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Since 1999, Jaya has taught meditation to contact aliveness beyond ideas, and has brought deep rest meditation to retreats since 2001. After studying religion and art at Harvard, she centered her life in India for 20 years. She was privileged to immerse in life near her teachers, including non-duality guru Sri H.W.L. Poonjaji or "Papaji." In the early 2000s, she founded the non-profit Open Dharma, a collective of international teachers and volunteers, dedicated to encouraging awakening, compassion and community for thousands of people of diverse ages and backgrounds. Her unique and creative voice interweaves her decades of experience in Buddhism, yoga, Advaita (non-duality), Christianity, and Hindu mysticism, along with ecology and art—from poetry and painting to meditative movement. She has also studied and practiced the Japanese art of Jin Shin Jyutsu since 1994, Permaculture since 1995, and Body Mind Centering since 2005. She continues to teach, internationally and online, and published a book of Dharma cartoons, called Already Here, in 2022. Jaya's way of teaching is based on friendliness and trust--trust in our inborn belonging to a greater whole, and trust in each person's innate capacity to discover and follow their unique path. Her meditations create a space for freedom--with permission to make meditation one's own. She encourages listeners to allow her voice to be an accompaniment as they open to their own inner instructions.
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