Melissa Blacker
Melissa Myōzen Blacker, Rōshi, is a Sōtō Zen priest, and a Dharma heir to James Myōun Ford, Rōshi in two lineages: an ordained Sōtō transmission through Jiyu Kennett, Rōshi and a lay kōan-teaching lineage...
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David Cabrera
David Cabrera has been a Vipassana practitioner and instructor since 2007 and received certification through Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program in 2021. He currently mentors and is part of...
Caverly Morgan
Caverly Morgan is a spiritual teacher, non-profit founder, speaker and writer who blends the original spirit of Zen with a modern nondual approach. She is the author of The Heart of Who We Are:...
Charlie Morley
Charlie Morley is a teacher of lucid dreaming, shadow work and mindfulness of dreams and sleep. He is also a bestselling Hay House author, two times TED speaker and Mindvalley lucid dreaming coach. Charlie...
Milo North Burn
Milo North Burn (he/him) has practiced for over twenty years in the Insight Meditation and Soto Zen traditions, including several cumulative years of silent retreat and about five years in monastic communities such as...
Nathan Glyde
Nathan Glyde began meditating in 1997, and teaching retreats in 2007. From continued exploration grew a deep love for meditation’s alive stillness and creative silence. Feeling the potential for all of life to play...
Devon and Nico Hase
Devon and Nico Hase serve as guiding teachers of the online dharma community Refuge of Belonging. They teach at the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock, and other centers, offer online and in-person retreats, and...
Chris Germer
Chris Germer, PhD is a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School. He co-developed the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program with Kristin Neff in 2010 and they wrote two books, The...
Isa Gucciardi
Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. is an author, teacher, and co-founder of the Foundation of the Sacred Stream, a school for consciousness studies located in Berkeley, CA. She is the creator of Depth Hypnosis™, a groundbreaking...
Maura Sills
Maura Sills is the founder of Core Process Psychotherapy and founder of the Karuna Institute, Dartmoor. The Karuna Institute offered Masters Degree Trainings in Buddhist informed Psychotherapy Trainings Accredited with the U.K. Council for...