Mamata Misra is certified to teach Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) both In Person and Live Online, and has been teaching various mindfulness classes in Austin, Texas since 2016. She was trained to teach MBSR by the UMASS Center For Mindfulness, Mindfulness Center at Brown University, and East Coast Mindfulness. She has lived in Austin, Texas since 1974, where she has worked as a software engineer, a peer counselor and advocate for victims and survivors of family violence, a community educator, and a director of a non-profit before being a mindfulness teacher. Now, she teaches Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and other mindfulness classes in Austin, Texas during Fall and Spring. In Summer, she attends residential silent mindfulness retreats. She stays committed to her personal practice.
Her teaching aligns with the following ethos:
Mamata's Continuing Learning Path:
Residential Retreats and Study Programs After Certification
Her teaching aligns with the following ethos:
- Do no harm.
- Recognize the inherent wholeness in each human being, complete as they are.
- Understand that knowledge and wisdom reside in the body as well as in the mind and cognition.
- Foster a presence and stance of inclusivity and welcome.
Mamata's Continuing Learning Path:
Residential Retreats and Study Programs After Certification
- Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue Retreat For People of Color (6 days) with Tuere Sala and Peace Twesigye (August 1-6, 2025)
- Emptiness: Seeing that Frees silent retreat (6 days) with Tuere Sala and Yahel Avigur at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (August 8-13, 2025)
- Emptiness: A yearlong Online Study Program on "Seeing That Frees" (based on a book by Rob Burbea) with Tuere Sala and Brian Lesage, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (August 2024 - July 2025)
- Insight, Awareness, and the Nine Bodies of Consciousness: (8 days) with Phillip Moffitt and Tuere Sala, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, CA (June 7-14, 2024)
- Concentration and Awareness: (18 days) with Guy Armstrong and Sally Armstrong, and other teachers at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center, CA (July 5-23, 2023)
- Concentration and Awareness: (18 days) with Guy Armstrong, Phillip Moffit, and other teachers at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center, CA (August 2021)
- Compassionate Action: the Fierce Heart in Challenging Times, Daylong retreat with Sharon Salzberg, Online (March 6, 2021)
- 5-day Online Winter Solstice Insight Meditation Retreat with Donald Rothberg and other teachers, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, CA (December 2020)
- Antidote to Shame: An online workshop (6 hours) with Christopher Germer, Center for Mindful Self-Compassion (November 2023)
- Mindfulness as a Love Affair with Life: Catalyzing Wisdom, Healing, and Transformation in a time of COVID-19, 4 sessions with Jon Kabat-Zinn and the world-wide family of MBSR teachers, Online with Center for Mindfulness, Ireland (2020-2021)
- 5-weeks (72 hours) of Train to Teach MBSR Live Online course and Certification to teach MBSR Live Online, East Coast Mindfulness (April-May 2020)
- Completion of MBSR Teacher Assessment and Certification with Mindfulness Center at Brown University (April 2020)
- Completion of MBSR Teacher - Training Level 2 with Mindfulness Center at Brown with 10 mentorship sessions with Bob Stahl (Fall 2019)
- 7-day residential Insight Meditation Retreat: Grief, Joy, and Awakening with David Chernikoff, held in Shambala Mountain Center, Red Feather Lake, CO (July 24-30, 2019)
- 8-day residential MBSR in Mind-Body Medicine with UMass Center for Mindfulness, held in Rhinebeck, NY (2018)
- 8-day residential MBSR Practice Teaching Intensive with UMass Center for Mindfulness, held in Petaluma, CA (March 2017)
- 10-day residential Summer Insight Retreat with Joseph Goldstein, Kamala Masters, and other teachers at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, CA (July 2017)
- 9-day residential MBSR Practicum with UMass Center for Mindfulness, held in Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Spring 2016).
- 5-day residential Mindful Way Retreat with Beth Mulligan and Jon Aaron at Copper Beech Institute, West Hartford, Connecticut (Fall 2016)
- 8-week MBSR as observer/participant with Geeta Cowlagi, Joyful Living, Austin, TX (Summer 2016)
- 10-day residential Fall Insight Retreat with Jack Kornfield, Trudy Goodman, and other teachers at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, CA (October 2015)
- 8-week MBSR training with Geeta Cowlagi, Joyful Living, Austin, TX (Fall 2014)
- Personal meditation practice since 2007
- Personal yoga practice in Bihar School of Yoga tradition since 1995
- Self-study of Vedantic texts with a peer group, following Arsha Vidya Gurukulam's home-study program, and attending discourses and retreats in Austin, TX and other cities by various visiting Vedanta and yoga teachers (1989- 2013)
