Brian Dean Williams
Brian Dean Williams is a registered clinical counsellor, activist, and Buddhist teacher who lives, works, and plays with his family as a settler on Coast Salish Territories aka the Sunshine Coast, BC. For the past...
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Stephen Fulder
Stephen Fulder, Ph.D, is one of Israel’s leading spiritual teachers, and founder of the Israel Insight Society (Tovana). He has been teaching Buddhist teachings and meditation practice to thousands of people over the last 20...
Leela Sarti
Leela has been a teacher in the Buddhist Insight Meditation tradition for over 25 years and leads retreats in many locations in Europe and as well as supports long term students individually. Leela is...
James Baraz
James Baraz is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California where he started the Community Dharma Leader Program, Kalyana Mitta Network, and the Family Program. James has been teaching his...
Ralph Steele
Ralph Steele has taught meditation since 1987. He completed a year of intensive practice as a Theravada monk in Myanmar and Thailand; in 2000 he completed a four year teacher training with Jack Kornfield. He...
Nina La Rosa
Nina La Rosa has been practicing and studying meditation since 2004 and teaching for almost 20 years. She trained closely with Shinzen Young, who prepared her to teach, and her first teacher and longtime...
Thanissara
Thanissara (she/her), originally from London, started Buddhist practice in the Burmese school of U Ba Khin in 1975. She was inspired to ordain after meeting Ajahn Chah and spent 12 years as a Buddhist...
Vimalasara Mason-John
Vimalasara (Valerie) Mason-John is the author of the timely book I am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin (2020), a Black Buddhist response to what has been happening in the world. They...
Sophie Boyer
Sophie was born in France. She started practicing Buddhist meditation in 2000 during her time providing nursing care. After 10 years spent in hospices surrounded by the theme of aging, sickness and death, she...
Ronya Banks
The founding teacher of the Asheville Insight Meditation community in Asheville, NC, USA, Ronya Banks has over 38 years of intensive Vipassana meditation practice, spending more than two years cumulatively on numerous silent meditation...