Knee Deep in Grace: The Extraordinary Life and Teaching of Dipa Ma
Amy Schmidt is a resident teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA. She has practiced vipassana meditation for nineteen years. For the past five years, she has also practiced Centering Prayer and attends Contemplative Outreach retreats at Snomass Monastery (Trappist) in CO, under the guidance of Father Thomas Keating. Amy is a co-founder of Southwest Sangha, a contemplative practice self-retreat center in southern NM.A licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience in the field of aging, Amy worked as a research analyst at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, and is co-author of the manual "Understanding Alzheimer's: A Guide for Families, Friends, and Health Care Providers" (University of WA Press, 1993). She currently teaches for the Lineage Project, a program offering meditation classes to incarcerated and paroled teens in NYC.Amy is a cartoonist for the book "Buddha Laughing" (Crown, 1999) and a contributing author to "Women's Buddhism, Buddhism's Women" (Wisdom Publications, 2000)