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 
    
        2025-07-13
            Compassion Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2018-10-11
            Cracking the Code on Suffering: Vedana 
    
        2025-07-20
            Cultivating a Tone of Kindness 
    
        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 
    
        2025-08-14
            Dharma and Our Connection to the Earth 
    
        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) 
    
        2025-07-17
            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 
    
        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 
    
        2025-07-11
            Morning Instructions: Goodwill for Someone Easy and Yourself 
    
        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 
    
        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 
    
        2025-07-09
            Summer Lovingkindness Retreat 
    
        2025-07-18
            Summer Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2025-08-11
            Nature is Our Body: Dharma and Connection to the Earth (248R25)