Jaya (Karen) Rudgard began meditating in 1984, and from 1996 to 2005 was ordained as a nun in the Thai forest tradition in England at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery. She subsequently trained as an Insight Meditation teacher in the USA with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein and has led meditation retreats and courses in the UK and internationally since 2014.
For more information on Jaya’s work with the OMF, please see here: https://oxfordmindfulness.org/people/jaya-rudgard/