Ayya Anandabodhi

Residential Retreat Teacher, Monastic

Ayya Anandabodhi first encountered the Buddha's teachings in her early teens, igniting a deep interest in the Buddha's Path of Awakening. She lived and trained as a nun in the Forest Tradition at Amaravati and Chithurst monasteries in England from 1992 until 2009, when she moved to the US to help establish Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery, a training monastery for women. Her practice and teaching are guided by early Buddhist scriptures and through nature's pure and immediate Dhamma. In 2011, she took full Bhikkhuni Ordination, joining the growing number of women who are reclaiming this path in the Theravada tradition. She currently resides at Aloka Vihara, near Placerville, CA.

All conditions are transient. This is the truth, you know. And yet we get stuck trying to make things solid, or feeling that we’re solid. And it can be just a feeling! It's really important to learn how to know the transience of all things, especially to be with the arising of something difficult. Feel it, maybe even hear the thoughts around it, and then stay with it. Stay with it and watch it change. It will change—everything changes—it passes away, and then it’s gone.
 
Ayya Anandabodhi, Untangling the Knot of Self

Ayya Anandabodhi's Upcoming Programs

Retreat On-Land

May 30 - June 4, 2025 Friday - Wednesday | 5 nights

Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

Registration Opens November 13, 2024. Working with the Four Establishments of Mindfulness, we will explore how we create entanglements and therefore can free ourselves from these recurring patterns. Turning towards these tangles with kindness and understanding allows the metabolizing and releasing of old habits. In keeping with the 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastic tradition, this retreat will include daily periods of devotional chanting and an adherence to the Eight Precepts. This retreat also includes sitting and walking meditation, practice meetings with teachers, and Dharma talks.

Ayya Anandabodhi

Ayya Anandabodhi

Ayya Santacitta

Ayya Santacitta

Ayya Santussika

Ayya Santussika

Emily Carpenter

Emily Carpenter

Dharma Library

Can't join us live online or on the land? Study and practice at your convenience with Ayya Anandabodhi through our new library of recordings, articles, and self-paced online courses.