About
Elliott Law is a meditation teacher and yoga instructor (CYT-200) affiliated with InsightLA, where he teaches Unwinding Anxiety, Mindful Eating, and Essentials of Mindfulness courses. He completed InsightLA's Mindfulness Facilitator Training and trained in behavior change facilitation with Judson Brewer, MD, PhD. Law has studied mindfulness since 2011 and maintains a personal practice. He co-facilitates the InsightLA LGBTQ+ Practice Group and leads the Mindful USC Mindfulness Practice Group in Downtown Los Angeles. He works with the USC Center for Mindfulness Science and presents mindfulness instruction to Keck Medicine of USC's fourth-year medical students. Law also integrates mindfulness into his work as a tennis instructor with over 20 years of experience. He holds an MS in mechanical engineering.
Teaching focus
Elliott Law, MS, CYT-200's teaching focus, drawn from the source profile, sits in the Insight and MBSR traditions. Several threads come up: steady attention to body and breath; the relationship between ethics and meditation; and short, direct teachings rather than long talks. On talks, the style is closer to thinking-along than presenting. Elliott Law, MS, CYT-200 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 anxiety, beginners, LGBTQ+. The bigger move Elliott Law, MS, CYT-200 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. Elliott Law, MS, CYT-200'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. Elliott Law, MS, CYT-200'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
Elliott Law, MS, CYT-200 teaches in the Insight and MBSR traditions. The teaching home is InsightLA. From the teacher's own profile: Elliott Law has studied mindfulness since 2011 and maintains a dedicated practice. At InsightLA, Elliott teaches Unwinding Anxiety and Mindful Eating Mindfulness-based Habit Change courses, Essentials of Mindfulness courses, and co-facilitates the LGBTQ+ Practice Group. A graduate of InsightLA’s Mindfulness Facilitator Training program, Elliott is also a certified yoga teacher and qualified behavior change facilitator through training with Judson Brewer, MD, PhD. He will complete mindful movement specialty teacher training in 2023. Elliott supports mindfulness at USC as a Mindful USC teacher and the Associate Director of Fundraising for the USC Center for Mindfulness Science. In 2015, he established the Mindful USC Mindfulness Practice Group in Downtown LA, which he leads weekly. Elliott also regularly presents on mindfulness for Keck Medicine of USC fourth year medical students. The sport of tennis is a long-time passion for Elliott. He is a U.S. Professional Tennis Association Elite Professional with over 20 years of teaching experience and integrates mindfulness concepts into his tennis instruction to enhance focus. Elliott loves to connect with nature and wildlife and gets very excited whenever he encounters a bird he has not seen before. He holds an MS in mechanical engineering and works as an associate director with Keck Medicine of USC’s Advancement team. In the Insight stream Elliott Law, MS, CYT-200 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. Elliott Law, MS, CYT-200'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. Elliott Law, MS, CYT-200'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. Elliott Law, MS, CYT-200'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
Elliott Law, MS, CYT-200 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 Elliott Law, MS, CYT-200, 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.
