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Kim Allen began meditating in 2003, seeking both a path out of suffering and the deeper truths of life. She has practiced in the US and Sri Lanka and was trained by Gil Fronsdal at...

Bhikkhu Anālayo is a scholar-monk and the author of numerous books on meditation and early Buddhism, such as Satipatthāna: The Direct Path to Realization, Perspectives on Satipatthāna, and Satipatthāna Meditation: A Practice Guide. He is a...

Ayya Anandabodhi first encountered the Buddha's teachings in her early teens, igniting a deep interest in the Buddha's Path of Awakening. She lived and trained as a nun in the Forest Tradition at Amaravati...

Ayya Anopama is a Theravadian Buddhist nun who offers teachings and retreats across continents. She has spent several years in intensive retreat in Burma, where she was ordained with the Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw...

Paula Arai (Ph.D. from Harvard University) has been teaching Buddhist Studies for over 26 years and is author off Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra—The Buddhist Art of Iwasaki Tsuneo; Bringing...

Mary Aubry leads meditation retreats on insight, the jhānas, abiding in emptiness, and the brahmavihārās.  In addition, she has taught for programs that support mindfully meeting aging, illness, and dying, as well as training meditation companions...

Yahel Avigur is a teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition. He completed his teacher-training in 2020 under the guidance of Rob Burbea, with a particular emphasis on Emptiness and Jhana practices.Currently he's in training...

Martin Aylward began dharma practice and study at age nineteen, spending several years in Asian monasteries and with Himalayan hermits. He has been teaching worldwide since 1999. Martin co-founded Moulin de Chaves, the retreat center where...

Willa Blythe Baker, Ph.D., is the founder of Natural Dharma Fellowship and its retreat center Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in Springfield, NH. She was authorized as a lineage holder (lama) in the Kagyu lineage of...

Jacoby Ballard teaches yoga and dharma as it intersects with social justice and leads trainings around the country on diversity, equity, and inclusion. He has meditated since he was 17 years old and trained...

Kristin Barker is co-founder and director of One Earth Sangha whose mission is to cultivate radical response to ecological crises grounded in Buddhist wisdom and practice. She is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community...

Lawrence Barriner II is a narrative strategist, connector, and systems thinker. Lawrence first explored weaving meditation and storytelling together with his friend, Fez Aswat.  Over the course of his professional career, he has honed...

Stephen Batchelor is a writer, teacher, translator, and artist known for his secular approach to the Dharma. A co-founder of Bodhi College, his books include Buddhism Without Beliefs, Living with the Devil, Confession of a Buddhist...

Brent Beresford identifies as gender non-conforming, preferring they/them pronouns, and is a person of mixed racial heritage. Their greatest teachers are their children, showing them how unreasonable their expectations are and encouraging the practice...

Chris Berlin is an instructor in spiritual counseling, chaplaincy, Buddhist ministry, resilience, and contemplative practices at both Harvard Divinity School and the Harvard Extension School. He has worked as a full-time clinical chaplain at...

A licensed psychologist, Judy Bernstein, has been practicing Vipassana meditation and exploring the intersection between Buddhism and psychology since 2000. She is a certified instructor of the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program, an instructor...

Ajahn Brahmali was born in Norway in 1964. He first became interested in Buddhism and meditation in his early 20s while visiting Japan. He took full ordination in 1996 at the Bodhinyana Monastery with...

Leigh Brasington has been practicing meditation since 1985 and is the senior American student of the late Ven. Ayya Khema. Leigh began assisting Ven. Ayya Khemma in 1994, and began teaching retreats on his...

Jud Brewer MD Ph.D. (“Dr. Jud”) is a New York Times best-selling author and thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery,” having combined over 25 years of experience...

Joshuah Brian Campbell is the Director of Music and Arts at Wake Forest School of Divinity and Director of the University Gospel Choir. In addition to a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard, Campbell also holds...

Shaila Catherine is the founder of Bodhi Courses, an online Dhamma classroom, and Insight Meditation South Bay, a Buddhist meditation center in Silicon Valley. She authored three books on concentration and insight—Focused and Fearless:...

Ying Chen took refuge to become a Buddhist with Venerable Ji Ru in graduate school. After graduating, Ying began her exploration of the Chinese Agamas and suttas in a Chinese Buddhist sangha. Since 2005 she...

David Chernikoff is a meditation teacher, spiritual counselor, and life coach who taught psychology and meditation at Naropa University for many years. A student of meditation since 1971, David completed the inaugural Community Dharma...

