About
Ashleigh Enriquez was introduced to meditation as a child through a friend and developed her practice through self-study before joining the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. She began teaching mindfulness in corporate and private settings in 2012 and co-founded the Young Adult Sangha in 2017. She teaches sanghas, small groups, and individuals, with a focus on parents, children, young adults, and people with chronic pain. She was completing the MMTCP program as of 2023.
Teaching focus
Ashleigh Enriquez's teaching focus sits inside the Insight Meditation lineage that grew from Burmese vipassana through teachers like Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Jack Kornfield, with insight meditation (vipassana) as the working ground. The Insight Meditation lineage carries forward the Burmese vipassana teaching as it took root in the West through teachers like Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Jack Kornfield. That means mindfulness held at the center, with metta and the broader brahmaviharas as steady companions, and a household-friendly framing that doesn't require ordination or extreme retreat conditions. For practitioners with persistent physical difficulty, the instruction is built so that practice doesn't depend on a body that can sit still for an hour. Pain is approached as practice material, with care. Working with stress isn't treated as the entry-level version of the dharma. It's where most practitioners actually start, and the teaching takes that starting point seriously. Across the body of work, the consistent thread in Ashleigh Enriquez's teaching is the refusal to let practice become abstract. The instruction asks for direct contact with what's actually arising, and the framing supports practitioners in giving it that. Recurring questions in the teaching include how to keep practice honest across years, how to hold difficulty without bypassing it, and how the dharma actually shows up in ordinary life rather than only on the cushion.
Background
Ashleigh Enriquez was introduced to meditation as a child through a friend and developed her practice through self-study before joining the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. She began teaching mindfulness in corporate and private settings in 2012 and co-founded the Young Adult Sangha in 2017. She teaches sanghas, small groups, and individuals, with a focus on parents, children, young adults, and people with chronic pain. She was completing the MMTCP program as of 2023. In 2017 she co-founded the Young Adult Sangha. She currently teaches sanghas, small groups, and individuals. With special focus working with moms, children, young adults, and those with chronic pain. Ashleigh will graduate from the MMTCP program in Feb 2023. Ashleigh facilitates meditation groups and teaches mindfulness in a wide variety of settings. She finds inspiration from life, nature, and a wide variety of spiritual teachers. Ashleigh Enriquez's teaching is anchored at Insight Meditation Community of Washington. The teaching draws from the Insight Meditation lineage that grew from Burmese vipassana through teachers like Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Jack Kornfield, with insight meditation (vipassana) as the working ground. Areas of particular focus include chronic pain, stress. The voice in Ashleigh Enriquez's teaching is recognizably in the Insight Meditation lineage, warm without being soft, and willing to sit with the difficult places practice opens. Mindfulness, loving-kindness, and the gradual accumulation of insight are the working vocabulary. Practitioners drawn to Ashleigh Enriquez's teaching tend to be people who've already noticed that practice is a long arc, not a quick fix, and who want a teacher who treats it that way. Practitioners drawn to Ashleigh Enriquez's teaching tend to be people who've already noticed that practice is a long arc, not a quick fix, and who want a teacher who treats it that way. Practitioners drawn to Ashleigh Enriquez's teaching tend to be people who've already noticed that practice is a long arc, not a quick fix, and who want a teacher who treats it that way. Practitioners drawn to Ashleigh Enriquez's teaching tend to be people who've already noticed that practice is a long arc, not a quick fix, and who want a teacher who treats it that way. Practitioners drawn to Ashleigh Enriquez's teaching tend to be people who've already noticed that practice is a long arc, not a quick fix, and who want a teacher who treats it that way. Practitioners drawn to Ashleigh Enriquez's teaching tend to be people who've already noticed that practice is a long arc, not a quick fix, and who want a teacher who treats it that way.
Lineage
Ashleigh Enriquez teaches within the Insight Meditation lineage that grew from Burmese vipassana through teachers like Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Jack Kornfield. Seeking more community and understanding of the teachings, she joined the Insight community and attended several classes, groups, residential and non-residential retreats. In 2012, Ashleigh began teaching mindfulness in the corporate and private setting and facilitating Spiritual Friends Groups. She currently teaches sanghas, small groups, and individuals. Ashleigh will graduate from the MMTCP program in Feb 2023. Ashleigh facilitates meditation groups and teaches mindfulness in a wide variety of settings. Current affiliation runs through Insight Meditation Community of Washington. Ashleigh Enriquez teaches as a lay practitioner rather than from a monastic role.
What to expect
In Ashleigh Enriquez's online programs, expect guided sittings, structured teaching segments, and group discussion that takes the medium seriously rather than treating it as a fallback. Sittings are conventional, mindfulness of breath and body, with metta and inquiry into difficult mind-states woven through. There's space for questions, and the answers don't get rushed. The atmosphere is grounded rather than performative, and practitioners tend to leave with practical ground to keep working from on their own. The atmosphere is grounded rather than performative, and practitioners tend to leave with practical ground to keep working from on their own. The atmosphere is grounded rather than performative, and practitioners tend to leave with practical ground to keep working from on their own.
