Sumedha (she/her) became interested in spiritual practice in her teens. After studying Comparative Religion at university, she practiced as a nun for 10 years in the Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah (based in the UK and for a short time in the US). After disrobing in 2010, she co-managed Dharmagiri Hermitage for a year and then co-founded Ekuthuleni retreat place in France, bringing together ecology, simple living and meditation. In 2020 she moved on from Ekuthuleni, but remains resident in France.
Sumedha is passionate about how we can reconnect with our deeper being through learning from nature itself – and how we bring that depth back into the world, in how we live and care about each other and the planet. She teaches in person retreats in Europe and the UK, and online programs with Sacred Mountain Sangha.
Events with Sumedha
Exploring & Reframing Our Sense of Being [Online]May 31 - June 21, 2026
Open to experienced and new practitioners Registration closes on May 30, 2026. If joining after this date, please contact us. With Buddha, Dharma and Sangha as our guides, this series explores re-cognizing and re-membering ourselves as part of a living, intelligent Earth and cosmos. By practicing to know ourselves differently, we uncover a sense of reverence for the Web of Life that opens us to the sacred, self-regenerative capacity of the biosphere we belong to. Changing from the ground up rather than from the head down will inform our ways of showing up in the world. In these four sessions…