About
Gulwinder Singh is a corporate attorney and Insight Meditation practitioner. He teaches at InsightLA and Spirit Rock Meditation Center and is currently enrolled in Spirit Rock's four-year teacher training program. He is trained in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and serves as a core teacher in the Warrior One Mindfulness in Law Teacher Training and InsightLA's Mindfulness Facilitator Training. He teaches meditation in corporate, legal, and academic settings, including USC and UCLA Law School.
Teaching focus
Singh's core teaching draws on mindfulness of breathing, open awareness, noting practice. The frame is the insight tradition transmitted through teachers like Mahasi Sayadaw and U Ba Khin into the West, but the language stays plain. Singh doesn't lecture from height. The talks tend to think alongside whatever's actually present in the room. Recurring themes include sati, sampajanna, and the three characteristics. None of those get presented as abstract ideas. They're worked into the body, into ethics, into how a practitioner shows up in family life or at work, so that the dharma stops feeling like a separate compartment. There's a steady invitation in the talks to keep practice human-sized. Sit when you can, return when you've drifted, and trust that small consistent attention does more over the years than dramatic breakthroughs. Format-wise, Singh teaches in online, in-person, group, and the tone moves easily between guided sittings, dharma talks, and Q&A. Questions tend to get answered the way they were asked, without being reframed into something cleaner. That alone tells you a lot about how the room feels.
Background
Gulwinder Singh is a corporate attorney and Insight Meditation practitioner. He teaches at InsightLA and Spirit Rock Meditation Center and is currently enrolled in Spirit Rock's four-year teacher training program. He is trained in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and serves as a core teacher in the Warrior One Mindfulness in Law Teacher Training and InsightLA's Mindfulness Facilitator Training. He teaches meditation in corporate, legal, and academic settings, including USC and UCLA Law School. Gulwinder “Gullu” Singh is a corporate attorney and dedicated Dharma practitioner. He teaches regularly at InsightLA and Spirit Rock Meditation Center and has taught meditation at USC, as a guest lecturer at UCLA Law School, in law firms, at legal conferences and in corporate settings. Gullu is trained to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and is currently in the 4-year Spirit Rock Meditation Center Teacher Training Program. He is core teacher in the Warrior One Mindfulness in Law Teacher Training and InsightLA’s Mindfulness Facilitator Training. Gullu is deeply inspired to share meditation as a way to work with the challenges of being a human being and to inject more sanity, compassion and wisdom into this world. Singh teaches across several communities, including Insight Meditation Center, Insight Retreat Center. That work sits within the insight tradition transmitted through teachers like Mahasi Sayadaw and U Ba Khin into the West, and the recurring concerns of Singh's teaching, ethical foundation, steady attention, and the slow softening of habitual reactivity, echo the older texts without sounding distant from a 21st-century practitioner's life. What stands out across Singh's talks isn't a single technique but a steadying tone. Practice is treated as something built slowly, in ordinary life, with care. There's room for the difficulties practitioners actually bring into the room, grief, restlessness, the body's complaints, family obligations, and the encouragement is consistent without being pushy.
Lineage
Singh teaches within the insight tradition transmitted through teachers like Mahasi Sayadaw and U Ba Khin into the West. Current affiliations include Insight Meditation Center, Insight Retreat Center. The lineage shows up less in titles than in the way Singh talks about practice, with steady reference to the older Buddhist vocabulary while keeping the door open for people who've never read a sutra. Whether that framing lands as monastic or lay depends on the specific talk, but the consistent thread is care for the form without letting the form become the point.
What to expect
Sitting with Singh, you can expect grounded instruction in mindfulness of breathing, with space to ask questions and bring whatever's actually showing up in your practice. Online sessions tend to keep the same shape, shorter sits, a talk, and time for Q&A, in a format that's accessible from home. Group settings have a community feel without becoming social. People sit, listen, and check in. The teaching voice is steady. Singh won't push you past your edge, and there's a clear preference for slow, sustainable practice over breakthrough chasing. Bring a notebook if you like, or don't. Either way, you'll be met where you are.
