Shaila Catherine

Shaila Catherine is the founder of Bodhi Courses, an online Dhamma classroom, and Insight Meditation South Bay, a Buddhist meditation center in Silicon Valley in California. She has authored two books, Focused and Fearless: A Meditator’s Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity and Wisdom Wide and Deep: A Practical Handbook for Mastering Jhāna and Vipassanā to help make traditional approaches to samadhi and vipassana accessible to western practitioners. Her third book, Beyond Distraction: Five Practical Ways To Focus The Mind, will be published in May 2022.

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