Teachers
Louise Taylor is a meditation practitioner with over 20 years experience, and Teaching since 2018. Her practice is influenced by the lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw, whose teachings focus on simply noting objects of awareness as they appear through the sense doors (including thoughts). This simple yet profound practice creates fertile conditions for insight to arise. Her principal teachers are Patrick Kearney and Subhana Barzarghi. Louise lives in Southern Tasmania, where she works as a midwife, makes cuttlefish cast jewellery and enjoys getting lost in nature, for hours and days, often with her beloved dog Audrey. Louise is a founding member of Hobart Insight Meditation and facilitates the Thursday night meditation sits.
Subhana Barzaghi is both a Zen & Insight Meditation teacher. She has a passion and dedication for meditative and contemplative practices of inquiry that have spanned 4 decades. She has been teaching Zen and Insight Buddhist meditation retreats since 1991 throughout Australia and New Zealand, is an authorised Zen Roshi in the Diamond Sangha and resident teacher of the Sydney Zen Centre and in the Insight tradition is founder of Kuan Yin Meditation Centre in Lismore and Blue Gum Sangha, Sydney.
Robyn Gibson has been studying and practicing meditation for over 25 years, and teaching in the Insight Meditation tradition since 2016. She also studied yoga in the Satyananda tradition for several years. She has facilitated sitting groups and managed retreats for many years, and was EO of Melbourne Insight Meditation for three years. Robyn’s teaching reflects her dedication to the dharma as taught by the Buddha, to our reconnection to and immersion in nature, and creative expression. Robyn lives on Dja Dja Wurrung country in Castlemaine, Victoria, working as an artist/printmaker, and facilitator of single- and multi-day meditation retreats and workshops.