Kiranasri
Kiranasri (she/her) learned to meditate as a teenager and has been practising the Dharma in the context of Triratna for fifteen years. Her name means “She who has the radiance of a moonbeam, (of Bodhicitta, the awakening heart)”. She has had a strong connection with Vajraloka for ten years and been part of the Vajraloka Teaching Mandala supporting retreats since 2023. She has a particular interest in exploring the interplay of metta, relaxation and insight.
Kiranasri lives in northeast London with her husband and daughter and works as a relational integrative psychotherapist. She is a member of the London Buddhist Centre teaching community, teaching meditation and Buddhism and co-leading retreats.
Events with Kiranasri
Embodying LoveOctober 9 - 18, 2026
Metta is seen as a great potential source of happiness in the Buddhist tradition – an openness to and love of life in all its forms – which spontaneously manifests as compassion and joy. Yet the cultivation of metta can sometimes seem very ‘heady’, at times forced and dry. How can our practice of kindly awareness gain fresh inspiration? On this retreat, we will explore opening to metta as an innate quality of our body, heart and being – literally embodying love. Becoming and being truly embodied is not just a preliminary practice, but integral to the whole path. We will look at…