Mary Aubry

Mary Aubry began meditating in the Vipassana tradition and attending insight meditation retreats in 1993. In 2009, she started teaching meditation classes for the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. and in 2012, graduated from the Community Dharma Leadership program co-sponsored by the Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the Insight Meditation Society.  In 2014, Tara Brach authorized Mary to teach insight meditation retreats, and in 2016 Leigh Brasington authorized her to teach jhana retreats. Other than Tara and Leigh, her primary teachers have included Joseph Goldstein, Bhikkhu Analayo, and Rodney Smith. In 2014-15, Mary co-taught a year-long program for IMCW on Aging, Illness, and Dying and developed IMCW’s True Refuge Program that offers trained meditation companions for the aging, ill, and dying and those who love and care for them.  Currently, Mary teaches meditation retreats nationally and internationally on insight, emptiness, the jhanas, and lovingkindness. Additionally, she offers personal meditative support to parents of deceased children, having lost her oldest son to cancer in 2015. Mary worked as a lawyer for the U.S. Department of Justice for 24 years before retiring in 2017 and moving to the mountains of Western North Carolina, where she lives in a meditation practice community near the Southern Dharma Retreat Center with her two very sweet Main Coon cats, Lucy and Desi.