Keri Pederson began meditating in 1998 in the lineage of S.N. Goenka. After sitting retreats with a variety of lay and monastic teachers in the US and Asia, she started teaching meditation in 2007. A graduate of the IMS/Spirit Rock Teacher Training Program, she lives and teaches in Seattle, where she also works in elder-care and is the mother of a young son.
Reflections on the Paramis (Particularly Dana and Sila) as essential capacities for awakening as well as relating skillfully to oneself and thw world (AKA 'This Life') This talk references the song 'Go Easy Kid" by Monica Martin, Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit and Am I Helping, Fixing or Serving? by Rachel Naomi Remen