Bhikkhu Anālayo is a German scholar-monk and the author of Satipatthāna: The Direct Path to Realization, Perspectives on Satipatthāna, and Excursions into the Thought-World of the Pāli Discourses. He is a Core Faculty Member...
Bhikkhu Anālayo
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia has been a Dhamma teacher since 1990. She is a student of the western forest sangha, the disciples of Ajahn Sumedho and Ajahn Chah, and is a Lay Buddhist Minister in...
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
Martine Batchelor lived in Korea as a Zen nun under the guidance of Master Kusan for ten years. She is the author of Meditation for Life, The Path of Compassion, Women in Korean Zen and Let Go: A Buddhist Guide...
Martine Batchelor
Sharon Beckman-Brindley, Ph.D., is an Insight Dialogue Teacher who has taught Insight Dialogue retreats worldwide. She also is a co-founder and senior teacher of the Insight Meditation Community in Charlottesville, VA. A clinical psychologist with...
Sharon Beckman-Brindley
Devin Berry's practice is primarily informed by the classical teachings of early Buddhism and the Insight Meditation tradition. He is currently in the 2017-2021 Insight Meditation Society Teacher Training Program, and teaches nationally. He...
Devin Berry
Robin Boudette, PhD., clinical psychologist and mindfulness instructor, has practiced yoga and meditation for nearly 20 years. She graduated from the Community Dharma Leader Training Program in 2017. She is a certified...
Robin Boudette
Rebecca Bradshaw, one of the Guiding Teachers of the Insight Meditation Society, has been practicing Vipassana meditation since 1983 and teaching since 1993. She is a climate and social justice activist, involved in anti-pipeline...
Rebecca Bradshaw
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...
Leigh Brasington
Judson Brewer MD PhD is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery”, having combined over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientific research therein. He...
Judson Brewer
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 two books on concentration and insight—Focused and Fearless:...
Shaila Catherine
David Chernikoff, MDiv, LCSW, is a meditation teacher, spiritual counselor, and psychotherapist who taught psychology and meditation at Naropa University for many years. In the early 1980s, he worked at Ram Dass’s Hanuman Foundation...
David Chernikoff
Chris Crotty is a Dharma teacher in the insight tradition, a Buddhist pastoral counselor, and adjunct professor in alternative medicine. Practicing meditation since 1998, he has trained with Burmese meditation masters, western monastics of...
Chris Crotty
Dr Elizabeth Day trained as a monastic within the lineage of the Thai Forest Sangha. She is committed to presenting the clarity of the core Buddhist teachings, and bringing these alive for minds shaped by...
Elizabeth Day
Chas DiCapua has been practicing mindfulness and Buddhist meditation, primarily in the Theravada school, for 30 years, including over 2 years of combined time in intensive retreat. In 2003 Chas was invited...
Chas DiCapua
Ann Dillonsat her first formal insight retreat in 2004, and her first concentration retreat in 2008. Over time her interests gravitated to the early Buddhist teachings, especially in the way meditative practice highlights conditionality...
Ann Dillon
JD Doyle serves as a Core Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center and has held many roles there, including Board member and co-founder of the LGBTQI meditation group. JD is in the Spirit Rock teacher-training...
JD Doyle
William Edelglass is Director of Studies at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He is a scholar-practitioner with a background in several Buddhist traditions. William’s writings explore a wide variety of questions in Buddhist...
William Edelglass
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...
Max Erdstein
Margit Galanter is a dance poet and movement culture agent living on Huichin, Ohlone Land, aka California, East Bay. Margit has shared dance, movement, and somatic practices across the globe for decades. Recently, Margit...
Margit Galanter
Jozen Tamori Gibson (they, them) began formal meditation practice and study in 2004. Jozen is a senior student and sangha facilitator with the Brooklyn Zen Center (BZC), mentor with the Awake Youth Project, and...
Jozen Tamori Gibson
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...
