Willa Blythe Baker
Willa Blythe Baker, Ph.D. is the Founder of Natural Dharma Fellowship in Boston, MA. She also serves as Lama, Founding Teacher, Spiritual Co-Director at it’s retreat center Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in Springfield, NH.
She was authorized as a dharma teacher and lineage holder in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism after twelve years of monastic training and two consecutive three-year retreats. She also has trained in the Nyingma and Shangpa lineages.
Publications
Articles & Interviews
Embodiment– While the way we live as humans has—for many of us—become less embodied, there is much the body can teach the mind.
Podcasts & Video
- Somatic Primer Podcast with Bryson Newell – The Wakeful Body, Somatic Mindfulness
- Think Act Be Podcast – Easing into the Natural Wakefulness of the Physical Body
- Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris
- Mind and Life with Wendy Hasenkamp PhD
- Noble Mind with Katerine King PsyD
- Spirit Matters Talk with Philip Goldberg and Dennis Raimondi
- Middle Way Initiative with Elizabeth Mattis Namgyal – Lama Willa Part I – Deep Dive with Lama Willa
- Middle Way Initiative with Elizabeth Mattis Namgyal – Lama Willa Part II – A Students Sacred Outlook
- Sit, Breathe, Bow – The Body is the Divine Door to Wakefulness
- Women Awakening Project
- Sangha Live Sunday Sangha Teachings
- Abuse by Buddhist Teachers: Understanding it, Surviving It (Part One)
- Lama Willa and Damcho explore ways to address situations of abuse in Buddhist communities
- Experiencias dolorosas que construyen sabiduría (Part One with Spanish subtitles)
- Survivor’s Psychology: Abuse by Buddhist Teachers (Part Two)
- Lama Willa and Damcho continue their dialogue about naming, addressing and preventing abuse in Buddhist communities
- Ver el sufrimiento para despertar – Entrevista (Part Two with Spanish subtitles)
- MIT News: Buddhist Lecture Series
- Council for the Uncertain Human Future (CUHF)
- Yab Yum Symbolism, Heteronormativity, and Translating Sexual Yoga
