Instructor

Linda Modaro is the founder and lead teacher at Sati Sangha, a vibrant online meditation community that offers daily virtual meditation sittings, online retreats and in-person retreats throughout the year. Linda began teaching Buddhist meditation in 2008 after she completed her intensive training for meditation and dharma teaching in Recollective Awareness Meditation with Jason Siff. Previously, she had a thriving acupuncture practice in Santa Monica, California, for more than 20 years. A master of Qi Gong, Linda also created a best-selling, four-part instructive Qi Gong video series called Discovering Chi: Energy Exercises (offered freely on the Sati Sangha website). Now teaching Reflective Meditation, Linda and Sati Sangha collaborate with Nelly Kaufer of Pine Street Sangha to creatively evolve the practice and the ways it is offered. After receiving two grants from the Hemera Foundation to design a curriculum for Healthy Buddhist Communities, the online course Ethical Reflecting was born. It is open to all Buddhist meditation and Mindfulness meditation teachers, and peer group meditation leaders who want to explore their ethical concerns and dilemmas and address power dynamics that arise within communities. She is accountable to a Council, her mentees, and her students as well as to a peer group of teachers – Nelly Kaufer, Anna Markey, and Jenny Taylor. Her self-care includes hiking in nature with her family and friends, singing, reading, and individual therapy.