Pascal Auclair
Immersed in meditation practice and study since 1997 and trained by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield, Pascal Auclair is a teacher who brings a blend of playful humor and deep warmth to his teachings....
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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...
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...
Richard Baker Rōshi
Zentatsu Richard Baker is the Founder of the Dharma Sangha Centers in the United States and Europe. In September 2024, he retired as the Abbot of the Dharma Sangha and passed the responsibility on...
Johann Robbins
Johann Robbins first began meditating while in college in 1974. He was asked by Eric Kolvig to begin teaching in 2008, and completed Community Dharma Leader teacher training at Spirit Rock shortly thereafter. His...
Dene Donalds
Dene Donalds has practiced and studied Dharma since the mid nineties, practicing with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s tradition since 2001. He received lay ordination in 2007 and became a lay Dharma teacher in...
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...
Caverly Morgan
Caverly Morgan is a teacher of awakening, nonprofit founder, speaker, and author who blends the original spirit of Zen with a modern nondual and relational approach. Caverly was named one of 2025’s most powerful...
Jay Rinsen Weik
Jay Rinsen Weik Roshi (he/him) began studying Zen as a child—reading Shunryu Suzuki’s Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind at age eight—and entered formal training in 1987 with John Daido Loori Roshi at Zen Mountain Monastery...
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...