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Ajahn Sucitto teaches within the Theravada tradition. He conducts retreats that incorporate both vipassana instruction and Qi Gong practice. Sucitto emphasizes the role of moral foundation and persona…

Mark Nunberg teaches at Common Ground Meditation Center. He has given over 2,200 talks and led more than 2,000 retreats. His work is documented in videos available through the center's YouTube channel…

Working with Tara feels like permission to stop fighting yourself. She teaches you that your difficult thoughts and emotions aren't flaws—they're just waves moving through you. With over thirty-five y…

James Baraz teaches in the Theravada tradition, drawing on the teachings of Ajahn Chah. He conducts meditation instruction and leads retreats. Baraz emphasizes direct investigation into the nature of …

Joseph Goldstein teaches in the Vipassana tradition of Theravada Buddhism. He has given 941 talks and led 115 retreats. Goldstein draws on various Buddhist schools while emphasizing core teachings on …

Marcia Rose teaches you how to find the spaciousness that's already there. When you sit with her, you'll notice how presence naturally untangles you from old patterns—not through force, but through th…

Christina Feldman teaches in the Vipassana tradition of Buddhism. She has given 684 talks and led 5 retreats. Her teaching addresses the relationship between personal experience and non-personal aware…

Jack Kornfield is a Dharma teacher in the Theravada tradition. He has given 683 talks and led retreats. His teaching centers on mindfulness practice and its role in breaking habitual patterns and cond…

Steve Armstrong has spent decades studying how the mind actually works—and he knows how to help you see it too. With him, you're not just learning theory. You're getting a teacher who's spent nearly a…

Sylvia's teaching feels like sitting with someone who actually gets it—because she's lived it. As a psychotherapist, parent, and grandparent, she doesn't offer abstract wisdom. She offers her own stor…

Ayya Santussika was born in Illinois in 1954 and grew up on a farm in Indiana. She earned BS and MS degrees in computer science while raising two children as a single mother, then worked as a software…

Christopher Titmuss teaches insight meditation (vipassana) within the Theravada tradition. He has given 544 talks and led 65 retreats. Titmuss addresses both meditation practice and its application to…

Howard Cohn teaches mindfulness and awareness practice within the Insight tradition. He has led 531 talks and 87 retreats. Cohn's teaching centers on present-moment awareness and its relationship to s…

Eugene Cash teaches in the Theravada tradition. He emphasizes mindfulness of the body as a central practice, drawing on Buddhist teachings about the body as a dharma gate. Cash encourages investigatio…

When you sit with Mark, you'll notice how naturally he weaves together the quiet of the forest and the work of understanding your own mind. He's spent decades hiking and backpacking—not as escape, but…

Carol Wilson teaches in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, focusing on mindfulness practice based on the Buddha's teachings. Wilson emphasizes practical, accessible instruction in meditation techniques…

Working with Larry, you'll experience what it's like to actually settle into silence—not as something distant, but as something your own mind can access. He's spent decades exploring what gets in the …

With Rodney, you'll find permission to slow down. His teaching carries a quiet urgency—not the pushy kind, but the kind that comes from sitting with people at life's edges. He's spent years in Thai fo…

Sayadaw U Tejaniya is a Theravada Buddhist teacher who trained as a monk in the Burmese tradition. He previously lived as a householder before ordaining, giving him experience with lay practitioners' …

Ayya Medhanandi is a Theravada Buddhist nun ordained in the Burmese tradition under Sayādaw U Pandita Mahāthera at the Yangon Mahasi retreat centre in 1988. She trained in the Ajahn Chah Thai Forest S…

Working with Sharda, you'll notice something shift: the gap between your meditation cushion and your actual life starts to close. She has a gift for meeting you where you are, listening to what you're…

Akincano Marc Weber teaches within the Theravada tradition. He has given 298 talks and led 15 retreats. His teaching approach emphasizes translating contemplative practice into contemporary psychologi…

Working with Michele feels like permission to stop trying so hard. She meets you exactly where you are—not where you think you should be. With nearly 80 retreats and hundreds of talks under her belt, …

Dawn Neal completed Dharma teacher training with Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella in 2025. Before teaching full time, she worked as an Interfaith Chaplain at Stanford Medicine. Her writing has appeared i…

Guy Armstrong teaches in the Theravada vipassana tradition. He has given 278 talks and led 51 retreats. Armstrong focuses on making Buddhist concepts accessible through plain language, particularly th…

Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is a Theravada monk and meditation teacher. He spent fifteen years in missionary and monastic work in India and Malaysia before relocating to the United States. He served as…

When you sit with Sharon's teachings, you'll notice something shifts. She's not asking you to believe anything on faith alone—instead, she's inviting you to see for yourself what meditation actually d…

Ajahn Amaro is co-abbot of Abhayagiri Monastery. He teaches within the Theravada tradition and the Forest Tradition lineage. His teaching centers on monastic training and classical Buddhist practice, …