Lama Karma Yeshe Chödrön is a scholar, teacher, and translator at Rigpe Dorje Institute at Pullahari Monastery, Kathmandu, and cofounder of Prajna Fire. She co-hosts the podcasts Prajna Sparks and Opening Dharma Access: Listening...

Yenkuei Chuang 莊琰珪 (she/her) lives near Boston, USA. As an immigrant woman of color, she is keenly interested in building a beloved inclusive community. Yenkuei began her daily life dharma practice with Zen Masters...

Susan (Susie) Clarion holds a graduate degree in Transpersonal Studies from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She is a psychiatric RN and a retired acupuncture detox specialist. Susie has been practicing Vipassana since 1986...

Diana Clark teaches with an emphasis on both the beautiful and the practical. She has trained in the Theravada tradition, studies and teaches about the early Buddhist teachings found in the Pali Canon, and is...

Clayton Moon Clemetson has been immersed in earth-based ways of living for most of their life, from home-schooling in rural Maine to traveling with Kroka Expeditions in Ecuador.  They feel fortunate to have received an...

Paul Condon, Ph.D. is an associate professor of psychology at Southern Oregon University. He has also served as a visiting lecturer for the Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute and is a fellow...

Jeanne Corrigal is the guiding teacher for the Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community, and a graduate of the 2017-2021 IMS teacher training program.  She deeply appreciates metta and nature based practices. She is certified with Indigenous Focusing...

Robin Craig is a certified Meditation Teacher in The Mind Illuminated approach. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Faculty with Organic Intelligence®. Robin has degrees in Philosophy, Biomedical Engineering, and Counseling Psychology, as...

Chris Crotty is a Dharma teacher in the insight tradition, a Buddhist chaplain and pastoral counselor, and furniture maker. Practicing meditation since 1998, he has trained with Burmese meditation masters, western monastics of the...

For over 20 years, Nakawe Cuebas has immersed herself in the teachings of the early Buddhist schools, mainly Theravada and Thai Forest. She studied in the Dedicated Practitioners Program and Community Dharma Leaders Program...

Roxanne Dault has been dedicated to this practice since 2006, sitting long silent retreats both in Asia and in the West. A teacher at True North Insight in Canada, she is also trained in Somatic Experiencing®,...

bruni dávila comenzó la meditación zen, e “insight” en 1995, y completó el Programa de 4 años para maestrxs en Insight Meditation Society (IMS). Bruni ha sido guiada y apoyada por muchxs maravillosxs maestrxs...

Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā is a scholar-monastic and practitioner, born in Italy in 1980. She is the director of the Āgama Research Group and her main research interests are the early Buddhist discourses and Vinaya texts,...

Dhammadīpā, the founder of Dassanāya Buddhist Community, has been practicing Buddhism since 1987. She is a Dharma Transmitted Teacher in the Suzuki Roshi lineage of Soto Zen and was a nun ordained in the...

John Dunne (PhD 1999, Harvard University) serves on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he holds the Distinguished Chair in Contemplative Humanities at the Center for Healthy Minds. In addition to serving as...

William Edelglass is Director of Studies at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.  He publishes broadly in Buddhist studies, environmental humanities, and philosophy.  William has practiced in several different Buddhist traditions and has taught widely in dharma centers,...

Kirstin Edelglass is a wilderness guide, ecological educator, and counselor whose passion for supporting young adults runs deep.  In addition to teaching at Sterling College, Colby College, Marlboro College, and Lesley University’s Audubon Expedition Institute, she...

Max Erdstein teaches at the Insight Meditation Center and the Insight Retreat Center. He is trained as a teacher by Gil Fronsdal. Max has practiced Vipassana and Zen in America, Japan, Thailand, and Burma. He...

Elizabeth Faria has offered Insight Dialogue and silent meditation retreats in Brazil, China, Europe, and Australia since 2013. She has studied with Gregory Kramer and the Insight Dialogue Teaching Community since 2008. She began...

Gil Fronsdal has practiced extensively in Soto Zen and Theravada Buddhism training in the US, Japan, Thailand, and Burma.  He is a teacher at the Insight Meditation Center, the Insight Retreat Center, and Spirit Rock...

Paul R. Fulton is a clinical psychologist, founding member and former president of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, and a former board member of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. Dr. Fulton is a Lecturer,...

Francisco Morillo Gable has been devoted to Dharma since 2003.  Thanks to this, he made an unexpected recovery from an accident that rendered him permanently disabled.  He studies and teaches early Buddhism with Bikkhu Analayo, and...