Michael Grady
Guo Gu (Jimmy Yu) is a Chan (Zen) teacher and a scholar. He is the founder of the Tallahassee Chan Center and leads retreats in different parts of the world. He is the author...
Guo Gu
Anurag Gupta is the Founder and CEO of Be More America, a social enterprise that trains professionals in evidence-based mindfulness strategies that eliminate conscious and unconscious biases. Anurag is a 500-hour certified yoga teacher...
Anurag Gupta
Diego Hangartner has dedicated over thirty years to external scientific research and internal meditative exploration of the mind and consciousness. Diego was COO of Mind and Life Institute in the US and co-founder and...
Diego Hangartner
Chip Hartranft is the founding director of The Arlington Center, integrating yoga and dharma practice, and has taught mindful movement, breath, and meditation in the Boston area since 1978. He is the author of The Yoga-Sutra...
Chip Hartranft
Devon Hase and Craig Hase teach meditation workshops and retreats throughout North America and Europe. Devon is in the IMS teacher training, serves on retreat teams at IMS and Spirit Rock, and coaches meditators on...
Devon Hase
Craig Hase PhD and Devon Hase teach meditation workshops and retreats throughout North America and Europe. Devon is in the IMS teacher training, serves on retreat teams at IMS and Spirit Rock, and coaches...
Craig Hase
Phyllis Hicks has studied with a number of Vipassana teachers and has trained and taught with Gregory Kramer, the developer of Insight Dialogue, since 2004. She teaches Insight Dialogue internationally. She has worked as a...
Phyllis Hicks
Christopher Ives, PhD, is a professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College. In his teaching and writing he focuses on modern Zen ethics, and currently he is working on Buddhist approaches to nature and...
Chris Ives
Dr. Pilar Jenningsis 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 Tibetan...
Pilar Jennings
Dr. Stephanie Kaza is Professor Emerita of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont and former Director of the UVM Environmental Program. She co-founded the Environmental Council at UVM and served as faculty director...
Stephanie Kaza
Sumi Loundon Kim (she, her) is the Buddhist chaplain at Yale University, past chaplain at Duke University, and founder of the Mindful Families of Durham, NC. A graduate of the Harvard Divinity School, she...
Sumi Loundon Kim
Kittisaro, a Rhodes Scholar, spent 15 years as a monk in the Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah. His practice is also influenced by the Chinese school of Master Hua. Kittisaro, with Thanissara founded Dharmagiri Sacred...
Kittisaro
Gregory Kramer has been teaching vipassanā since 1980, having been trained by Ven. Ananda Maitreya Mahanayaka Thera, Punnaji Maha Thera, Achan Sobin Namto, and Anagarika Dhammadina. He is the co-creator and developer of Insight...
Gregory Kramer
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...
Brian Lesage
David R. Loy is especially interested in the conversation between Buddhism and modernity. His books include Nonduality, Lack and Transcendance, A Buddhist History of the West, The Great Awakening, Money Sex War Karma and...
David Loy
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...
Barry Magid
Catherine McGee has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats internationally since 1999, and since 2014 has been collaborating with Rob Burbea in shaping and teaching Soulmaking Dharma. She is a member of the Gaia House teacher...
Catherine McGee
Karin Meyers is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Smith College. She has taught at several universities in the US and abroad. Her scholarly work focuses on bringing Buddhist and comparative religious perspectives to...
Karin Meyers
Willa Miller, PhD, is a Buddhist teacher, scholar, and translator. She has trained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition since 1987 in both monastic and academic contexts and was authorized as a lama in 1999...
Willa Miller
Elizabeth Monson, PhD, is the Spiritual Co-Director of Natural Dharma Fellowship and adjunct Professor at Harvard Divinity School. She currently serves as the managing teacher of Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, a Buddhist meditation retreat center in Springfield,...
