth Day Morning Instructions-The Sixth Sense Door: Working with Thoughts (Re…
2018-09-06
Freedom and Ease Of Being
2017-09-21
Full Awareness of the Body
2013-11-28
Gratitude, Joy & Humility
2014-07-11
Guided Loving Kindness-Benefactor
2008-08-02
Guided Meditation - Day 3 with Questions And Answers
2017-06-26
Guided Meditation on Awareness of Emotions
2017-09-07
Guided Meditation On Four Wholesome States
2017-06-26
Guided Meditation on Metta Towards the Body
2017-06-30
Guided Meditation on Skilful & Unskilful Intentions
2017-06-29
Happiness, Wellbeing and Non Self
2015-02-15
Heart Practices - Cultivating Wholesome Qualities of Heart and Mind
2018-04-12
Insight and Awakening
2011-11-24
Instructional sit
2017-09-09
Instructions On Feeling Tone (Vedana)
2014-03-02
Intro to Insight Meditation: Mindfulness and Friendliness
2014-03-02
Intro to Insight Meditation: Root Cause of Suffering
2013-02-09
Intro to Insight, Practicing in your Life
2013-02-09
Intro to Insight, Thoughts and Emotions
2010-12-01
Investigating the Dharma: Refuges, Hindrances, Mindfulness
2014-09-30
Keep Calmly Knowing Change
2018-04-13
Knowing the Animal Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-09-01
Love For The Body
2012-10-24
Love, Revolution and Idea of Self
2013-07-17
Loving The Enemy
2017-05-05
Loving the Stranger
2017-05-05
Loving the Stranger - Talk
2012-09-01
Meditation Instruction
2018-09-01
Meditation Instructions - Day 1
2017-02-26
Meditation instructions - investigation of pain and emotions
2017-06-25
Meditation Instructions (Retreat Day 1)
2014-09-06
Meditation Instructions- Day 4 - Thoughts and Preception
2014-08-31
Metta (Loving Kindness) Practice
2022-09-07
Metta (loving-kindness) Practice
2023-02-10
Metta for All Beings
2025-07-17
Metta for All Beings
2018-09-07
Metta For One's Body
2009-07-23
Metta in the context of spiritual practice.
2015-09-05
Metta Practice Day
2018-07-15
Metta: Car Wash of the Heart (Retreat st Spirit Rock)
2025-03-03
Metta: Cultivating Kindness and Goodwill
2009-08-01
Metta: Digging A Good Trench In The Heart
2016-12-20
Metta: unstoppable friendliness
2010-07-08
Mindfulness & Liberation of the Body
2013-09-22
Mindfulness and Innovation
2013-09-22
Mindfulness and Innovation: Awareness of Thought
2014-10-26
Mindfulness and Sports
2025-03-12
Mindfulness of "Knowing" through Six Sense Doors
2026-03-05
Mindfulness of the Body, Continuity of Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-06-17
Mindfulness: Befriending Yourself
2017-03-28
Morning Guided Instructions: Breath and Body
2013-08-31
Morning Instructions
2014-09-03
Morning Instructions
2015-02-15
Morning Instructions
2018-01-03
Morning Instructions
2026-03-03
Morning Instructions - Day 1 of Monthlong (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-12-31
Morning Instructions - Guided Meditation
2015-03-07
Morning Instructions - Mindfulness of the Body
2016-12-19
Morning instructions– day one
2025-07-11
Morning Instructions: Goodwill for Someone Easy and Yourself
2017-07-22
Morning Instructions: Things are as they are (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-09-06
Morning Meditation Instructions
2018-09-05
Morning Meditation Instructions
2018-01-06
Multiple Choice Vipassana Practice
2017-09-02
Obstacle Course Of The Mind.
2011-11-01
Occupy the Six Senses
2017-03-31
Open Awareness Instructions & Q&A
2020-06-18
Opening Session
2015-09-06
Path Of Upward Mobility
2018-08-13
Perception and Dukkha
2026-03-19
Personality View or Sakkaya Ditthi (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-01-17
Practicing the Five Recollections
2017-02-26
Put it down, it's unreliable! That's better.
2018-04-14
Questions and Answers (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-11-02
Realms of Consciousness
2020-06-19
Recognising Mind States
2018-09-02
Recognizing Awareness
2017-06-26
Reflections on Mindful Eating.
2020-05-20
Refreshing the Heart, Living with Wisdom
2012-07-15
Refuge and Renunciation
2015-05-08
Renunciation & Why We Go on Retreat
2017-01-26
Returning Home From Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-05-25
Right Action 1 - Morning Session
2012-05-25
Right Action2 - Morning Session
2012-05-23
Right Speech and Listening
2026-03-12
Samadhi or Collectedness of Mind and Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-07-19
Shifting Perspective towards Freedom
2016-03-08
Six Sense Spheres and Reflections on Long Retreat
2018-09-01
Soundtrack Of The Mind
2017-01-02
Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Monday Night Meditation
2013-11-25
Suffering and Kindness
2014-07-12
Summer Camp of Metta
2023-08-10
talk: What is Dhamma?