Valeria Galetto began practicing insight meditation in 2012, under the supervision of Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella at the Insight Meditation Center (IMC). She is a mentor in the Noble Eightfold Path Program and...

Wendy Garling has a BA from Wellesley College and MA specializing in Sanskrit language and literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a vajrayana practitioner and dharma teacher in the Gelug Lam...

Cheryl Giles is the Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling and core faculty for the Buddhist Ministry Initiative at Harvard Divinity School. She joined the faculty in 1997 and teaches...

Vanessa Zuisei Goddard is a writer and lay Zen teacher based in Playa del Cármen, México. She was ordained and trained full-time for almost twenty-five years at Zen Mountain Monastery in Upstate New York,...

Farah Godrej is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. Her areas of research and teaching include Indian political thought, Gandhi’s political thought, cosmopolitanism, globalization, and comparative political theory.  She...

Joseph Goldstein is a co-founder and guiding teacher of IMS. He has been teaching vipassanā and mettā retreats worldwide since 1974. In 1989, he helped establish BCBS and, more recently, IMS's Forest Refuge. He...

Michael Grady began practicing Insight Meditation with Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg in 1974 when they first returned from Asia. He has also been a student of the late Chan master Sheng Yen who taught...

Kevin Griffin is a Buddhist teacher and author of several books, including “One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps.” A co-founder of the Buddhist Recovery Network, he was instrumental in the...

GuoGu (Jimmy Yu) is a Chan (Zen) is the founder of the Tallahassee Chan Center and the founder of the socially engaged intra-denominational Buddhist organization, Dharma Relief. GuoGu is also an Associate Professor of...

Anu Gupta is a dedicated practitioner in the Insight and the SRF traditions. His approach to the Dharma is rooted in his intersectional identities as an immigrant, cis-gendered gay man, and a person of...

Ruben Habito received Zen training under Kōun Yamada Rōshi in Kamakura, Japan, and is Guiding Teacher at Maria Kannon Zen Center in Dallas, Texas. He also teaches at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist...

Charles Hallisey is Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures at Harvard Divinity School where he teaches about Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist ethics as well as Pali language and literature. His translation of the...

Rachel Hammerman (she/her/they/them) teaches Vipassana meditation in New York City as a faculty member of the Community Meditation Center of New York and the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. Rachel has supported ID teachers...

Chenxing Han is the author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (2021) and one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care (2023). She holds a BA...

Diego Hangartner has dedicated over thirty years to external scientific research and internal meditative exploration of the mind and consciousness.  He started as a pharmacologist specializing in psychopharmacology and addiction, always interested in what constitutes...

Dr. Melanie L. Harris is Founding Director of African American and Africana Studies and full Professor of Religion and Ethics at TCU. A graduate of the Harvard Leadership Program, she is an educator and community...

devon hase loves long retreats. Cumulatively, she’s spent four years in silent practice in the Insight and Vajrayana traditions. Since discovering meditation in 2000, she has put dharma and community at the center of...

nico hase lived in a monastery for six years before earning a PhD in counseling psychology and becoming an Insight Meditation teacher full time. He currently mentors mindfulness teachers, teaches online and in-person retreats, and...

David Hinton has published many books of poetry, nonfiction, and translations of ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy. These books are all informed by an abiding interest in deep ecological thinking, in exploring the weave...

Brad Hunter has practiced meditation since the early 70s in the Zen and Theravada traditions. His work and spiritual life have intertwined around death, dying, grief, and trauma. Brad spent 40 years managing cemeteries...

Christopher Ives, Ph.D., is a professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College. In his teaching and writing, he focuses on modern Zen ethics and is currently working on Buddhist approaches to nature and environmental...

Dr. Pilar Jennings is a psychoanalyst based in New York City with a focus on the clinical applications of Buddhist meditation practice. She has been a Buddhist practitioner for 40 years; a teacher of...

Kate Johnson is a meditation teacher, facilitator, writer, and mother whose work traverses the territories of spirituality, social action, embodiment, and creativity. She is the author of Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself...

Robert A. Jonas, Ed.D. (Harvard University), M.T.S. (Weston Jesuit School of Theology) was trained as a psychotherapist and is now a retreat leader, environmental activist, author, and musician. Dr. Jonas is the director of The...

Philip Jones started meditating in 1987, teaching Insight Meditation in 1996, and graduated from Spirit Rock's Community Dharma Leader program in 2000. Phil co-founded Show Me Dharma in Columbia, MO and has served on...

