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Reflections from our teachers
Wiebke Pausch has been studying Buddhist teachings for over twenty-five years. She was among the first teachers of Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) in France and Germany, and has been offering the MSC Training internationally since...
Diana Winston
Diana Winston is the Director of UCLA Mindful, the mindfulness education center of UCLA Health. She is the author of The Little Book of Being (2019), Wide Awake for Teens (2003), and the co-author,...
Vince Cullen
Vince Cullen has been associated with Wat Thamkrabok monastery in Thailand and Buddhist-oriented alcohol and other drug recovery since 1998. He founded the Fifth Precept mindfulness for recovery group and teaches ‘Hungry Ghost’ recovery...
Akincano Weber
Akincano Weber is a European Buddhist teacher and contemplative psychotherapist (MA). A former monk, he has lived and practised for 20 years in European and Thai Forest monasteries. Today he is the guiding teacher...
Pamela Weiss
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...