With Myoshin, you won't get a lot of fancy words—just clear, simple guidance that actually lands. She listens to where you are right now and meets you there. Her teaching rests on two things: lovingki…

Mary brings a rare kind of permission to practice: she won't rush you toward answers. Instead, she'll sit with your questions—the real, messy ones—and let them breathe. That's where the actual opening…

Kate Munding is founder of The Heart-Mind Education Project, a consulting business that works with schools and educational institutions on mindfulness integration. She has given 168 talks and led 17 r…

Shelly Graf is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with a Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Minnesota (2003). Graf has given 163 talks and led 31 retreats. Their work add…

Narayan Helen Liebenson teaches you that meditation isn't something you do only on a cushion—it's how you live. You'll learn to bring the same clarity to washing dishes or talking with a friend as you…

Anna Douglas teaches meditation and explores connections between meditation practice and creative work. She is based in a Buddhist Dharma tradition and has led 20 retreats and 124 talks. Douglas teach…

Gil Fronsdal teaches vipassana meditation with a focus on adapting Buddhist practice to American contexts. He holds graduate training in Buddhist studies. Fronsdal has led 25 retreats and given 124 ta…

John Travis teaches meditation grounded in personal practice rather than scholarly study. His teaching has evolved over three decades of practice, initially focusing on working with suffering and conf…

Arinna Weisman teaches in the Theravada lineage, tracing her root teachers to Ruth Denison and U Bha Khin. She emphasizes moment-to-moment awareness practice without ritual or special equipment. Her t…

Thanissaro Bhikkhu is a Theravada Buddhist monk trained in the Thai Forest tradition under Ajahn Fuang Jotiko and Ajahn Suwat Suvaco. He teaches dharma talks and leads retreats, drawing on early Buddh…

Steven brings stories to life in a way that bypasses your thinking mind and lands straight in your heart. When you sit with him, you're not just learning Buddhist concepts — you're stepping into a tim…

Working with Michael, you'll discover that fear doesn't have to stay locked away. Most of us keep our fear at arm's length—it's safer that way. But that distance creates a kind of subtle numbness. Mic…

John Martin teaches in the Theravada tradition at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He leads the Satipatthana Intensive Practice program and serves on the teaching team for the two-year Dedicated Practit…

Gavin Harrison studied at the University of Witwatersrand and trained as a CPA before focusing on Buddhist practice. He studied with various teachers and was active in the Insight Meditation Society i…

Jason Murphy teaches in the Insight meditation tradition. He was authorized to teach by the Spirit Rock Meditation Center teachers council. His training includes work with Noah Levine, author of Dharm…

Heather Martin teaches vipassana meditation and has led retreats in Canada and the United States since 2001. She is based on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. Before becoming a meditation teacher,…

Anam Thubten is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher who arrived in the United States in the early 1990s. He teaches in English and is based at Dharmata Foundation in Point Richmond, California, which he founde…

La Sarmiento has been the guiding teacher of the IMCW Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer Sangha and the IMCW People of Color Sangha since 2005. They co-led the DC Monthly Teen San…

Alan brings a rare blend of dharma practice and real-world engagement. When you work with him, you'll feel permission to be fully human—not to bypass the messy parts of life in the name of spiritualit…

Victor von der Heyde teaches meditation with a focus on examining conceptual frameworks around self, world, and practice itself. His teaching interests include responses to climate breakdown and relat…

Ajahn Pasanno is a Theravada Buddhist monk and abbot of Abhayagiri Monastery in California. He moved to the United States on New Year's Eve 1997 to share the abbotship with Ajahn Amaro. When Ajahn Ama…

Hugh Byrne is a meditation teacher based in Washington, DC, affiliated with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW), where he has served on the Board of Directors and Teachers Council si…

Patrick Kearney is a full-time mindfulness meditation teacher with over 20 years of experience. He has studied early Buddhism at the postgraduate level and focuses on the original teachings of the Bud…

Jill Satterfield founded and directed the School for Compassionate Action, a training and service organization based in New York City. The organization operated for over ten years, offering mindfulnes…

Stephen Snyder is a meditation teacher who offers instruction through in-person and online retreats as well as individual coaching. He teaches within a contemplative tradition focused on awakening and…

Ajahn Sundara is a senior nun in the Theravada forest tradition. She trained in Thai forest monasteries from 1995 to 1998 and has held positions at monastic communities in Devon, California, and Amara…

Joseph Bobrow is a Zen master and retired psychoanalyst. He founded Deep Streams Zen Institute in Santa Barbara. Bobrow has written two books: Zen and Psychotherapy: Partners in Liberation and Waking …

Shinmu brings a grounded, embodied approach to practice—one that honors both precision and gentleness. You'll feel met where you are, whether you're just starting out or deepening years of work. Their…

