Heather Martin
Heather Martin has agreed to be our guiding teacher on a regular basis. As well as teaching several non-residential retreats in Victoria each year she leads a study group that meets every 4 to 6 weeks as Heather’s schedule permits.
Heather has lived on Salt Spring Island for 30 years. She makes her living by teaching the dharma mostly up and down the West Coast, from Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Northern California, to Portland, Oregon; Cloud Mountain Retreat center, southern Washington State; Seattle, Bellingham, Samish Island, and Port Townsend, Washington State; Victoria, and other communities ‘up island’ in B.C. She is also the guiding teacher for the Salt Spring Vipassana Community, and the sanghas in both Bellingham and on Samish Island. She teaches from time to time at the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts.
Heather has been meditating since 1972, and practicing Vipassana since 1981. Beginning with S.N. Goenka, she has since been influenced by both Burmese and Thai streams of the Theravada tradition, and by Tibetan Dzogchen with Tsoknyi Rinpoche. Most recently she has been studying with Burmese Sayadaw U Tejaniya. Her practical and wholehearted approach embodies ease and joy, while grounded in realism. She has been leading retreats in Canada and the US since 2001. She worked for 20 years as a midwife, and lives on Salt Spring Island, off the south coast of B.C.
You can listen to and download some of Heather’s talks from the Salt Spring Vipassana Community site.
