Anushka Fernandopulle's Dharma Talks
at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Anushka Fernandopulle
I am a lifelong spiritual practitioner who has trained for over 20 years in the Theravada Buddhist tradition in the U.S., India and Sri Lanka. I live in an urban area and consider how the practices can translate for my fellow citizens with a busy modern life; I am most interested in bringing these ancient teachings to the contemporary world, informed by my love of creative arts, technology, politics and pop culture. I also have an MBA and am particularly interested in the practice as it relates to leadership development -- how we can each see through the things that hold us back from manifesting our unique gifts and talents in the world. I am on the Spirit Rock Teacher's Council and teach at other meditation centers, but also do a lot of teaching & coaching in tech companies, nonprofit organizations, and less overtly spiritual settings. For more information, please visit: www.anushkaf.org
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2017-09-22
32 Parts of the Body - Guided Meditation 5 - Bile ,Phlegm, Pus, Blood, Sweat, F…
2017-09-20
32 Parts of the Body: Guided Meditation 2 - Flesh, Sinews, Bones, Marrow, Kidne…
2012-05-22
An Overview of the Noble Eightfold Path
2018-10-09
Attention to the Body
2016-03-22
Bright Guardians of the World
2011-11-22
Buddha's Recipe for Happiness
2012-07-19
Catching the Right Thought Trains
2018-10-11
Cracking the Code on Suffering: Vedana
2017-07-21
Cultivating Goodwill towards All (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-07-01
Day 2: Morning Instructions & Sitting Meditation
2016-07-02
Day 3: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation
2016-06-13
Day 3: Morning Instructions
2016-06-14
Day 4: Afternoon Instructions
2016-07-03
Day 4: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation
2018-04-13
Day Four: AM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-04-10
Day One: PM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-30
Day Three: Afternoon Instructions- Unstoppable Friendliness
2017-03-29
Day Two: Afternoon Instructions-Working with Thoughts
2018-04-11
Day Two: AM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-03-15
Developing Perception that Frees
2010-09-27
Dharma and Technology
2012-02-12
Dharma and Technology: Craving and the Arising of Self
2012-02-12
Dharma and Technology: Mindfulness and Focus
2018-10-10
Dharma as Nature (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-11-26
Dharma in the World
2025-03-18
Dharma of Time and Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-07-22
Distortions of Perception, Mind & View
2016-03-01
Diving Into Long Retreat
2017-09-23
Elements of Nature, elements of the body
2017-07-15
Entering Retreat: Dharma as Nature (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-07-15
Equanimity
2016-04-14
Evolving Together: Meditation and Modern Science, Talk 3
2025-03-08
Feeling Tone: Cracking the Code on Patterns of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Roc…
2025-03-02
Finding Your Anchor in Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-07-18
Fourth Day Morning Instructions-The Sixth Sense Door: Working with Thoughts (Re…
2017-09-21
Full Awareness of the Body
2013-11-28
Gratitude, Joy & Humility
2014-07-11
Guided Loving Kindness-Benefactor
2018-04-12
Insight and Awakening
2011-11-24
Instructional sit
2014-03-02
Intro to Insight Meditation: Mindfulness and Friendliness
2014-03-02
Intro to Insight Meditation: Root Cause of Suffering
2013-02-09
Intro to Insight, Practicing in your Life
2013-02-09
Intro to Insight, Thoughts and Emotions
2010-12-01
Investigating the Dharma: Refuges, Hindrances, Mindfulness
2018-04-13
Knowing the Animal Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-10-24
Love, Revolution and Idea of Self
2013-07-17
Loving The Enemy
2023-02-10
Metta for All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-07-23
Metta in the context of spiritual practice.
2018-07-15
Metta: Car Wash of the Heart (Retreat st Spirit Rock)
2025-03-03
Metta: Cultivating Kindness and Goodwill (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-07-08
Mindfulness & Liberation of the Body
2013-09-22
Mindfulness and Innovation
2013-09-22
Mindfulness and Innovation: Awareness of Thought
2014-10-26
Mindfulness and Sports
2025-03-12
Mindfulness of "Knowing" through Six Sense Doors (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-28
Morning Guided Instructions: Breath and Body
2013-08-31
Morning Instructions
2017-07-22
Morning Instructions: Things are as they are (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-31
Open Awareness Instructions & Q&A
2018-04-14
Questions and Answers (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-07-15
Refuge and Renunciation
2017-01-26
Returning Home From Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-05-25
Right Action 1 - Morning Session
2012-05-25
Right Action2 - Morning Session
2012-05-23
Right Speech and Listening
2017-07-19
Shifting Perspective towards Freedom
2016-03-08
Six Sense Spheres and Reflections on Long Retreat
2017-03-30
Some Different Ways of Looking at Dharma Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-01-02
Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Monday Night Meditation
2013-11-25
Suffering and Kindness
2014-07-12
Summer Camp of Metta
2017-03-28
The Keys to Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-07-18
The Skate Park of Your Mind
2014-12-10
They Tried to Bury Us, But They Didn't Know We Were Seeds
2017-01-24
Thinking and Mind-objects: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-01-24
Thinking and Mind-objects: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-04-11
This Animal Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-10-10
Thoughts are not the enemy of meditation (Exploring the field of the mind) (Ret…
2018-10-12
Three Characteristics of Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-12-11
Thursday Morning Guided
2013-07-13
Voyage on the Ocean of Metta
2016-01-28
Waking Up in Every World
2012-06-30
Walking as Spiritual Practice
2011-03-14
Watching the News Through the Lens of the Dhamma
2017-01-25
Working with Vedana: Tonal Quality of Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2009-07-17
Metta Retreat
2010-07-07
People of Color Meditation Retreat
2010-11-30
Discovering Presence in Each Moment
2011-11-18
Thanksgiving Insight Retreat
2012-05-21
Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path
2012-06-28
Annual People of Color Retreat: Deepening Your Dharma
2012-07-13
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-10-18
Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-07-12
Heart of Love Metta Retreat
2013-08-28
Labor Day Retreat
2013-11-22
Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat
2014-07-09
Metta Retreat
2014-12-08
Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science
2015-07-17
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-01-24
Waking up in Every World
2016-02-27
March Monthlong
2016-04-11
Evolving Together: Mindfulness, Meditation and Modern Science Retreat
2016-06-11
Walking Our Path Together: Insight Meditation with LGBTQI Community
2016-06-30
Finding Freedom: Vipassana Retreat for People of Color
2017-01-22
Mindfulness of Body, Speech and Mind
2017-03-27
Insight and Awakening: The Liberating Art of Samatha-Vipassana
2017-07-14
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-09-18
Finding Freedom in the Body
2018-04-09
Insight and Awakening
2018-07-11
July Metta
2018-10-09
Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation
2023-01-28
February Insight Meditation One Month Retreat
2025-03-01
March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
