Keren has been immersed in Buddhist practice since 1997, practicing with variety of teachers in Asia and the West. Keren also holds a PhD in Buddhist Studies.
Keren teaches workshops and retreats on mindfulness and insight meditation (vipassana), loving kindness (metta) and Buddhist wisdom at the Israeli Insight Meditation Society (“Tovana”). She is a co-founder and a teacher at “Nalanda“: an Israeli Buddhist institute dedicated to contemplative study of the Buddhist path.
In her dharma practice she is drawn to periods of seclusion and intensive practice. Since 2010 Keren dedicates two months each year for intensive solitary silent retreats.
In her practice and teaching she has a special interest in finding ways to bring depth practice into daily life and deepen our freedom as lay practitioners.
Keren published two books: one is an annotated Hebrew translation of collection of Suttas from the original Pali into Hebrew.
Her second book Early Buddhist Meditation: the Four Jhanas as the actualization of Insight (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) explores the relation between the four jhanas and the practice of insight (March 2017).
In 2024 her book on the jhanas was published in Hebrew.
For Keren's Dharma talks collection on Spotify, click here.
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