Jaya’s dharma discovery began as a teenager in the 1980s. She later spent 8 years as a nun in the Thai Forest tradition with Ven Ajahn Sumedho. She is a graduate of the Spirit Rock and IMS Insight Meditation four year teacher training led by Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein and teaches insight meditation and mindfulness in the UK and internationally. She lives in Oxford England, where she leads a weekly sitting group for Oxford Insight Meditation and is an Associate of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre.