Lynne Bousfield has been studying and practicing Buddhist meditation for more than 30 years having commenced in BodhGaya, India in the mid 1970’s. Since 1980 she has returned to Burma regularly to undertake intensive practice and develop her understanding of meditation and Buddhist psychology. She helped establish Vipassana Meditation in Australia and was a co-founder of the Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre (BMIMC).

Lynne is a clinical psychologist practising in Sydney since 1992. She was responsible for introducing insight meditation into pain management at a major teaching hospital in Sydney where she continues clinical consultation. Lynne actively incorporates meditation into her general clinical work with clients with a range of difficulties. Her emphasis in her clinical work is on the application of meditative practice as a means of understanding and transforming suffering into the foundation for insight.

Lynne is regularly invited to speak and present on her clinical work at national and international psychology conferences. She teaches meditation classes in Sydney as well as annual retreats with Steven Smith in Australia and New Zealand and with Steven and Michele McDonald in Canada.