About
Roxanne Dault is a meditation teacher in the Meditation tradition.
Teaching focus
Dault's teaching follows the broad Insight Meditation arc: mindfulness of breath, body, feeling tone, and mental states, met with metta as a steady undercurrent. Her recorded talks often spend time on the relational side of practice, the way kindness toward oneself extends, almost mechanically, into less reactive contact with others. She works carefully with students around the body. Posture, breath, and physical pain get patient attention rather than being treated as obstacles to push past. There's also a clear thread of bilingual practice in her work; she teaches comfortably in both French and English, and that crossing between languages tends to slow her teaching down in a way that helps students hear instructions twice, once for the words and once for the meaning. She's not a flashy talker. The talks unfold at a domestic pace, like conversations, and the most useful moments often come not in the framing but in small asides about practice in daily life. Students who like conceptual elaboration may find her sparse; students looking for grounded, practical insight teaching tend to settle in. Loving-kindness, equanimity, and the steady noticing of impermanence run through most of the recorded material.
Background
Roxanne Dault is a Canadian Insight Meditation teacher whose recorded archive on Dharma Seed runs to roughly three dozen talks across a dozen retreats, much of it gathered through her work in the True North Insight community in Quebec and other Canadian and US insight centers. Public material about her training points to the lay-teacher path that runs through Spirit Rock and the wider IMS network, and her bilingual French and English teaching has helped widen access to insight practice in Francophone Canada. Her style on retreat tends to be quiet and unforced, with a willingness to sit in a question rather than rush an answer. She's worked extensively with practitioners coming into meditation later in life and with students whose first language isn't English. Her own site at roxannedault.com publishes retreat schedules and resources for ongoing students. The talks themselves are short and unshowy, the kind of recorded material that benefits from being listened to in sequence rather than skimmed. She's a steady presence in the smaller-scale Canadian insight scene and a useful first stop for any French-speaking practitioner looking for retreat teaching in their own language alongside English-language sittings. Beyond what's in the recorded archive and her own website, biographical detail is light, and rather than guess, this page leans on tradition and style of practice rather than personal history.
Lineage
Dault teaches in the Insight Meditation lineage transmitted to the West through Spirit Rock, IMS, and Insight Meditation Center. She's affiliated with True North Insight, a Canadian insight network with retreat centers in Quebec, and teaches at retreat centers in both Canada and the US. She works as a lay teacher and offers her teaching in French as well as English, which is unusual in the larger English-language insight world.
What to expect
Retreats with Dault tend to follow a classical insight schedule of sittings, walking, dharma talks, and meetings with the teachers, but with a softer pace than some larger retreat centers. Bilingual sessions in French and English are common, and the slower flow that creates is intentional rather than awkward. Expect talks that meander productively, time to bring practice questions in person, and a community feel rather than an institutional one. The Canadian insight scene she works within is smaller and more intimate than its US counterpart, which often means more direct access to the teachers across a retreat.