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...
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
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...
Stephen Batchelor
Stephen Batchelor travels all over the world teaching courses on Buddhism and leading meditation retreats. He is a guiding teacher at Gaia House and translator and author of various books and articles including the...
Mathieu Boisvert
Mathieu Boisvert has been a professor of religious studies at the University of Québec in Montréal since 1992. He now is the director of graduate programs in religions, director of the Centre for study...
Leigh Brasington
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...
Judson Brewer
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...
Robert Chodo Campbell
Sensei Robert Chodo Campbell, HCC, co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, the first Buddhist organization to offer fully accredited clinical chaplaincy training in America. Chodo is part of the core...
Shaila Catherine
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:...
David Chernikoff
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...
Chris Crotty
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...
Culadasa
Culadasa has practiced Buddhist meditation for over four decades and is the guiding teacher at Dharma Treasure Buddhist Sangha in Tucson, Arizona. He has studied in both the Theravadin and Tibetan traditions, and this...
Elizabeth Day
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...
Sherre DeLys
Sherre DeLys’ relational practice spans radio art, performance, and installation. Based in sound and listening, her work has been exhibited and performed at major museums and cultural centres internationally, and earned some of the...
JD Doyle
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...
Rosalyn Driscoll
Rosalyn Driscoll is a visual artist whose work explores the experience of the body, the somatic senses and perception, drawing on her Buddhist practice in the Theravada tradition since 1971. She is instrumental in...
William Edelglass
William Edelglass is Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Marlboro College in Vermont. He has published widely in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, environmental philosophy, and 20th-century European philosophy. He has taught in...
Koshin Paley Ellison
Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMin, co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, the first Buddhist organization to offer fully accredited clinical chaplaincy training in America. Koshin leads the Buddhist Track...
Max Erdstein
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...
Paul Fulton
Paul R. Fulton is a founding member and former president of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, and is course director for the Institute’s year-long Certificate Program in Mindfulness & Psychotherapy. He is a...
Joseph Goldstein
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
Michael Grady is a core teacher at the Insight Meditation Society and has been a guiding teacher for more than 20 years at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, an urban dharma center that emphasizes...
Guo Gu
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...
Diego Hangartner
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...
JoAnna Hardy
JoAnna Hardy has practiced in multiple traditions since 1999, and in 2005 her practice landed on the Theravada insight tradition. Retreat teaching, bringing the Dharma to communities and individuals who don't typically have access...
Chip Hartranft
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...
Phyllis Hicks
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...
Sayadaw U Jagara
Sayadaw U Jagara is Canadian-born and has been a Theravadin monk for 35 years, primarily in Sri Lanka and Burma. He has trained and taught in the U Ba Khin as well as the...
Ajahn Jayanto
Ajahn Jayanto entered the Theravada monastic community in 1989, training as a monk under Ajahn Sumedho and others in the Ajahn Chah forest monasteries in the UK and Thailand. He is currently the abbot...
Kittisaro
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...
Gregory Kramer
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...
Brian Lesage
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...
David Loy
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...
Barry Magid
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...
Margo McLoughlin
Margo McLoughlin has been practicing in the Insight tradition of Theravada Buddhism since 1986. She is a student of many wonderful teachers, including Joseph Goldstein, Thanissara, Larry Rosenberg, and Burmese teacher Sayadaw U Lakkhana....
Willa Miller
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...
Elizabeth Monson
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,...
Bill Morgan
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...
Susan 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...
DaeJa Napier
DaeJa Napier has been teaching vipassanā meditation in combination with the cultivation of the four brahma-vihāras for the last thirty years. She has trained in the Zen and vipassanā traditions with both Asian and...
Winnie Nazarko
Winnie Nazarko started dharma practice 30 years ago, asking, "Why does there have to be suffering in the world?" She teaches to help individuals realize their full potential for clarity, balance, kindness, and wisdom.
Roshi Pat O Hara
Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara is the abbot of the Village Zendo in Manhattan. She is a Soto Zen Priest and certified Zen Teacher in Maezumi Roshi’s White Plum lineage. She holds a Ph.D. in...
Lama Rod Owens
Lama Rod Owens is the Guiding Teacher for the Radical Dharma Boston Collective and teaches with Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) where he is also a faculty member for the organization’s teacher training program. He...
Pannavati Bhikkhuni
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....
Julie Püttgen
Julie Püttgen shows up as an artist-activist, expressive arts therapist, meditation teacher, and facilitator of embodied contemplative creativity. Trained (variously) as painter, nun, hospital chaplain, university professor, farmhand, catering minion, mental health counselor, and...
Nicola Redfern
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...
Willa Thaniya Reid
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...
Shinshu Roberts
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...
Santikaro
Santikaro lived for many years as a Buddhist monk in southern Thailand, as a student and translator of Ajahn Buddhadāsa. In recent years, his practice has incorporated treatment for and recovery from cancer. Currently,...
Sebene Selassie
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
Jill Shepherd sat her first insight meditation retreat in Thailand in 1999. She currently divides her time between the US, Australia and New Zealand, teaching residential retreats and supporting local communities to explore the Dharma...
Mu Soeng
Mu Soeng is Resident Scholar 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
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...
Ajahn Sucitto
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...
Janet Surrey
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...
Thanissara
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...
Ajahn Thanissaro
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...
Erin Treat
Erin Treat is Guiding Teacher of Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center and Resident Dharma Teacher at the Durango Dharma Center. She has
been practicing vipassana since 1995 and her teaching is influenced by her experience as...
Mark Unno
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...
Bart van Melik
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...
Akincano Weber
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...
Lila Kate Wheeler
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...
