Where I Teach

Potomac Massage Training Institute, Washington, DC:  PMTI, a national leader in massage therapy education, transforms the health and well-being of the Washington, DC metropolitan community through professional development, outreach, local partnerships and research.  http://pmti.org

Sugarloaf Congregation of Unitarian Universalists, Germantown, Maryland
http://scuu.org/site/

Montgomery County, Maryland Recreation Department http://www6.montgomerycountymd.gov/rectmpl.asp?url=/content/rec/index.asp

Howard Community College, Columbia, Maryland http://coned.howardcc.edu/Courses/lifestyle_and_leisure/wellness_body_mind_spirit.html

Who Are My Teachers?

Shaila Catherine has been practicing meditation since 1980, with more than eight years of accumulated silent retreat experience. She has taught insight meditation since 1996 in the USA, Europe, Israel, New Zealand, and Canada. Shaila has dedicated several years to studying with masters in India, Nepal and Thailand, completed a one year intensive meditation retreat with the focus on concentration and jhana practices, and authored two books. She has extensive experience with the practice of metta, including seven months exploring metta as the meditation subject in retreats.

Where I Learn

Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachusetts
http://dharma.org/

Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Barre, Massachusetts http://bcbsdharma.org

Insight Meditation South Bay, Mountain View, California http://imsb.org