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Pamela Weiss is a dual lineage Buddhist teacher in Soto Zen and Theravada. After living as a monastic at Tassajara Zen Mountain Monastery, she completed comprehensive retreat teacher training through Spirit Rock Meditation Center....
Jonny White
Jonny White is a Psychotherapist, Meditator and Psychotherapy Trainer. He has worked as a Mindfulness-Based Core Process Psychotherapist for over 20 years and is Co-Director at Karuna Institute in the UK. Karuna Institute has...
Nirmala Werner
Nirmala has been practicing meditation (Vipassana) since 2002. She finished her degree in social work in the Netherlands, where she worked with homeless and drug addicted people. Her wish to support disadvantaged people and...
Kate Johnson
Kate Johnson teaches classes and retreats integrating Buddhist meditation, somatics, social justice and creativity at the Rubin Museum in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, the Kripalu...
Jessica Morey
Jessica Morey (she/her) is the head teacher and organizational systems architect at Ten Percent Happier. She leads meditation retreats across the US and offers one to one meditation and leadership coaching. She also cofounded and teaches with Inward Bound...
Ayala Gill
Ayala Gill has been committed to a path of insight and awakening since her early twenties. She has been practising Iyengar yoga since 1977, Insight Meditation and dharma since 1995, Insight Yoga (including yin...
Brian Dean Williams
Brian Dean Williams is a registered clinical counsellor, activist, and Buddhist teacher who lives, works, and plays with his family as a settler on Coast Salish Territories aka the Sunshine Coast, BC. For the past...
Stephen Fulder
Stephen Fulder, Ph.D, is one of Israel’s leading spiritual teachers, and founder of the Israel Insight Society (Tovana). He has been teaching Buddhist teachings and meditation practice to thousands of people over the last 20...
Leela Sarti
Leela has been a teacher in the Buddhist Insight Meditation tradition for over 25 years and leads retreats in many locations in Europe and as well as supports long term students individually. Leela is...
James Baraz
James Baraz is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California where he started the Community Dharma Leader Program, Kalyana Mitta Network, and the Family Program. James has been teaching his...









