About
Rosamaría Segura teaches mindfulness in Spanish and English, focusing on communities with limited access to meditation practices. She is authorized to teach in the Theravada Buddhist tradition by Trudy Goodman and studies Soto Zen with Jokai Blackwell Roshi. Segura integrates guided and silent meditation with nature-based elements. She collaborates with nonprofits, public schools, and Buddhist meditation centers. In addition to teaching mindfulness, she works as a death doula, providing support to individuals with terminal illness and those experiencing early grief. She completed Buddhist chaplaincy training at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies and end-of-life doula training through INELDA. She is affiliated with InsightLA and Kincentric Leadership. Her background includes decades of community organizing focused on immigrant and refugee rights, healthcare access, and workers' rights.
Teaching focus
Rosamaría Segura's teaching focus, drawn from the source profile, sits in the Theravada and Zen traditions. Several threads come up: compassion training that doesn't collapse into pity or burnout; grief and loss as practice doorways rather than detours; and death and dying as a practice context. On talks, the style is closer to thinking-along than presenting. Rosamaría Segura 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 grief, beginners. The bigger move Rosamaría Segura 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. Rosamaría Segura'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. Rosamaría Segura'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
Rosamaría Segura teaches in the Theravada and Zen traditions. The teaching home is InsightLA. From the teacher's own profile: Rosamaría is committed to teaching mindfulness to communities with limited access to these practices. Her approach integrates guided and silent meditation alongside elements of nature, fostering well-being and spiritual healing. Offering classes in both Spanish and English, Rosamaría collaborates with non-profit organizations, public schools, and meditation centers dedicated to Buddhist teachings. In addition to her mindfulness teaching, Rosamaría serves as a death doula, providing compassionate care to individuals facing terminal illness, navigating end-of-life transitions, and supporting those experiencing early grief. Rosamaría has received dharma teaching authorization from Trudy Goodman in the Theravada Buddhist tradition and continues her studies in Soto Zen under Jokai Blackwell Roshi. She has completed the Buddhist Introduction to Chaplaincy Training at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies and End-of-Life Doula Training with the International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA). She is also a member of the Kincentric Leadership, an organization dedicated to uplifting Indigenous traditions and the human interconnectedness with the more-than-human world. With decades of experience in community organizing, Rosamaría has long advocated for immigrant and refugee civil rights, equitable healthcare access for workers, and workers’ rights. Her academic background includes an MA in Geography, a BA in Cultural Geography and Urban Analysis, and an AA in Human Services and Psychology. Rosamaría se dedica a la enseñanza de presencia plena (mindfulness) a comunidades con acceso limitado a estas prácticas. Su enfoque integra meditación guiada y silenciosa, junto con elementos de la naturaleza, fomentando el bienestar y la sanación espiritual. Ofreciendo clases tanto en español como en inglés, Rosamaría colabora con organizaciones sin fines de lucro, escuelas públicas y centros de meditación dedicados a las enseñanzas budistas. Además de su enseñanza de mindfulness, Rosamaría se desempeña como doula de la muerte, brindando cuidado compasivo a personas que enfrentan enfermedades terminales, acompañando las transiciones de fin de vida y apoyando a quienes experimentan el duelo temprano. Rosamaría ha recibido la autorización para enseñar el Dharma de parte de Trudy Goodman en la tradición budista Theravada, y continúa sus estudios en Soto Zen bajo la guía de Jokai Blackwell Roshi. Ha completado la formación en Introducción al Capellanía Budista en el Sati Center for Buddhist Studies y la formación como Doula de Fin de Vida con la International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA). In the Insight stream Rosamaría Segura 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.
Lineage
Rosamaría Segura teaches as a lay teacher in the Theravada and Zen 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 Rosamaría Segura, 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.
