Monica Antunes Dharma

About

"I'm Monica, a dedicated Dharma practitioner"

MONICA ANTUNES has been practicing Buddhist meditation in Burma and the West since 2008. She trained to teach the Dharma in the Insight Meditation tradition under the guidance of Guy Armstrong and Rob Burbea. She teaches in the US at IMS and Spirit Rock and in the UK at Gaia House, in France and in Switzerland where she currently resides. She also trained in NeuroSystemics, a bio-psychosocial approach to individual, group and community resilience. Monica was born and raised in Mozambique.

My Dharma teaching is informed by my integrative approach to resilience. For more information, please visit my clinical practice website.

Dharma for relational embodiment

My understanding of the Dharma has evolved over the many years of intensive practice and so has my approach to teaching it. With a strong foundation in the insight meditation tradition, the practice in Burma, my training in trauma sensitive approaches to mindfulness, my scientific work, my deep exploration of relational practices. Integral to my approach is the acknowledgement that all practices are contextual and to a certain degree, relational; that the body is central to the path of practice. Relationship to experience, relationship to practice, relationship to self, relationship to world, relationship to the path, relationship to image of self on the path.

I teach meditation and the dharma as an art, as a skill. And maybe even more importantly, we’ll meander together through the art of learning a skill, through which the path will flourish in your life and gradual cultivation will give rise to sudden awakenings.

I expect that, through this work you will open up the sense of what is possible for you in this lifetime as a human being and the sense of what liberation is and what it looks like in your life.