Suzie Brown is based in Australia and is the founder of the Melbourne Insight Meditation group. She has been teaching Insight meditation for the past eight years in the lineage of her Australian teachers Subhana Barzaghi and Carol Perry, as well as American Insight teacher, James Baraz, with whom she has done teacher training. Suzie is also trained as a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher and has been teaching MBSR courses and workshops for over 10 years.
Apart from general community courses, she has specialized in teaching mindful parenting, mindfulness for anxiety, and mindfulness for chronic pain—all themes that relate to her personal experience. Suzie also enjoys teaching the themes of the Buddha’s four divine abodes: lovingkindness, appreciative joy, compassion, and equanimity. She has also worked as a climate and environmental activist for two decades and teaches ecodharma and mindful approaches to dealing with climate anxiety and grief.