Insight Meditation · Racial Justice
American insight meditation teacher and founding member of the Meditation Coalition, integrating vipassana practice with social and racial justice.
JoAnna Hardy teaches insight (vipassana) meditation with a particular focus on communities addressing racism, gender inequality and oppression. She is a founding member and teacher at the Meditation Coalition, a visiting retreat teacher at Insight Meditation Society, faculty at the University of Southern California, and a meditation trainer for Apple Fitness+.
She co-authored Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents with Matthew Brensilver and Oren Jay Sofer, and teaches silent retreats, social-justice-based meditation classes, workshops and youth programs.
“Mettā is probably the most difficult practice there is. It's such a great truth teller. It really asks us to push edges and to look at the deepest parts of ourselves — those that may have been neglected, denied, abandoned.”JoAnna Hardy
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A talk on the first foundation of mindfulness followed by a guided meditation, recorded on a four-night retreat at the Insight Meditation Society.
From the podcast Dharma Seed — Insight Meditation Society
The opening session of a Spirit Rock retreat on aging, dying and awakening, settling into mindfulness of the breath and of sensation in the body.
From the podcast Dharma Seed — Spirit Rock Meditation Center
The modern Insight movement that brought Theravada meditation practice to lay audiences in the West, largely independent of monastic robes and ritual forms.
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