About
Grace Fisher is a meditation teacher and psychotherapist based in Colorado and online. She trained in the Insight tradition through Spirit Rock's Community Dharma Leaders program, where she served as Staff Dharma Teacher. Fisher holds an MFT, JD, and MEd from Stanford. She maintains a psychotherapy practice and teaches a weekly online women's meditation class through Spirit Rock, along with classes in Colorado venues. Her clinical training includes Somatic Experiencing and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy. She has over 25 years of meditation practice.
Teaching focus
Grace Fisher'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. Online teaching is treated as its own form, with attention to what works in that medium rather than as a downscaled version of in-person work. Across the body of work, the consistent thread in Grace Fisher'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. 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
Grace Fisher is a meditation teacher and psychotherapist based in Colorado and online. She trained in the Insight tradition through Spirit Rock's Community Dharma Leaders program, where she served as Staff Dharma Teacher. Fisher holds an MFT, JD, and MEd from Stanford. She maintains a psychotherapy practice and teaches a weekly online women's meditation class through Spirit Rock, along with classes in Colorado venues. Her clinical training includes Somatic Experiencing and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy. She has over 25 years of meditation practice. Grace is a former lawyer who holds a Masters in Education from Stanford. She graduated from the Community Dharma Leaders training program at Spirit Rock, where she was also the Staff Dharma teacher for many years, and a former member of the Teen and Family Councils. Currently, Grace teaches a weekly online women's class through Spirit Rock and teaches in different venues in Colorado. She is committed to exploring how the teachings support us navigating the gritty, the challenging, and the beautiful. We are wired for connectivity. So what can we do to clear through and release that which keeps us from really belonging to ourselves? Grace Fisher'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 women, relationships, online. The voice in Grace Fisher'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 Grace Fisher'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 Grace Fisher'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 Grace Fisher'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 Grace Fisher'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
Grace Fisher teaches within the Insight Meditation lineage that grew from Burmese vipassana through teachers like Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, and Jack Kornfield. She graduated from the Community Dharma Leaders training program at Spirit Rock, where she was also the Staff Dharma teacher for many years, and a former member of the Teen and Family Councils. Currently, Grace teaches a weekly online women's class through Spirit Rock and teaches in different venues in Colorado. She is committed to exploring how the teachings support us navigating the gritty, the challenging, and the beautiful. Current affiliation runs through Spirit Rock. Grace Fisher teaches as a lay practitioner rather than from a monastic role.
What to expect
In Grace Fisher'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.