Ofosu Jones-Quartey is a meditation teacher, rapper, performing under the name “Born I” and an author. Ofosu was introduced to meditation by his mother when he was very young and has been teaching mindfulness and meditation...

Georgia Kashnig is a Zen practitioner, a dancer, and a facilitator of sacred reading spaces. They received an MTS in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School, an MA in the Regional Studies, East Asia Department...

Sumi Loundon Kim (she, her) is the Buddhist chaplain at Yale University, previously serving in the same role at Duke University for eight years. She is the founder of and was the primary teacher...

Anne C. Klein/ Rigzin Drolma is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Religion at Rice University. She is also a Lama in the Nyingma tradition, and in 1996 co-founded Dawn Mountain, a...

Madeline Klyne has loved the dharma since 1986. She is the resident teacher at Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, a visiting teacher at Insight Meditation Society, and a co-founding teacher at South Shore Insight Meditation...

Gregory Kramer is the founding teacher of the Insight Dialogue Community and has been teaching vipassanā since 1980, having been trained by Ven. Ananda Maitreya Mahanayaka Thera, Punnaji Maha Thera, Achan Sobin Namto, and...

Cara Lai once worked as an artist, wilderness guide, social worker and psychotherapist but traded it in for an all-out mindfulness rampage. She’s a working mom whose teaching is relatable, authentic, funny, and sometimes...

Marsha Lawson is currently a recognized facilitator and a teacher in development for the Insight Dialogue Community. She has been practicing with and studying the wisdom teachings of the Buddha since 2009. Marsha is...

Brian Lesage has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1988 and has taught meditation since 2000. He has studied in the Zen, Theravada and Tibetan schools of Buddhism. He was ordained in the Rinzai Zen tradition...

Rachel Lewis began practicing insight meditation in 2003, while completing her physics PhD at Yale. Since 2011, she has taught dharma and meditation classes and retreats in British Columbia and beyond. She completed the IMS/IRC...

Adam Lobel, PhD, is a meditation teacher and a scholar-practitioner of philosophy and religion. Adam’s teachings focus on the intersection of contemporary thought, Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhism, ecopsychology, and transformational politics. A professor of ecopsychology...

David Lorey began meditating as a teenager in the 1970s, did intensive training in transcendental meditation, and then came to practice in the container of the Buddhadharma in the early 2000s. He explores the early...

David R. Loy is especially interested in the conversation between Buddhism and modernity. His books include A New Buddhist Path, Ecodharma: Buddhist teachings for the Ecological Crisis, Nonduality, Lack and Transcendance, A Buddhist History...

Dawn MacDonald is deeply grateful for opportunities to study and teach the dharma. She is certified as a trainer and a teacher of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Mindful Self Compassion and teaches Compassion Cultivation Training. She lives on...

Joanna Macy, Ph.D., teacher and author, is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology. As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, Macy has created a ground-breaking framework for personal and...

Rhonda V. Magee, M.A., J.D., is a Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco and has spent more than twenty years integrating anti-racist education, social justice, and contemplative practices. She is an internationally-recognized...

Barry Magid he has been teaching Zen for over 20 years, having received Dharma Transmission from Charlotte Joko Beck. A practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, he has been at the forefront of integrating Zen and...

John Makransky, PhD, is a professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College, senior advisor for Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche’s Centre of Buddhist Studies in Nepal, a fellow of the Mind and Life Institute,...

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, Ph.D. (she/her) poet, author, ordained, Zen priest, was born to parents who migrated from rural Louisiana at the start of WWII, she has walked through many different doors spiritually and academically. She...

Rupert Marques has practiced in the insight meditation tradition for over 25 years in Europe, America, and Asia. His teaching emphasizes the role of the Dharma in the movements for social justice and ecological...

Konda Mason is a social entrepreneur, eco-spiritual thought leader, mindfulness teacher and justice advocate working at the intersection of social and financial justice and planetary healing. Konda was introduced to Tibetan Buddhism in 1982....

Catherine McGee  has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats internationally since 1999.  She is a Gaia House teacher council member, teaches yearly at IMS and BCBS, and is a guiding teacher for One Earth Sangha...

Dr. Nikki Mirghafori is a Buddhist teacher and Artificial Intelligence scientist. She is a lineage holder in the Theravada tradition, empowered by the Burmese meditation master Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw, with whom she practiced...

