Teaching Faculty

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

Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned and daring creative pioneers. Best known for her multimedia presentations, innovative use of technology and first-person style, she is a writer, director, visual artist and vocalist...

Laurie Anderson

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 has been a devoted practitioner of insight meditation since 2003, combining practices from other streams of Therevada Buddhism. Since 2013 he’s practiced with the guidance of Rob Burbea, and in 2020 completed...

Yahel Avigur

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

Martine Batchelor was a Buddhist nun in Korea for ten years. She studied Son Buddhism under the guidance of the late Master Kusan and translated his book 'The Way of Korean Zen'. Following Master...

Martine Batchelor

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

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

Jeanne Corrigal has been practicing since 1999, is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leader Program, and the guiding teacher for theSaskatoon Insight Meditation Community. Jeanne is a member of the mixed heritage Métis...

Jeanne Corrigal

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

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

Alisa Dennis, Ph.D., discovered meditation through her study of metaphysics and Christian mystical traditions. She practiced within the S.N. Goenka tradition of Vipassana, then studied mindfulness through the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA....

Alisa Dennis

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

Rosalyn Driscoll is a visual artist whose sculpture, installation, collage and photography is sourced in the body and sensory perception. She animates her sculptural works through video, dance and theater, and collaborates with scientists....

Rosalyn Driscoll

William Edelglass is Director of Studies at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He is a scholar who has practiced in several Buddhist traditions. In addition to teaching at dharma centers, William taught...

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

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

Francisco Morillo Gable studies and practices Early Buddhism with Bhikkhu Anālayo and Gil Fronsdal. After fifteen years of rehabilitation with the Dhamma following an accident in 2003 that rendered him disabled, and after an...

Francisco Morillo Gable

Jay L. Garfield is the Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Buddhist Studies at Smith College. He chairs the Philosophy department and directs Smith’s logic and Buddhist studies...

Jay L. Garfield

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

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) 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

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

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...

Rachel Hammerman

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

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

Devon Hase, MAT, MFA, began meditation training in 2001. After spending a decade as a classroom teacher of high school and community college students, she entered a two-year period of retreat. Following this, Devon was...

Devon Hase

Craig Hase, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and mindfulness teacher. He began intensive meditation training in 1994, and lived at a Zen monastery for six years before earning a PhD from UW-Madison's counseling psychology...

Craig Hase

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 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

Georgia Kashnig is an independent scholar whose research focuses on the East Asian Buddhist world, and Japan in particular. She received a Master of Theological Studies in Buddhist Studies at Harvard Divinity School and...

Georgia Kashnig

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

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

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

Rachel Lewis is a participant in the 2017-2021 IMS Teacher Training Program, as well as a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioners Program and Community Dharma Leaders training. She began practicing meditation while completing...

Rachel Lewis

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

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 Associate Professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College, senior advisor for Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche’s Centre of Buddhist Studies in Nepal, former president of the Society of Buddhist-Christian studies,...

John Makransky

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...

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 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

Rev. Daiken Nelson, Sensei began Zen practice 33 years ago in Iowa, where he was born. Since that time, he has practiced with several teachers within the White Plum Zen Lineage of Taizan Maezumi...

Rev. Daiken Nelson

Walt Opie has practiced insight meditation with various teachers since 1993. He leads sitting groups for people in recovery and serves as a volunteer teacher with Buddhist Pathways Prison Project. A graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community...

Walt Opie

Lama Rod Owens is an author, activist, and authorized Lama (Buddhist Teacher) in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and is considered one of the leaders of his generation of Buddhist teachers. He holds...

Lama Rod Owens

Claire Petitmengin After studies in Buddhist philosophy and ten years of consulting and research on information system design, Claire Petitmengin completed a PhD thesis under the supervision of Francisco Varela at the Ecole Polytechnique...

Claire Petitmengin

Nicola Redfern is an Insight Dialogue teacher with an extensive background in both Zen and Vipassana meditation. She has been trained to teach Insight Dialogue by founding teacher Gregory Kramer. With a strong belief...

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

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 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 SIMS...

Tuere Sala

Dawn Scott has been practicing insight meditation since 2008 and coordinated Spirit Rock's Family Program for nine years. She is a teacher-trainee in the current Insight Meditation Society’s teacher training program and is a...

Dawn Scott

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

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 European 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

Kate "Lila" Wheeler is one of the coordinators of the 2016-2020 meditation teacher training at Spirit Rock, the most diverse teacher training to date in Western convert Buddhism. She was given rein to teach in the...

Kate Lila Wheeler

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...

Polly Young-Eisendrath