Gavin Harrison
Gavin Harrison (1950 – 2018) was the author and poet of Petals and Blood: Stories, Dharma and Poems of Ecstasy, Awakening and Annihilation and In the Lap of the Buddha. He was a recipient...
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Kittisaro
Kittisaro is from Tennessee. He graduated from Princeton as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford before going to Thailand to ordain with Ajahn Chah in 1976. He was a monk for 15 years and helped...
Shakya Kumara
Shakya Kumara had graduated from Cambridge University with first class honours by the age of 20, but at age 21 he burnt out with Chronic Fatigue, and spent three years recovering. Mindfulness as taught...
Wes Nisker
Wes Nisker is a Buddhist meditation teacher, author and performer. For nearly 40 years Wes has also worked in radio, winning the Billboard Magazine, Columbia School of Journalism, and San Francisco Media Alliance awards...
Pannavati Bikkhuni
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...