Namaste and Welcome to all! My name is Subha Srinivasan and I live in the upper valley in New England with my husband and daughter. I came to the US in 2001 as a graduate student from India and when I found my first yoga class, it felt like I had come home. I went on my first yoga retreat to Kripalu in 2005 and have been meditating with mindfulness and loving-kindness practices since 2007. These practices have changed my life and helped me live in a more authentic way. They continually inspire me to stay open to life’s experiences with the intention of kindness and self-compassion and I feel moved to share them with others

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My background:

I have been practicing in the vipassana (insight meditation) style of mindfulness since 2007 with Valley Insight Meditation Society. My practice was transformed by a loving-kindness (metta) retreat in 2008 at Insight Meditation Society (IMS), Barre, MA. Since then, metta has flavored my practice and life in profound ways, especially as a parent and a high-school math teacher. I am a recent alum of MMTCP program (class of 2023) and offer courses on mindfulness and loving-kindness as a teacher in the Valley Insight Meditation Society community. I believe that relaxation and kindness important when we enter the space of meditation, and my teaching style inclines towards gentleness and allowing our experience to unfold while practicing letting go of control. My guiding teachers have been Doreen Schweizer, Michele McDonald, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield and Stan Eisenstein and I continue to be inspired by my dharma friends and other teachers. In spring of 2022, I had my first experience with insight dialogue (ID) pioneered by Greg Kramer through a retreat with Jan Surrey and Marsha Lawson and I became drawn to this relational practice. Since then, I have attended multiple ID retreats and am currently facilitator-in-training mentored by Marsha Lawson.