With 25-years of practice experience within the Triratna Buddhist Community, Ananta has received guidance and inspiration from many incredible teachers. He has spent over three years on retreat, and undertook ordination training in 2007, being ordained (spiritually reborn) as Ananta—he who is boundless.
A leading teacher of Triratna New York and of the Triratna US & Canada Men’s ordination training team, he has been guiding meditation sessions and retreats since 2005. He also trained and became a certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher through the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, and has studied other mindfulness modalities such as for pain, for teens, for emotional regulation and in understanding and responding to racism. He has also trained as a yoga teacher with Bodhi Yoga.
Ananta has degrees in International Relations and Development Studies from the University of Sussex in the UK.
Learn more at https://www.ananta.earth/
Events with Ananta
The Human BuddhaNovember 15 - 18, 2024
RETREAT BY INVITED PRESENTER “The Buddha was born as we are born. What the Buddha overcame, we too can overcome. What the Buddha attained, we too can attain.” These verses (from Triratna’s ‘Threefold Puja’) perfectly capture something of the essential American ideal. They spring from the same great spirit as the words of the Constitution, Gettysburg Address and Proclamation of Emancipation that have framed what we mean, at our best, when we speak of freedom and liberty. As a human aspiration they set us on a path that can turn such lofty ambitions into actual change and transcendence. On…