Elizabeth Monson, Ph.D., is the Spiritual Co-Director of Natural Dharma Fellowship and the Managing Teacher of Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, a Buddhist meditation retreat center in Springfield, NH. She holds a Doctorate in Religious Studies...

Susan Moon is a writer and lay Zen teacher, practicing at Berkeley Zen Center and with the Everyday Zen sangha. She leads Zen and writing retreats in the Bay Area and beyond. Alive Until You’re...

Jessica Morey is a meditation teacher and coach. She has been practicing meditation for three decades. She began her practice on teen retreats at the Insight Meditation Society and graduated from the IMS teacher...

Bill Morgan, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cambridge, MA. He has participated in many intensive retreats in meditation practice over the past 40 years and recently completed a four-year meditation retreat...

Susan Morgan, CNS, is a psychotherapist in Cambridge, MA. She is a board and faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and contributing author to Mindfulness and Psychotherapy. Susan has a longstanding...

Larkspur Morton, Ph.D. has devoted the last two decades to teaching and leading experiential education programs focused on natural history and ecology, cultural perspectives and worldviews, the functioning of vital learning communities, and advocacy...

Holly Nelson-Johnson is a Family Nurse Practitioner, recognized Insight Dialogue Teacher, certified teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and Interpersonal Mindfulness. She has been practicing Vipassana for over twenty-five years. Holly has a particular interest...

Andrew Olendzki is a scholar of early Buddhist thought and practice with a particular interest in the application of Buddhist teachings to contemporary life. He is a professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA,...

Walt Opie was first introduced to insight meditation in 1993 and began sitting retreats in 2005. Currently, his most influential teachers include Bhikkhu Anālayo, Joseph Goldstein, Sayadaw U Tejaniya, and Gil Fronsdal. Walt is...

Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. An international influencer with a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Author of Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation...

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Ruth was ordained in 2010 and is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foundation. She is the author of  My...

Zeenat Potia teaches meditation in Buddhist and secular spaces, and has taught at CIMC since 2014. She practices vipassana at CIMC and the Insight Meditation Society, and is committed to healing and recovery through trauma-sensitive...

Vance Pryor, PsyD, began insight meditation in 1998. He has been deeply influenced by the teachings of Sayadaw U Pandita and Sayadaw U Tejaniya. His training to become a teacher has been supported by...

Nicola Redfern is an Insight Dialogue Retreat Teacher with an extensive background in both Zen and Vipassana meditation.  With a strong belief that awakening is not simply a solo endeavor, Nic is particularly interested...

Jan Rosamond leads the Dharmatown Insight Meditation Group in St. Louis, Missouri. She is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner, Community Dharma Leader, and Advanced Practitioner Programs. She loves chanting – especially in...

Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum received lay entrustment in Soto Zen from Sojun Mel Weitsman, denkai in Ordinary Mind Zen from Karen Terzano, and is an heir of Grandmaster Hui Liu in Dayan Qigong. Professionally, Bob...

Jess Row is a novelist, essayist, and senior dharma teacher at the Kwan Um School of Zen. His second novel, The New Earth, will be published in March 2023. His other books include Your Face...

Dr. Peggy Rowe aspires to grow her heart as wide as the world.  Her education is in counseling psychology and education.  She works with clients on spiritual direction and supports clients and organizations in...

Tuere Sala is a Guiding Teacher at Seattle Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Retreat Center. She is a retired prosecuting attorney who has practiced Vipassana meditation for over 30 years. Tuere is committed...

Santacitta Bhikkhuni was born in Austria and began her monastic training in England and Asia in 1993. She co-founded Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery in 2009 and received Bhikkhuni Ordination in 2011 and also received...

Ayya Santussika is a Theravada bhikkhuni who is trained and practicing in the Thai Forest tradition. Her faith in the Dhamma developed during many visits to monasteries of Ajahn Chah and his disciples in...

Dawn Scott has been practicing Insight Meditation since 2008 and has served as the Family Program Coordinator for eight years at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She is a graduate of the Insight Meditation Society’s...

Sebene Selassie began studying Buddhism over 25 years ago as an undergraduate at McGill University where she majored in Comparative Religious Studies. She is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leader (CDL4) program at...

Jill Shepherd began practicing insight meditation in Thailand in 1999, and since that time has lived and worked at several meditation centers and monasteries in the US, Australia, England, and Thailand. She spent seven...

Judith Simmer-Brown, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Contemplative and Religious Studies Emeritx at Naropa University, where she has taught for over 40 years. She is a senior Shambhala dharma teacher, a former acharya, who teaches...

