Singhaśūrī

Dh. Singhaśūrī (Lona Kovacs) has been involved in the Triratna Buddhist Order, Aryaloka and Portsmouth Buddhist Center Sangha’s since 2001. She was ordained in 2022 at Akashavana Retreat Center, on a 3-month ordination retreat in the mountains of Spain. She has been a yoga and meditation practitioner for over 30 years and on the teaching team for yoga and meditation retreats at Aryaloka since 2001. She owned and operated a School of Ashtanga Yoga for 6 years in NH. Since the beginning of 2022, Singhaśūrī has worked as the head vegetarian retreat chef, volunteer coordinator and projects coordinator at Aryaloka. Singhaśūrī also works as a fine gardener, forager and medicine maker for her botanical line Witch’s Dream Botanicals, focusing on plant-based education. She has a background in nutrition, Macrobiotics and Herbal Medicine consulting. Her name means “lioness-like heroine”. She lives in Maine with her husband Dh. Śuddhāyu.