Sally Kempton, also known as Durgananda, is recognized as a powerful meditation guide, as a down-to-earth spiritual teacher who integrates yogic philosophy with daily life, and as an inner explorer who for more than 20 years has inspired students to make breakthroughs in their own practice.
Sally teaches workshops, trainings and retreats in meditation and spiritual wisdom, and writes a column for Yoga Journal that helps readers apply spiritual principles to real-life challenges. A specialist in working with subtle energies, she is known for creating a joyful and supportive atmosphere in which students feel safe in moving to deeper levels of mind and heart. Sally has also appeared as a guest on Ken Wilber's Integral Naked website.
Her liberating approach to meditation practice is evident in her book, The Heart of Meditation: Pathways to a Deeper Experience, an on-the-mat guide to deepening meditation. The book presents principles and practices for opening gateways to the inner world. It offers detailed guidance through the subtle terrain of meditation, and practical methods for living from the heart while integrating spiritual insight with daily life.
"Sally Kempton is a powerfully insightful and eloquent teacher who fully embodies the spiritual wisdom she teaches," says Anusara Yoga founder John Friend. "Along with her deep knowledge of eastern philosophy, based on 30 years of study and practice, she has the rare capacity to guide students into the very heart of meditation. Just being in Sally's presence can be a life-changing, transformative experience."
"Meditation is not just a practice. Meditation is a natural state. It's an actual channel in our consciousness, a bandwidth of tranquility, energy and joy that reveals itself when we learn to pay attention. Once you discover how to tune yourself to the meditation bandwidth, it will empower your life from within."
Sally Kempton
