We were honored to welcome Isa Salman as our July Satsang guest. Her conversation with Rev. Cyndi Krupp was both inspiring and insightful, offering profound reflections that resonated deeply with our community.
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Here is some information about Isa:
I am a traveler on the path of presence. I was a child with many questions, and that curiosity has followed me through life. My mother introduced me to a simple form of meditation when I was young, long before I knew what meditation was. Later, this curiosity developed into a deeper exploration through mindfulness practice, self-inquiry, and Enlightenment Intensives.
My life has included many worlds — studying business, working internationally, traveling, exploring different cultures, and meeting people in many different circumstances. These experiences have continually brought me back to a simple question: what happens when we truly meet ourselves and one another?
I’ve practiced Vipassana meditation in the Mahasi Sayadaw tradition and spent many years exploring mindfulness and self-inquiry, including dyads and Enlightenment Intensives. I have also led retreats and shared these practices with others, supporting spaces where people can meet themselves more directly and honestly. Over time, I have come to appreciate the simplicity and depth of direct experience. I see this work less as teaching something new, and more as creating a space where something already present can reveal itself.
What continues to interest me is not ideas about awakening or truth, but the immediacy of experience itself — what is here when we slow down and look closely. I don’t see this as something fixed or complete. It is an ongoing inquiry and a living exploration. I forget, I return, I look again. And in that returning, something simple and quietly reliable keeps revealing itself. I’m interested in meeting people in that same spirit — through presence, sincerity, and direct contact meeting what is true in the moment.
The invitation is simple: to look honestly, to listen deeply, and to discover what is true in our own experiences.