Neesha Patel

Neesha Patel

Neesha is inspired by the call to awakening. She is deeply grateful for the Buddha’s teachings and for the opportunity to learn and practice dhamma in both Asia and the US.  She loves both intensive longer retreat practice as well as daily life practice. Her practice...
Ayya Ānandabodhī Bhikkhuni

Ayya Ānandabodhī Bhikkhuni

Ayya Ānandabodhī was born and raised in Wales, UK. Ayya first encountered the Buddha’s teaching in her early teens while reading about the Four Noble Truths. This was life-changing and from that moment she experienced a deep confidence in the Buddha’s insight and a...
Ajahn Kovilo Bhikkhu

Ajahn Kovilo Bhikkhu

Ajahn Kovilo is an Ohio-born Theravāda forest monk. Having been introduced to meditation, the five precepts, and the Pāli Canon through the Goenka tradition, Ajahn Kovilo’s growing interest in Dhamma led him to enter the monastery in 2006 in hopes of devoting his life...
Ven. Canda Bhikkhuni

Ven. Canda Bhikkhuni

Ven Canda met the Dhamma in 1996 in India and practiced intensive meditation, sitting and serving scores of Vipassana retreats, before ordaining in Burma in 2006. She took full ‘bhikkhuni’ ordination with her teacher Ajahn Brahm in Australia in 2014 and...
Ajahn Nisabho Bhikkhu

Ajahn Nisabho Bhikkhu

After finishing college in 2012, Ven. Nisabho (addressed as “Ajahn Nisabho” in the Thai custom) left his native Washington to go forth as a Buddhist monk in Thailand. He received full ordination the following spring under Ajahn Anan, a senior disciple of renowned...