A senior teacher in Insight Meditation, trained by Jack Kornfield of Spirit Rock and Joseph Goldstein of IMS, Heather began teaching meditation in 1999. Beginning her own meditation practice in her late teens, for twenty years Heather has studied with senior teachers in the Insight Meditation (Vipassana) and Tibetan (Vajrayana) traditions, and has sat 1-3 months of retreat a year for the last 15 years. She teaches classes, daylongs, and retreats nationally, especially for Mountain Stream and Spirit Rock.