Ayya Anandabodhi is co-founder of Aloka Vihara, a training monastery for women in San Francisco, where she currently resides. She has practiced meditation since 1989, and lived as part of the Ajahn Chah lineage at Amaravati and Chithurst monasteries for 18 years. In 2009 she moved to the US and took full bhikkhuni ordination in 2011.
