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...
Kim Allen
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...
Bhikkhu Anālayo
Andō is a spiritual director, silence facilitator, writer, and poet. A Zen trained meditation teacher and poet, she teaches contemplative poetry, Zen poetry, meditation, contemplation, and silent prayer. She writes on simplicity and the...
Andō
Ayya Anopama has practised Buddhist meditation for over two decades and spent extensive time in solitary retreat in Burma where she ordained as a Theravadin Buddhist nun with the Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw. Her...
Ayya Anopama
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...
Paula Arai
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...
Mary Aubry
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...
Yahel Avigur
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...
Martin Aylward
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
Julia Barry is a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified Somatic Experiencing® and EMDR practitioner in private practice in Boston, MA. Julia has received training in psychodynamic psychotherapy with an emphasis on trauma and...
Julia Barry
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...
Stephen Batchelor
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...
Chris Berlin
Richard Brady is a retreat leader, writer, educational consultant, and coordinator of the Wake Up Schools Level II Program in North America. He is a founder of the Mindfulness in Education Network, an international...
Richard Brady
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
Willoughby Britton, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University Medical School, and the Director of Brown’s Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory. Her clinical neuroscience research investigates the effects...
Willoughby Britton
Anna-Brown fell in love with Insight Dialogue practice in 2012 after nearly twenty years of practice and study in the Tibetan and Zen koan lineages of Buddhism, including monastic practice and extended solitary retreats....
Anna-Brown
Mary S. Burns teaches Insight Dialogue retreats internationally and offers ID practice online. She works as a clinical social worker, and engages actively in the Insight Dialogue Community by participating in the Teachers Council,...
Mary S. Burns
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, LCSW, M.Div., is a meditation teacher, spiritual counselor, and life coach 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
Francisca Cho is Professor of Buddhist Studies at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the expression of Buddhist concepts in East Asian fiction, poetry, and film, looking at the impact of Buddhism beyond formal...
Francisca Cho
Paul Condon, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of psychology at Southern Oregon University, a meditation teacher with the Foundation for Active Compassion, and a research fellow of the Mind & Life Institute. His research examines...
Paul Condon
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...
Jeanne Corrigal
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...
Robin Craig
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
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...
Nakawe Cuebas
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®,...
Roxanne Dault
Sherre DeLys’ relational sound practice spans radio art and podcast, compositions and documentary soundscapes, collaborative sound sculpture and installation, and performance. Based in deep listening, her works are broadcast, performed and exhibited internationally- having received...
Sherre DeLys
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,...
Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā
Ann Dillon sat 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...
Ann Dillon
Rosalie Dores MA is an Insight Dialogue Retreat Teacher. She has been practicing meditation and yoga since 1992. Her dharma roots are within the Vipassana tradition of S.N. Goenka, Theravada, Insight Meditation and Insight Dialogue....
Rosalie Dores
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,...
William Edelglass
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...
Kirstin 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
Elizabeth Faria is an Insight Dialogue teacher. She has taught online programs, as well as workshops and retreats in Australia and Brazil. Practicing meditation since 1996, she has trained with a Burmese meditation master...
Elizabeth Faria
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...
Gil Fronsdal
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...
Francisco Gable
Wendy Garling is a writer, mother, independent scholar, and authorized dharma teacher with a BA from Wellesley College and an MA in Sanskrit language and literature from the University of California, Berkeley. A Tibetan Buddhist...
Wendy Garling
Cheryl Giles is the Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling and a licensed clinical psychologist who has been a member of the Harvard faculty since 1997. Professor Giles teaches courses on...
Cheryl Giles
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...
Joseph Goldstein
Linda Grace began meditating when she was quite young, and came to Buddhist practice in 1999. She is grateful to DaeJa Napier, her first teacher, who introduced her to the Brahmavihārā which have continued to be...
Linda Grace
Guo Gu (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. Guo Gu is also an Associate...
Guo Gu
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...
Charles Hallisey
Chenxing Han is the author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (North Atlantic Books, 2021), and numerous articles in Buddhadharma, Journal of Global Buddhism, Lion’s Roar, Pacific World, Tricycle, and elsewhere. She holds...
Chenxing Han
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...
Melanie L. Harris
Rashid Hughes is the co-founder of the Heart Refuge Mindfulness Community in Washington, DC dedicated to inspiring Black, Indigenous & People of Color to live with love and courage. In addition to teaching meditation, Rashid...
Rashid Hughes
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
Roger Jackson is John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, Emeritus, at Carleton College, Minnesota, where he taught the religions of South Asia and Tibet. He has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies...
Roger Jackson
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...
Pilar Jennings
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...
Philip Jones
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...
Georgia Kashnig
Dr. Stephanie Kaza is the author of Green Buddhism: Practice and Compassionate Action in Uncertain Times; Hooked! Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume; and Conversations with Trees: An Intimate Ecology....
Stephanie Kaza
Raised on a farm in rural Massachusetts, Justin Kelley spent ten years living in and around Tibetan refugee communities in India and Nepal, studying Tibetan language, Buddhist philosophy, and meditative practices. In 2010, he...
Justin Kelley
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...
