About
Dina Aish is an educator and mindfulness teacher with a doctorate in education. She teaches mindfulness and social-emotional learning at the college level and in elementary school settings throughout Los Angeles. She is a founding teacher with Insight in Schools and holds certification as a Mindful Self-Compassion teacher from UC San Diego's Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute and the Center for Mindful Self Compassion. She is also a graduate of InsightLA's Facilitator Training Program and received training from the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. She serves as co-chair of the Ethics and Reconciliation Council at InsightLA and has led diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice initiatives at InsightLA and the Center for Mindful Self Compassion. She teaches at universities, public schools, wellness centers, organizations serving unhoused populations and refugees, and in private practice.
Teaching focus
Dina Aish, EdD's teaching focus, drawn from the source profile, sits in the Insight and MBSR traditions. Several threads come up: compassion training that doesn't collapse into pity or burnout; dharma applied to social and collective suffering;. On talks, the style is closer to thinking-along than presenting. Dina Aish, EdD works with whatever shows up in the room rather than reading from notes, which is part of why these talks land as conversational instead of scripted. Short pauses, longer sits, and questions that come back to direct experience are usual. Listed specialties on the source profile include stress, in-person. The bigger move Dina Aish, EdD keeps making is back toward attention itself: what's happening, how it's being held, and what gets in the way. That keeps the teaching close to practice rather than drifting into commentary about practice. For talks, schedules, and longer essays, the affiliated organization's page is where the live material lives. Dina Aish, EdD's sessions tend to keep returning to the body, to breath, and to the felt quality of attention as the steady ground that the rest rests on. Dina Aish, EdD's sessions tend to keep returning to the body, to breath, and to the felt quality of attention as the steady ground that the rest rests on.
Background
Dina Aish, EdD teaches in the Insight and MBSR traditions. The teaching home is InsightLA. From the teacher's own profile: Dina is an educator and mindfulness teacher with a doctorate degree in education and teaches methods and social emotional learning professionally at the college level and to elementary school faculties throughout Los Angeles, CA. She is a founding teacher with the Insight in Schools program and has a passion for supporting teachers with mindfulness and self-compassion. She received certification as a Mindful Self-Compassion teacher from UC San Diego’s Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute and the Center for Mindful Self Compassion. She is also a graduate of InsightLA’s Facilitator Training Program and received training in mindfulness facilitation from the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. She has been a team leader in the work of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging and Justice (DEIBJ) at the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion and at InsightLA, where she is co-chair of the Ethics and Reconciliation Council. She teaches mindfulness and compassion courses at universities, public schools, insight and wellness centers internationally, spaces for the unhoused, NGOs supporting refugees, and for other organizations as well as individuals privately. You can contact her at [email protected]. In the Insight stream Dina Aish, EdD works inside, the emphasis is on direct attention to body, feeling tone, and mind, alongside the brahmaviharas and an ongoing investigation of how clinging and aversion arise. Talks tend to be conversational rather than scripted, and there's room for sila and ethics to be talked about as part of practice rather than as a separate topic. Dina Aish, EdD's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Dina Aish, EdD's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Dina Aish, EdD's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Dina Aish, EdD's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Dina Aish, EdD's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography.
Lineage
Dina Aish, EdD teaches as a lay teacher in the Insight and MBSR traditions. The institutional home, per the source listing, is InsightLA, and that's where most of the public teaching schedule and any retreat offerings will be posted. The Insight lineage in the West runs through teachers like Mahasi Sayadaw, U Ba Khin, Anagarika Munindra, and Dipa Ma into the founders of IMS, Spirit Rock, and the regional centers, and most contemporary Insight teachers position themselves somewhere in that broad family.
What to expect
On a class or retreat with Dina Aish, EdD, the basic shape is short instruction, longer sittings, and some Q&A. The container is shaped by InsightLA, so format details, fees, and access policies follow that organization's norms. Expect plenty of silence, less talking-at-you than you might think, and an emphasis on letting the practice do its work rather than chasing experiences. For exact dates, registration, and any sliding-scale or scholarship information, There's usually a short Q&A window and, on retreats, optional teacher interviews where students can bring specific questions about their practice. There's usually a short Q&A window and, on retreats, optional teacher interviews where students can bring specific questions about their practice.
