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...
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...
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:...
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...
David Loy
David Robert Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Zen tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. He is a prolific author, whose essays and books have been translated into many languages....
Santacitta Bhikkhuni
Santacitta Bhikkhuni Theri was born in Austria and did her graduate studies in Cultural Anthropology, focusing on dance, theatre and ritual. She also worked in avant-garde dance theatre as a performer and costume designer....
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...
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...