Anne C. Klein (Rigzin Drolma)
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
Amer Latif is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in comparative religion and Islamic studies. He is particularly interested in the role of poetry, music, and ritual in religious practice. He has published translations of the poetry...
Amer Latif
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
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...
Rachel Lewis
Jared Lindahl, Ph.D is Visiting Assistant Professor in Brown University’s Department of Religious Studies and director of the humanities research track in the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab. Jared holds a Ph.D. in...
Jared Lindahl
Jessica Locke is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, MD. Her research explores Buddhist and Western moral psychology, cross-cultural philosophy, and phenomenology. She has studied and practiced Tibetan Buddhism for...
Jessica Locke
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...
David Loy
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...
Joanna Macy
Rhonda V. Magee, M.A., J.D., is 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 innovator,...
Rhonda Magee
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
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, and...
John Makransky
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...
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Catherine McGee has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats internationally since 1999. She is a member of the Gaia House teacher council, teaches yearly at IMS and BCBS and is a guiding teacher for One...
Catherine McGee
Elizabeth Monson, PhD, is the Spiritual Co-Director of Natural Dharma Fellowship and has taught at the Harvard Divinity School. She currently serves as the managing teacher of Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, a Buddhist meditation retreat...
Elizabeth Monson
Jessica Morey began practicing meditation at age fourteen, on teen retreats offered by the Insight Meditation Society. She is a meditation teacher who brings a sense of playfulness and care to her teaching and is...
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
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...
Walt Opie
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...
Ruth Ozeki
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...
Vance Pryor
Arisika Razak, MPH is professor emerita and the former Chair of the Women’s Spirituality Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her teachings incorporate diverse spiritual traditions, women's health and healing, and multicultural...
Arisika Razak
Tim Ream is a long-time Earth activist and Zen practitioner. He received lay ordination from Tenshin Reb Anderson in 1994 and has since engaged in ongoing, intensive residential practice, mostly at Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Tim Ream
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...
Nicola Redfern
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
Jess Row is a novelist, essayist, and senior dharma teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen, where he has been a student since 1994. His books include the novel Your Face in Mine and the essay collection White...
Jess Row
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 in spiritual direction, and also supports clients and organizations...
Peggy Rowe-Ward
Jaya Rudgard began meditating in 1984, after first hearing the dharma at Chithurst from Ajahn Sumedho and Kittisaro. She spent eight years as a nun at Amaravati and Chithurst monasteries. She has been a...
Jaya Rudgard
Tuere Sala is a Guiding Teacher at Seattle Insight Meditation Society (SIMS). She is a retired prosecuting attorney who has practiced Vipassana meditation for over 25 years and has been a practicing member of...
Tuere Sala
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...
Ayya Santussika
Bee Scherer has been practicing for decades in the Sakya and Kagyu traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and has served as a dharma teacher for fifteen years. A former professor of Religious and Gender Studies...
Bee Scherer
Dawn Scott has been practicing Insight Meditation since 2008 and served as the Family Program Coordinator for eight years at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She is a graduate of the Insight Meditation Society’s 2017...
Dawn Scott
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
Greg Seton, Senior Lecturer of Religion at Dartmouth, is a scholar of both ancient and modern Buddhist texts in Tibetan and Sanskrit, specializing in Buddhist philosophy and the theoretical frameworks for the meditational...
Gregory M. Seton
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
Aishah Shahidah Simmons (she/her) studied closely with the late Black feminist writer and filmmaker Toni Cade Bambara in the early 1990s She is a Black feminist lesbian cultural worker who has practiced vipassana meditation for 19-years—seventeen years were in...
Aishah Shahidah Simmons
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
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...
Ajahn Sucitto
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,...
Bhikkhu Sujato
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...
Heather Sundberg
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
Nolitha is a mindfulness teacher, psychologist and executive coach in South Africa. She has been a meditation practitioner for more than twenty years under Kittisaro and Thanissara, who are students of Ajahn Chah. Nolitha...
Nolitha Tsengiwe
Peace Twesigye is the Program Manager of Buddhist Studies at Union Theological Seminary. Peace assists in designing and overseeing curriculum in Buddhist Studies. Peace organizes and manages public and private conversations and events as part...
Peace Twesigye
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
Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Social Justice, and the Director of Peace and Justice Studies, at Warren Wilson College. She directs the Inside Out Prison Education Program, a partnership...
Rima Vesely-Flad
Trent Walker is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies and a Lecturer in Religious Studies at Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of California, Berkeley,...
Trent Walker
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...
Larry Ward
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...
Akincano Weber
Pamela Weiss is a Buddhist teacher and the author of “A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism.” She trained as a monastic at Tassajara Zen Mountain Monastery, sits on the teacher council at...
Pamela Weiss
Kate "Lila" Wheeler is grateful for the Asian roots of the Buddhist tradition and for the capacity of our hearts to be infused with ethics, caring and wisdom. She/they began training as a student...
Kate Lila Wheeler
Duncan Ryūken Williams was ordained as a Soto Zen Buddhist priest at Kotakuji Temple (Nagano, Japan) in 1993. He served as a Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 2000. Currently, he is Professor...
Duncan Ryūken Williams
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...
