About
Djuna Devereaux teaches the integration of yoga and Buddhist Dharma. She has over twenty years of teaching experience and is a core teacher and Board Chair for Sacred Mountain Sangha, supporting primary teachers Thanissara and Kittisaro. She teaches retreats and leads Dharma and Yoga Teacher Trainings at Spirit Rock. Devereaux is also faculty for Prajna Yoga and works as a certified yoga therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in private practice. Her teaching combines asana, somatic movement, biomechanics, and Buddhist teachings.
Teaching focus
Djuna Devereaux'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. Trauma-informed teaching shows up as pacing, as explicit consent for difficult material, and as a willingness to abandon the schedule when a practitioner needs that more than the next instruction. The teaching is shaped by the silent-retreat container, with the long arcs and the sustained quiet that container makes possible. Across the body of work, the consistent thread in Djuna Devereaux'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
Djuna Devereaux teaches the integration of yoga and Buddhist Dharma. She has over twenty years of teaching experience and is a core teacher and Board Chair for Sacred Mountain Sangha, supporting primary teachers Thanissara and Kittisaro. She teaches retreats and leads Dharma and Yoga Teacher Trainings at Spirit Rock. Devereaux is also faculty for Prajna Yoga and works as a certified yoga therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in private practice. Her teaching combines asana, somatic movement, biomechanics, and Buddhist teachings. Djuna is also faculty for Prajna Yoga, offering events internationally, and is a certified yoga therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in private practice. Djuna weaves asana training, with somatic movement, biomechanics, and the wisdom of the Buddha Dharma, into her offerings. Her sessions are intelligently crafted to cultivate embodied awareness, strength, and mobility, while supporting the body’s innate capacity to heal. As a long-time Dharma practitioner, she approaches the asanas as vehicles of insight, inviting us to awaken to present moment experience through the intelligence of the body. August 9 - August 14, 2026 | Sunday - Friday | 5 nights Spaces Still Available! How do we stay rooted like a mighty oak when the winds of life blow strong? Djuna Devereaux's teaching is anchored at Spirit Rock. 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 retreat, trauma. The voice in Djuna Devereaux'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 Djuna Devereaux'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 Djuna Devereaux'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 Djuna Devereaux'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 Djuna Devereaux'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
Djuna Devereaux teaches within the Insight Meditation lineage that grew from Burmese vipassana through teachers like Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Jack Kornfield. Djuna Devereaux has more than two decades of experience teaching the integration of yoga and Buddhist Dharma. At Spirit Rock, she teaches on retreat and leads the Dharma and Yoga Teacher Trainings. She supports her primary Dharma teachers, Thanissara and Kittisaro, as a core teacher and Board Chair for Sacred Mountain Sangha. Djuna weaves asana training, with somatic movement, biomechanics, and the wisdom of the Buddha Dharma, into her offerings. Current affiliation runs through Spirit Rock. Djuna Devereaux teaches as a fully ordained monastic.
What to expect
On retreat with Djuna Devereaux you'll get long sits, walking practice, and dharma talks that build on each other across days. The container is silent or near-silent, which gives the teaching room to land in a way that single classes can't quite reach. 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. Pacing is trauma-informed, which means slow when slow is needed and explicit invitations to titrate intensity rather than push through. The atmosphere is grounded rather than performative, and practitioners tend to leave with practical ground to keep working from on their own.
