Ven. Viraῆani began practising meditation in 1979. In 2003, after several years of teaching at the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, USA, and training in the Thai Forest tradition, she embarked on a four-year period devoted to intensive practice in the Burmese lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw.
She received permanent ordination in Burma under Sayadaw U Panditabhivamsa in 2006 and now resides at the Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre, north of Yangon. She teaches Metta and Vipassana meditation in Burma, Europe, and Australia.
In 2008, she co-founded Metta In Action, a charitable organisation that provides disadvantaged people in Burma with the resources and skills to help themselves.
She is deeply passionate about the Dhamma and Nature, and about how both can help us discover the inherent goodness within every being.
