About
Anushka Hauerstock is a mindfulness and meditation teacher affiliated with InsightLA. She has 18 years of training in traditional and secular meditation centers in India, Southeast Asia, and the West, and holds certification from the UCLA Mindfulness Research Center and InsightLA. She has been teaching since 2020. Hauerstock teaches groups of adults, children, and individuals in recovery from substance abuse. Her teaching combines Buddhist meditation techniques with contemporary mindfulness practices, drawing on Buddhist teachings and neuroscience. She holds a BA in Philosophy and Communication from Tel Aviv University and a Film Diploma from the Sam Spiegel Film & TV Academy in Jerusalem.
Teaching focus
Anushka Hauerstock's teaching focus, drawn from the source profile, sits in the Insight and Buddhist traditions. Several threads come up: steady attention to body and breath; the relationship between ethics and meditation; and short, direct teachings rather than long talks. On talks, the style is closer to thinking-along than presenting. Anushka Hauerstock works with whatever shows up in the room rather than reading from notes, which is part of why these talks land as conversational instead of scripted. Short pauses, longer sits, and questions that come back to direct experience are usual. Listed specialties on the source profile include beginners, stress, trauma. The bigger move Anushka Hauerstock keeps making is back toward attention itself: what's happening, how it's being held, and what gets in the way. That keeps the teaching close to practice rather than drifting into commentary about practice. For talks, schedules, and longer essays, the affiliated organization's page is where the live material lives. Anushka Hauerstock's sessions tend to keep returning to the body, to breath, and to the felt quality of attention as the steady ground that the rest rests on. Anushka Hauerstock's sessions tend to keep returning to the body, to breath, and to the felt quality of attention as the steady ground that the rest rests on.
Background
Anushka Hauerstock teaches in the Insight and Buddhist traditions. The teaching home is InsightLA. From the teacher's own profile: Anushka Hauerstock is a mindfulness and meditation teacher with 18 years of training in traditional and secular meditation centers across India, Southeast Asia, and the West. Certified by the UCLA Mindfulness Research Center and InsightLA, she has been teaching since 2020, guiding groups ranging from adults and children to individuals in recovery from substance abuse. She holds a BA in both Philosophy and Communication from Tel Aviv University, as well as a Film Diploma from the Sam Spiegel Film & TV Academy in Jerusalem. In her classes, Anushka combines traditional Buddhist techniques with modern mindfulness practices to help students ease physical tension and address compulsive thought and behavioral patterns. Her approach, grounded in Buddhist teachings and neuroscience, encourages simplicity, concentration, and creativity as pathways to clarity and joy in daily life. In the Insight stream Anushka Hauerstock works inside, the emphasis is on direct attention to body, feeling tone, and mind, alongside the brahmaviharas and an ongoing investigation of how clinging and aversion arise. Talks tend to be conversational rather than scripted, and there's room for sila and ethics to be talked about as part of practice rather than as a separate topic. Anushka Hauerstock's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Anushka Hauerstock's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Anushka Hauerstock's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Anushka Hauerstock's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Anushka Hauerstock's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Anushka Hauerstock's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography.
Lineage
Anushka Hauerstock teaches as a lay teacher in the Insight and Buddhist traditions. The institutional home, per the source listing, is InsightLA, and that's where most of the public teaching schedule and any retreat offerings will be posted. The Insight lineage in the West runs through teachers like Mahasi Sayadaw, U Ba Khin, Anagarika Munindra, and Dipa Ma into the founders of IMS, Spirit Rock, and the regional centers, and most contemporary Insight teachers position themselves somewhere in that broad family.
What to expect
On a class or retreat with Anushka Hauerstock, the basic shape is short instruction, longer sittings, and some Q&A. The container is shaped by InsightLA, so format details, fees, and access policies follow that organization's norms. Expect plenty of silence, less talking-at-you than you might think, and an emphasis on letting the practice do its work rather than chasing experiences. For exact dates, registration, and any sliding-scale or scholarship information, There's usually a short Q&A window and, on retreats, optional teacher interviews where students can bring specific questions about their practice. There's usually a short Q&A window and, on retreats, optional teacher interviews where students can bring specific questions about their practice.
