About
Elizabeth Stomp is a mindfulness meditation teacher based in Los Angeles affiliated with InsightLA. She has practiced since 2013 and completed training in Tibetan Buddhism with Geshe Tashi Tsering at Jamyang Buddhist Centre. Stomp completed mindfulness teacher certification through Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield at the Awareness Training Institute and UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, as well as InsightLA's Facilitator Training Program. She is trained in Mindful Self-Compassion through the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion and UC San Diego. Stomp also holds certifications in transformational life coaching and spiritual psychology. She serves on InsightLA's Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging committee.
Teaching focus
Elizabeth Stomp's teaching focus, drawn from the source profile, sits in the Insight and Tibetan traditions. Several threads come up: compassion training that doesn't collapse into pity or burnout;. On talks, the style is closer to thinking-along than presenting. Elizabeth Stomp 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. The bigger move Elizabeth Stomp 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. Elizabeth Stomp'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. Elizabeth Stomp'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. Elizabeth Stomp'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
Elizabeth Stomp teaches in the Insight and Tibetan traditions. The teaching home is InsightLA. From the teacher's own profile: Elizabeth Hernandez-Stomp (ella, ellas, she, hers) has been a dedicated mindfulness meditation practitioner since 2013. Her interest and love for the Dharma led her to pursue further studies in the Tibetan Buddhism lineage with Geshe Tashi Tsering of Jamyang Buddhist Centre, completing his international program ‘The Foundation of Buddhist Thought.’ She has also completed the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield through the Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California at Berkeley. A graduate of InsightLA’s Facilitator Training Program (FTP4) led by Trudy Goodman, Maureen Shannon-Chapple, and Gullu Singh. InsightLA’s Senior Teacher Celeste Young is also her personal mentor. Elizabeth is a part of InsightLA’s Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Committee. She’s a Mindfulness Self-Compassion Trained Teacher from the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion & the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. Elizabeth is also a part of Spirit Rock’s 2-year Dedicated Practitioners Program (DPP7), set to complete in 2024. In addition, Elizabeth is a certified Transformational Life Coach, Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner from the iPEC Coaching, and holds a Spiritual Psychology: Soul-Centered Living certification from the University of Santa Monica. Elizabeth holds a Bachelor’s degree in Theater, Communications, and Literature from the University of Sacred Heart, Puerto Rico, and the University of Miami, Florida. She’s committed to sharing the practices of mindfulness meditation, heart practices, compassion, and love for those who wish to find refuge, inner peace, and happiness in their lives. Also an advocate for empowering people and communities, Elizabeth has collaborated with the Healing Hands Foundation in Kenya, Africa, and served as a board member for Foundation For American Education Overseas, bringing education opportunities to overseas countries, specifically Africa and Asia. Through one-on-one life coaching, group coaching, workshops, speaking engagements, and meditation sanghas, her work assists and supports clients and students in deepening their spiritual practice, developing life skills, and living mindfully. She teaches and facilitates in both Spanish and English language. Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Elizabeth now lives with her family in Southern California, on unceded Tongva, Chumash, and Kizh territories. In the Insight stream Elizabeth Stomp 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.
Lineage
Elizabeth Stomp teaches as a lay teacher in the Insight and Tibetan 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 Elizabeth Stomp, 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.
