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Reflections from our teachers
Anna-Brown Griswold has been practicing and studying in the Buddhist tradition for over 30 years, primarily in the Tibetan and Zen koan lineages. Her journey has included monastic practice, extended solitary retreats, a Master’s...
Rosalie Dores
Rosalie Dores is an Insight Dialogue Retreat Teacher. She has been practicing meditation and yoga for over 30 years. The combination of both has evolved into a somatically informed approach to teaching dharma. Rosie’s...
Ulla Koenig
Ulla Koenig is a mindfulness and meditation teacher in the Vipassana tradition. She teaches insight meditation retreats in various centres in Germany as well as in social institutions and prisons. She works with social activists,...
Nolitha Tsengiwe
Nolitha Tsengiwe is a Dharma teacher and board member at Dharmagiri Retreat Center, in South Africa that was founded by Kittisaro and Thanissara. She has practiced since 1997 under Kittisaro and Thanissara, who are...
Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison
Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, is an author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, and Certified Chaplaincy Educator. After many years as a chaplain and psychotherapist, Koshin co-founded the New York Zen Center for...
Jaya Rudgard
Jaya Rudgard is an insight meditation and mindfulness teacher based in Oxford, England. She leads retreats and courses in the UK and internationally, and teaches regularly at Gaia House in Devon and Insight Meditation...
Drs Larry Ward and Peggy Rowe Ward
Dr. Larry Ward is the co-founder and Executive Director of The Lotus Institute and a senior teacher in Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village tradition. He has a PhD in Religious Studies with...
Frank Ostaseski
Frank Ostaseski is an internationally respected Buddhist teacher and visionary cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, and founder of the Metta Institute. He has lectured at Harvard Medical School, the Mayo Clinic, and leading...
Juha Penttilä
Juha Penttilä has been practicing meditation since 2002. He has spent extended periods of time on retreats and in monasteries in Asia and Europe and is one of the founding members of Nirodha, the...
Sean Oakes
Sean Oakes, PhD (he/him, queer, of Spanish/Puerto Rican and Northern European ancestry living on unceded Pomo land in California), teaches Buddhism, Yoga, and somatic practice. He has studied in Theravāda, Zen, and Vajrāyāna Buddhist...









