Ronya Fakhoury Banks

Ronya Fakhoury Banks is founding teacher of Asheville Insight Meditation group in Asheville, North Carolina, has been a practicing meditator for 38 years, and also spent time as a Theravada Buddhist nun. She is a graduate of the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader program, with Jack Kornfield and Chanmyay Sayadaw as her primary teachers, and serves as a mentor for Jack’s Mindfulness Teacher training program with Tara Brach. Ronya works as a trauma-healing therapist, and has 25 years’ experience as a business consultant and entrepreneur. Born in Kuwait, she is Palestinian-American and comes from an Islamic faith background.