Lisa Ernst
Lisa Ernst (she/her) is a meditation teacher, artist and founder of One Dharma Nashville. In her teaching, Lisa emphasizes both transformational insight and everyday awakening as an invitation to embrace all of the path’s possibilities. Lisa has been meditating for nearly 30 years in the Zen and Vipassana traditions. She received dharma teaching authorization in the Thai Forest lineage of Ajahn Chah, Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman. Lisa offers meditation training, classes and workshops and leads retreats nationally. She is a visiting teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre California.
Upcoming Programs by Lisa Ernst
Finding Peace where You Are: The Art of Unburdening the Heart
The Buddha’s path to liberation is designed to help us face the full experience of embodied human life. Through deep practices of mindfulness, concentration, and emptiness, we can cultivate clear states of mind that naturally allow inner peace and insight to emerge. We will also learn to bring acceptance, patience and love for ourselves into […]
Kwan Yin and Embodying Deep Wisdom and Compassion: A Retreat for Women
During these increasingly uncertain and challenging times, it is vital to pause, replenish ourselves and find strength and connection in practice and community. By calling forth Kwan Yin, the bodhisattva of compassion, we access our own inherent capacity for compassion for self and others. This mostly silent retreat will offer a space for women to […]
Sashay Away From The Fray: Finding True Refuge Amongst the Defiantly Fabulous
In a time when hostility towards so many of our communities is on the rise, finding true refuge isn’t just about escape—it’s about cultivating unshakable inner strength and peace. This LGBTQIA+ Vipassana meditation retreat offers a space of radical acceptance where we can turn inward, reconnect with ourselves, and find solace in community. Through guided […]