Teacher Aishah Shahidah Simmons

Aishah Shahidah Simmons (she/her) is a Black feminist lesbian survivor-healer, Buddhist practitioner, Insight meditation teacher, and filmmaker-writer. She has practiced vipassanā since 2002, beginning in the S. N. Goenka tradition, where she trained for 17 years before continuing in the Insight tradition, with over a year of silent retreat practice in the United States and India. Aishah serves as Resident Teacher at Delaware Valley Insight and is a trainee in the 2025–2028 Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Society Residential Retreat Teacher Training Program, with her primary teachers Tuere Sala, DaRa Williams, and Shelly Graf. Her award-winning cultural works, NO! The Rape Documentary and love WITH accountability, illuminate truth-telling, healing, and non-carceral responses to harm. https://aishahshahidahsimmons.com