The
Perth Insight Meditation Group is a not-for-profit organization
of a small group of people who support meditation retreats
in Perth.
As the group has strengthened over a 15
year period, several Perth based retreats are organized
annually, led by a range of visiting lay and ordained
teachers invited from around the world.
Sky Dawson has practiced vipassana meditation since 1981 and completed the Insight Meditation Society Teacher Training Program (USA) in 2005. She lives in Western Australia where she teaches the dharma. She also has extensive experience in hospice and palliative care.
She runs weekly meditation sittings at her home and monthly half day retreats.
Steven Armstrong
Has
practiced mindfulness since 1975, and has led vipassana
and metta retreats grounded in the Buddha’s understanding
of mind, since 1990.
He is a co-founding director and guiding teacher of
Ho’omalamalama, a Dhamma sanctuary and hermitage
on Maui.
Steve is on the Teaching Staff of IMS at Barre Massachusetts
and is a founding teacher of the Perth Insight Meditation
Group.
Has
practiced insight meditation for over 20 years.
His training includes practice as a Buddhist monk
in Thailand with Ajahn Buddhadasa.
He began teaching in 1984 and has led retreats in the
US, Europe and Australia.Guy is a guiding teacher at
Spirit Rock Meditation Centre, California.
Began
practicing vipassana meditation in India in 1981.
She spent five years in England, where she managed
a retreat center and was a founding member of the Sharpham
meditation community.
When she moved to California in 1988, she continued
her dharma service at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
in a number of roles, including executive director.
Sally began teaching in 1996, and is one of the guiding
teachers of Spirit Rock's Dedicated Practitioner Program.
Patrick Kearney
Has
nearly 30 years experience in Buddhist meditation, in
both the Zen and Theravada traditions.
Since 1984 he has trained in vipassana (insight) meditation
in the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma.
His teachers have included Robert Aitken Roshi, Sayadaw
U Pandita, Sayadaw U Lakkhana, Sayadaw U Janaka, John
Hale and Christopher Titmuss.
Patrick is based in Canberra, and teaches retreats,
workshops and classes around Australia.
He teaches both the techniques of meditation and the
theory that underlies them.
Patrick's popular posture and flexibility stretches to help with retreat practice can be Downloaded here.
Was
born in Switzerland, and ordained with Sayadaw U Janaka
in Burma in 1992, after many years of Buddhist practice.
Based at Sayadaw’s forest center of Chanmyay Yeiktha,
she translates for and assists foreign meditators.
She also teaches vipassana retreats in Australia and
Europe.
Sayadaw U Tejaniyabegan his Buddhist training as a young teenager in Burma under the late Shwe Oo Min Sayadaw (1913–2002). Twelve years ago, following life as a householder with a business career, he ordained as a monk. He teaches meditation at Shwe Oo Min Dhammasukha Tawya in Rangoon, Burma.
The
Perth Insight Meditation Group is a not-for-profit organization
of a small group of people who support meditation retreats
in Perth. 
Sky Dawson has practiced vipassana meditation since 1981 and completed the Insight Meditation Society Teacher Training Program (USA) in 2005. She lives in Western Australia where she teaches the dharma. She also has extensive experience in hospice and palliative care.
Has
practiced mindfulness since 1975, and has led vipassana
and metta retreats grounded in the Buddha’s understanding
of mind, since 1990.
Began
practicing in 1975,and under the guidance of Anagarika
Munindra and Sayadaw U Pandita, she has been trained
in vipassana and metta meditations.
Has
practiced insight meditation for over 20 years.
Began
practicing vipassana meditation in India in 1981.
Has
nearly 30 years experience in Buddhist meditation, in
both the Zen and Theravada traditions.
Was
born in Switzerland, and ordained with Sayadaw U Janaka
in Burma in 1992, after many years of Buddhist practice.
began his Buddhist training as a young teenager in Burma under the late Shwe Oo Min Sayadaw (1913–2002). Twelve years ago, following life as a householder with a business career, he ordained as a monk. He teaches meditation at Shwe Oo Min Dhammasukha Tawya in Rangoon, Burma.