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Ven. Pannavati Bikkhuni, a former Christian pastor, is co-founder and co-Abbot of Embracing-Simplicity Hermitage in Hendersonville, NC. A black, female Buddhist monk ordained in the Theravada and Mahayana traditions with Vajrayana empowerments and transmission...
Sandra Maitri
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Yanai Postelnik
Yanai Postelnik has been involved in spiritual practice and exploration for much of his adult life. Yanai encountered the teachings of the Buddha and the practice of Insight Meditation while in Asia in 1989, and...
Tuere Sala
Tuere Sala is a Guiding Teacher at Spirit Rock Retreat Center and Seattle Insight. She is a retired prosecuting attorney who has practiced Vipassana meditation for over 30 years. Tuere is committed to lay practice...
Alexis Santos
Alexis Santos has practiced Insight Meditation since 2001, studying in India, Burma and the US. In 2003 he practiced as a Buddhist monk for several years under Sayadaw U Tejaniya who continues to be a...
Ayya Santussika
Ayya Santussika grew up on a farm in the USA near Chicago, raised two children and was a software designer and engineer before ordaining as a bhikkhuni in the Theravadan tradition. She began meditation...
Lama Justin von Bujdoss
Lama Justin von Bujdoss is an American vajrayana Buddhist teacher, writer, and the is a co-founder of Bhumisparsha an experimental Buddhist sangha along with Lama Rod Owens. He is the author of Modern Tantric Buddhism: Authenticity...
Tara Brach
Tara Brach is a leading Western teacher of Buddhist meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening. She has practiced and taught meditation for over 35 years, with an emphasis on vipassana (mindfulness or insight) meditation....
Joan Tollifson
Joan Tollifson writes and talks about the ever-changing, ever-present living reality Here/Now. She is interested in seeing through the imaginary problems that we think are binding us, the stories of lack and imperfection, and...
James Rafael
James Rafael is a mindfulness and movement coach, teaching while travelling nomadically through all the joyful chaos the world has to offer. He began formal practice in 2011 under the teachings of S. N....