Elizabeth Monson
Jessica Morey is the executive director and lead teacher of Inward Bound Mindfulness Education, a nonprofit organization bringing in-depth mindfulness and compassion training to teens, young adults and the parents and professionals who support...
Jessica Morey
Bill Morgan, PsyD, 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...
Bill Morgan
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...
Susan Morgan
Lama Rod Owens is an author, activist, and authorized Lama (Buddhist Teacher) in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the co-founder of Bhumisparsha, a Buddhist tantric practice and study community; a guiding teacher...
Lama Rod Owens
Venerable Pannavati Bhikkhuni is Co-founder and Spiritual Director of Heartwood Refuge in Hendersonville, NC, a multi-lineage retreat center and intentional spiritual community; and Co-Abbot of Embracing Simplicity Hermitage, a 21st century trans-lineage Buddhist Order....
Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Claire Petitmengin studied Buddhist Philosophy and completed her PhD thesis under the supervision of Francisco Varela, on the subject of the lived experience which accompanies the emergence of an intuition. Her research focuses on the...
Claire Petitmengin
Nicola Redfern is an Insight Dialogue Teacher. She began practicing insight meditation in 2001, studying with a variety of teachers, and has had the good fortune of many months spent in silent retreat. Nicola...
Nicola Redfern
Willa Thaniya Reid trained in the Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah, which harmonises with her affinity for the natural world and for reflective practice grounded in the Buddha’s suttas. She was a monastic...
Willa Thaniya Reid
Shinshu Roberts is co-founder and teacher, with Daijaku Kinst, of Ocean Gate Zen Center in Capitola, CA. She is a Dharma heir of Sojun Weitsman Roshi, Abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center, in the...
Shinshu Roberts
Andy Rotman is a professor of Religion, Buddhism, and South Asian Studies at Smith College. His publications include Divine Stories: Translations from the Divyāvadāna, part 1 and part 2 (Wisdom Publications, 2008, 2017) and...
Andy Rotman
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...
Sebene Selassie
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...
Jill Shepherd
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:...
Mu Soeng
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, a Certified Nonviolent Communication...
Oren Jay Sofer
With a background in movement arts, performance studies, cognitive science, and Vipassana/Mindfulness practice, Marlon Barrios Solano investigates the intersections of embodiment, cognition, movement and awareness and their applications to healing, care, knowledge production and...
Marlon Barrios Solano
Janet Surrey, PhD is an Insight Dialogue Teacher. She teaches Insight Dialogue retreats worldwide and leads a longstanding practice group in the Boston area. Her first meditation teacher was Vimala Thakar . She has...
Janet Surrey
Thanissara trained was a monastic in the Ajahn Chah Forest Tradition for 12 years. She’s led retreats since 1988, and co-founded Dharmagiri in South Africa and Sacred Mountain Sangha based in California. She has...
Thanissara
Ajahn Thanissaro has been a Theravadin monk since 1976. The abbot of Metta Forest Monastery in San Diego County, CA, he is a prolific translator of Pali texts and Thai meditation guides. He is the...
Ajahn Thanissaro
Mark Unno, PhD, is the Thomas F. Herman Distinguished Teaching Award associate professor of East Asian Buddhism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon. He is also an ordained Shin...
Mark Unno
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...
Bart van Melik
Akincano M. Weber is a Swiss scholar-practitioner, psychotherapist, and Buddhist teacher. He has lived as a monastic for 20 years in the Forest monasteries of Thailand and Europe, studied Pali and scriptures, and holds...
Akincano Weber
Lila Kate Wheeler was authorized to teach at IMS-Spirit Rock ten years ago. She's now honored to serve as a coordinator for the current training cohort at Spirit Rock, historic in its diverse composition. Lila's...
Lila Kate Wheeler
Katy Wiss began meditating in 1976. She completed the Dedicated Practitioner and Community Dharma Leader Programs of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and has studied intensively at Chuang Yen Monastery. She is currently in Spirit...
Katy Wiss
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...