2020-01-28
The Dharma
2008-05-18
The Dharma of Food
2014-06-17
The Dharma of Sports
2015-07-18
The Skate Park of Your Mind
2016-04-05
The Truth of the Way Things Are
2014-12-10
They Tried to Bury Us, But They Didn't Know We Were Seeds
2017-01-24
Thinking and Mind-objects: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-01-24
Thinking and Mind-objects: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-01-27
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Dharma Practice
2018-04-11
This Animal Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-10-10
Thoughts Are Not the Enemy of Meditation
2014-08-30
Three Characteristics and Keeping Your Seat
2018-10-12
Three Characteristics of Experience
2015-03-10
Three Instructions for Life
2014-12-11
Thursday Morning Guided
2008-08-01
Top Five Weather Patterns Of Mind
2014-07-01
Training the Mind
2017-07-01
Transition Into Modern Life
2020-06-20
Vedanā, Guided Meditation, Mettā, Compassion, The Brahma Viharas
2013-07-13
Voyage on the Ocean of Metta
2016-01-28
Waking Up in Every World
2012-06-30
Walking as Spiritual Practice
2011-03-14
Watching the News Through the Lens of the Dhamma
2011-11-06
Wise Action
2012-01-08
Wise Concentration
2011-12-18
Wise Effort
2011-12-11
Wise Intention
2012-01-01
Wise Livelihood
2012-01-15
Wise Mindfulness
2022-09-08
Working with feeling tone and reactivity
2018-09-07
Working With Mindfulness Of Mind
2017-01-25
Working with Vedana: Tonal Quality of Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-06
Workshop - Meditation as an Act of Love
2017-06-28
Your Body as Nature - Guided Meditation on Earth, Air, Fire, Water
2018-08-11
Your Body is Part of Nature
2018-08-09
Your Body, Buddha's Body
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Select one of Anushka Fernandopulle's 67 retreats
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2000-01-01
Monthly Guest Dharma Talk
2000-01-01
Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group
2008-07-30
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2009-06-16
People of Color Retreat
2009-07-17
Metta Retreat
2009-07-29
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2010-07-07
People of Color Meditation Retreat
2010-11-30
Discovering Presence in Each Moment
2011-05-04
Spring Vipassana Retreat
2011-11-18
Thanksgiving Insight Retreat
2012-05-21
Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path
2012-06-28
Annual People of Color Retreat: Deepening Your Dharma
2012-07-13
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-08-31
Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2012-10-18
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-07-12
Heart of Love Metta Retreat
2013-08-28
Labor Day Retreat
2013-11-22
Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat
2014-07-09
Metta Retreat
2014-08-29
Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2014-09-02
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community
2014-12-08
Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science
2015-01-16
Clear Mind, Open Heart: Insight Meditation Weekend
2015-02-12
Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Retreat
2015-03-06
Mindful of the Body: Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-05-07
Balanced Sensitivity, Embodied Wisdom
2015-07-17
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-09-04
Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2016-01-24
Waking up in Every World
2016-02-27
March Monthlong
2016-04-11
Evolving Together: Mindfulness, Meditation and Modern Science Retreat
2016-06-11
Walking Our Path Together: Insight Meditation with LGBTQI Community
2016-06-30
Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color
2016-09-02
Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2016-12-18
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community
2017-01-22
Mindfulness of Body, Speech and Mind
2017-02-24
Establishing Presence: Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-03-27
Insight and Awakening: The Liberating Art of Samatha-Vipassana
2017-06-24
Finding True Refuge in a Modern World
2017-07-14
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-09-01
Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2017-09-05
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community
2017-09-18
Finding Freedom in the Body
2017-12-29
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2018-04-09
Insight and Awakening
2018-07-11
July Metta
2018-08-08
Your Body, Buddha's Body
2018-08-31
Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2018-09-04
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community
2018-10-09
Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation
2020-06-18
Decolonizing the Mind and Cultivating the Causes of Happiness
2021-06-11
Body as Nature, Nature in the Body: Dharma and Our Connection to the Earth
2022-01-27
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Dharma Practice
2022-09-06
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community
2023-01-28
February Insight Meditation One Month Retreat
2023-02-02
Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023
2024-03-08
Three Views for Freedom
2024-08-30
Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend
2024-09-03
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community
2024-10-26
Three Views for Freedom
2025-03-01
March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2025-07-09
Summer Lovingkindness Retreat
2025-07-18
Summer Insight Meditation Retreat
2025-08-11
Nature is Our Body: Dharma and Connection to the Earth (248R25)
2025-09-02
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community – 25…
2026-03-02
2026 March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