Mu Soeng is Scholar Emeritus at BCBS. He trained in the (Korean) Zen tradition and was a monk for eleven years. He is the author of Thousand Peaks: Korean Zen (Tradition and Teachers); The Diamond Sutra:...

Oren Jay Sofer has practiced meditation in the Theravada Buddhist tradition since 1997. He holds a degree in Comparative Religion from Columbia University, is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for healing trauma, is a Certified Nonviolent...

Ajahn Sucitto became a bhikkhu in Thailand in 1976 but returned to live in his native England in 1978, where he has been involved in the founding of several monasteries in the Thai Forest...

Bhikkhu Sujato was ordained in 1994 as a Theravāda monk in the Thai forest lineage of Ajahn Chah.  He lived as a monk in Thailand for some years and then returned to his native Australia,...

Heather Sundberg has taught insight meditation since 1999, completed the Spirit Rock/IMS Teacher Training program under Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, and is currently a member of the Spirit Rock Teacher's Council.  For the last...

Janet Surrey, PhD is an Insight Dialogue Teacher. She teaches Insight Dialogue retreats worldwide and leads a longstanding practice group in the Boston area. She has practiced in the Insight tradition  for over 30...

Stephanie Swann, Ph.D., began practicing insight meditation in 2008 after many years of practicing in other traditions. Stephanie is a guiding teacher for the Atlanta Insight Meditation Community and a certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction...

Anam Thubten grew up in Tibet and began to practice in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism at an early age. He currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the founder...

Nolitha is a guiding teacher at Dharmagiri KZN, South Africa and is a graduate of the IMS 4 year teacher training program. She is currently a recognized facilitator and a teacher in development for...

Deborah Eden Tull, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, is a Zen meditation and engaged dharma teacher, author, spiritual activist, and sustainability educator. She emphasizes the connection between personal awakening and collective transformation. Eden spent...

First introduced to Buddhist teachings from the writings of Thích Nhất Hạnh as a teenager, Peace is now the Director of Buddhist Studies and the Thích Nhất Hạnh Program for Engaged Buddhism at Union...

Mark Unno, PhD, is Professor of Buddhism and Dept Head of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon. The recipient of the Thomas F. Herman Distinguished Teaching Award, he is the author of Shingon...

Bart van Melik has been teaching insight meditation and Insight Dialogue meditation since 2009, with a special focus on diverse communities. He brings the practice to juvenile detention centers, homeless shelters and NYC public...

Bhikkhu Viveka is a Buddhist monk who teaches mindfulness practice and compassionate living. He began exploring meditation in the early ’90s, attended his first retreat in 2002, and was ordained with Sayadaw U Tejaniya...

Trent Walker is Assistant Professor of Theravada Buddhism in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. He holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of California, Berkeley,...

Larry Ward is a senior teacher in Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village tradition. He brings twenty-five years of international experience in organizational change and local community renewal to his work as...

Akincano M. Weber is a European Buddhist practitioner, teacher and psychotherapist. A former monk, he practiced for 20 years in Thai Forest monasteries East and West and studied Buddhist Psychotherapy in London (M.A.). He is...

Pamela Weiss is a stepmother, dual lineage Buddhist teacher, and author of “A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism.” She has worked as a leadership coach and entrepreneur, completed teacher training through Spirit-Rock/IMS,...

Duncan Ryūken Williams was ordained as a Soto Zen Buddhist priest at Kotakuji Temple (Nagano, Japan) 1993. He is a Professor and the Chair of the USC School of Religion and Director of the...

Jan Willis (BA and MA in Philosophy from Cornell University; Ph.D. in Indic and Buddhist Studies from Columbia University) is a Professor of Religion Emerita at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She has studied...

Pamela Ayo Yetunde, J.D., Th.D. is a Community Dharma Leader, pastoral counselor, pastoral counseling instructor, and advocate.  She is the co-founder of Buddhist Justice Reporter  and Center of the Heart.  Ayo is the author of...

Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, psychologist, and psychotherapist in private practice. She is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont and the founder and director of the Institute for...

Program Manager, Nancy Zegarchuk, BSc, BEd holds a teaching certificate from the BC College of Teachers in British Columbia, Canada. She has been practicing both Vipassana and relational meditation (Insight Dialogue) since 2010. Nancy...

Michele Zukerberg is an Insight Dialogue Facilitator with an extensive background working at the intersection of natural resource management with race and gender equity. She holds a Master of Forestry degree from Duke University...