Ānāpānasati With Heart & Parts Work With Laura G & Willie K

Enter Laura Geller and Willie Kunert—a married couple who met at Oberlin College almost 20 years ago, began meditating together as undergrads, lived in Southeast Asian monasteries, and now combine deep Buddhist practice with psychotherapy.

Laura (an assistant teacher under Beth Upton in the Pa-Auk tradition) and Willie (hospice chaplain, grief therapist) share their unlikely entries into the Dharma, their travels and practice in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, the profound (and sometimes challenging) practice of ānāpānasati (mindfulness of breathing), pairing loving-kindness with the breath, Pa-Auk’s systematic depth, complete approach, the seduction (and pitfalls) of “leveling up,” and how parts work beautifully complements insight practice.