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...
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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...
Heidi Bourne
Heidi Bourne is a meditation teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition and is the founder and guiding teacher of Pacific Mindfulness. She has been teaching since 2005 offering classes, series courses, nature retreats, trauma-informed...
Deborah Eden Tull
Deborah Eden Tull, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, is a Zen meditation/mindfulness teacher, author, spiritual activist, and sustainability educator. She spent seven years as a monastic at a silent Zen Monastery, and has been...
Leslie Booker
Leslie Booker brings her heart and wisdom to the intersection of Dharma, Embodied Wisdom, and Liberation. Using this framework, she supports folks in creating a culture of belonging through her teaching and writing on...
Celeste Young
Celeste Young is a Theravadin Buddhist mindfulness and Dharma teacher who has been practicing meditation and sitting retreats for over 20 years. She was one of the first teachers to be empowered at InsightLA,...
Roxanne Dault
Roxanne Dault has been dedicated to this path for two decades, sitting on long retreats both in Asia and in the West. A Guiding Teacher at True North Insight in Canada, Roxanne teaches at...