Leigh Brasington has been practicing meditation since 1985 and is the senior American student of the late Ven. Ayya Khema. Leigh began assisting Ven. Ayya Khema in 1994, and began teaching retreats on his on in 1997. He is also authorized to teach by Jack Kornfield. Leigh has taught the jhanas, along with multiple insight practices, at over one hundred and seventy residential retreats throughout the United States and Europe. He is the author of the books Right Concentration, Dependent Origination and Emptiness, The Gradual Training, On The Way To The Far Shore, and Love, Compassion, Joy, Equanimity.
