Amma Thanasanti has practiced meditation for over 45 years and has been teaching since 1989. She spent 26 years as a Theravada Buddhist nun, including 20 years in Ajahn Chah monasteries. Her teachers have included Dipa Ma, Ajahn Chah, and the Dalai Lama.
She is the Spiritual Director of Awakening Truth and founded the Integrated Meditation Program (IMP), which brings attachment repair and trauma-informed tools to address baseline patterns that meditation alone may not shift. She also developed the SHINE meditation practice, which helps practitioners access positive states to build resilience alongside working with difficult emotions. She is currently writing a book on anger from a trauma-informed Buddhist perspective.
Thanasanti teaches nationally and is committed to making dharma practice accessible, healing, and transformative for diverse practitioners. Her teaching integrates profound insight experiences, early Buddhist teachings, nature-based wisdom, and embodied knowing.