Satipatthana Meditation

Instructor(s): Bhikkhu Anālayo, Rachel Lewis, Jeanne Corrigal, Valeria Galetto

Program Description:

For more information, please visit the program page.

Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation is an interactive and comprehensive online program modeled on in-person programs offered globally by Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo on the foundational mindfulness text the Satipaṭṭhāna-sutta. While based on scholarly research, the emphasis throughout this online program is on what is relevant to actual meditation practice. In order to promote accessibility and support individual learning styles, students are offered a variety of tools to make this text personally relevant and integrated into daily living.

About the Instructor(s):
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  Bhikkhu Anālayo

  Bhikkhu Anālayo is a scholar-monk and the author of numerous books on meditation and early Buddhism, such as Satipatthāna: The Direct Path to Realization, Perspectives on Satipatthāna, and Satipatthāna Meditation: A Practice Guide. He is a Faculty Member at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, having retired from being a professor at the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Hamburg. His main area of academic research is early Buddhism, with a special interest in the topics of meditation and women in Buddhism. At the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies he regularly teaches residential study & practice courses, participates in online programs and undertakes research into meditation-related themes.  For a full list of Bhikkhu Anālayo’s publications, please click here.

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  Rachel Lewis

  Rachel Lewis began practicing insight meditation in 2003, while completing her physics PhD at Yale. Since 2011, she has taught dharma and meditation classes and retreats in British Columbia and beyond. She completed the IMS/IRC 4-year teacher training in 2021, and is a guiding teacher of the British Columbia Insight Meditation Society. Her dharma teaching interests include the power of music, humour, and creativity to increase our capacity for learning, as well as the way that practice supports and is supported by social justice work.

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  Jeanne Corrigal

  Jeanne Corrigal is the guiding teacher for the Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community, and a graduate of the 2017-2021 IMS teacher training program.  She deeply appreciates metta and nature based practices. She is certified with Indigenous Focusing Oriented Trauma Therapy (IFOT), is a certified MBSR teacher, and she has trained with Mindful Schools and Somatic Experiencing.  She is Métis, and one of her first teachers in loving presence was Cree Elder Jim Settee.

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  Valeria Galetto

  Valeria Galetto began practicing insight meditation in 2012, under the supervision of Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella at the Insight Meditation Center (IMC). She is a mentor in the Noble Eightfold Path Program and a support teacher of the online course Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation, both offered through IMC. She is a certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher (UMass) and an adjunct mindfulness professor in health care at Samuel Merritt University’s School of Nursing.