Heather Sundberg has taught insight meditation since 1999, has completed the Spirit Rock/IMS Teacher Training program and is currently on the Spirit Rock Teacher's Council. Beginning her own meditation practice in her late teens, for the last 30 years, Heather has studied with senior teachers in the Insight Meditation (Vipassana) and Tibetan (Vajrayana) traditions. She has completed 3 accumulated years of silent retreat, and has sat 1-3 months of retreat a year for the last 25 years. She was the Spirit Rock Family & Teen Program Teacher & Manager for a decade. Between 2010- 2015 she spent a cumulative one-year in study, practice, and pilgrimage in Asia. From 2011-2021, she was a Core Teacher at Mountain Stream Meditation Center and sister communities in the CA Sierra Foothills, and continues to teach nationally & internationally. She has training in both Somatic Experiencing and Hakomi Mindfulness Somatic Therapy and offers 'individual meditation support sessions' to students on the phone or on screen on a sliding scale donation basis. Her teaching emphasizes embodiment, heartfulness, emptiness, maturing awareness and practical wisdom.
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What is Insight Meditation?

Insight meditation (Vipassana) is the practice of cultivating a precise nonjudgmental attention, which can clearly experience the present moment, and by doing so creates the possibility for ever-deepening insight into the nature of things. Often associated with mindfulness meditation, insight meditation as it is practiced in the west traces its roots to the Theravadan traditions from Thailand, Burma, and Sri Lanka.