Tsultrim Allione was born in New England and ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in Bodhgaya, India in 1970, becoming the first American so ordained. She later disrobed and married. In 2007, she was re…

Dhammaruwan is a Buddhist monk in the Theravada tradition who took permanent ordination on April 10, 2016, at the Bhavana Society's Forest Monastery in West Virginia. He was previously a layman studen…

Bruni brings a grounded, bilingual presence to insight practice—someone who's walked the immigrant's path and knows what it means to find solid ground in meditation. With nearly 30 years of practice i…

Ajahn Candasiri is a Buddhist monastic teacher in the Theravada tradition. She is based at Milntuim Hermitage in Scotland, which she established. Within monastic communities, she has been involved in …

Ajahn Liem Thitadhammo is a Thai Forest Tradition teacher in the lineage of Ajahn Chah. He trained directly under Ajahn Chah at Wat Nong Pah Pong and became abbot of the monastery in 1982 when Ajahn C…

Abeba Birhane is a Senior Fellow at the Mozilla Foundation. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the complexity of human systems and the limitations of machine learning in predicting human behavi…

Adam Frank is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester specializing in theoretical astrophysics. His research focuses on stellar evolution, particularly the final stages of …

Ajaan Thanissaro is an American Theravada monk ordained in 1976 under Ajaan Fuang Jotiko in Thailand. He holds a degree in European Intellectual History from Oberlin College. In 1991, he helped establ…

Ajahn Chandako was ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1990 in the Thai Forest Tradition under the lineage of Ajahn Chah. Originally from Minneapolis, he practiced intensive meditation in monasteries throu…

Ajahn Kovilo is a Theravada monk ordained in 2010 at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in California. Born in Ohio, he was introduced to meditation through the Goenka vipassana tradition before entering m…

Ajahn Nisabho is a Buddhist monk ordained in 2013 under Ajahn Anan, a senior student of Ajahn Chah. He trained in forest monasteries across Thailand, Australia, and the United States, studying with te…

Al Kaszniak is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona with a Ph.D. in clinical and developmental psychology. He directed the Neuropsychology, Emotion, and Meditation Laborato…

Hozan Alan Senauke is vice-abbot of Berkeley Zen Center, where he resides with his family. He founded the Clear View Project, which develops Buddhist-based resources for relief and social change effor…

Alcio Eido Soho Braz is a psychiatrist and MD with a master's degree in Social Anthropology. He began Zen practice in Japan in 1992 under Bunkei Yamamoto Roshi, trained at the New York Zendo with Eido…

Aleix Ruiz-Falqués holds a PhD in Indian Studies from the University of Cambridge. He serves as Head of the Department of Pali and Languages at the Shan State Buddhist University in Taunggyi, Myanmar,…

Aleksey Belousov teaches Wushu and health practices including Tai Chi and Qigong. He began meditating in childhood through Wushu training and pursued formal meditation study after meeting Mingyur Rinp…

Alice Cabotaje is Director of Spiritual Care at Stanford Health Care. She is a Certified Educator through the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) and a Board Certified Chaplain through …

Alonso Méndez is a Tzeltal Maya cultural astronomer based in Taos, New Mexico. Born in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, he spent over twenty years researching Pre-Columbian astronomical knowledge.…

Amy Roth is a long-time meditator and practice leader at the Tergar Meditation Community in Chicago, where she has taught for over 10 years. She is a psychotherapist and mother based in Chicago. Roth …

Ana Santoyo is a translator and interpreter of Buddhist teachings affiliated with Tergar International. She initially worked as a lawyer before traveling to Bodhgaya, India, where she began studying B…

Andreas Roepstorff is a professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, with positions in the Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience and the Department of Social Anthropology. He is an anthropolog…

Andrey Kostyrko is a student of Mingyur Rinpoche in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Based in Russia, he has practiced since 2016 after reading The Joy of Living and attending a workshop with Rinpoche.…

Angie Boissevain is a lay priest disciple in the Soto Zen tradition, trained by Kobun Chino Otogawa and completing transmission with Vanja Palmers. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has taught …

Annanda Barclay is an Associate Pastor at Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church. She completed advanced spiritual care research fellowships at Auburn Seminary and Stanford University, focusing on moral injury…

Anthony Back is Director of Palliative Care at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and Professor of Medicine/Oncology at the University of Washington. He is also head of a gastrointestinal oncology pract…

Antonia Sumbundu is an instructor with the Tergar Meditation Community and a clinical psychologist. She has practiced meditation for over 35 years, beginning formally in 1988 after attending a talk by…

Anya Adair is a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner trained in the Kagyu lineage. She grew up at Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland and became a student of Mingyur Rinpoche in 2003, studying Mahamudra. …

Ari Crellin-Quick has practiced within the Theravada tradition since 2004. His primary orientation is based on the teachings of Sayadaw U Tejaniya, which center on direct observation of experience for…

Ari Goldfield is a Buddhist teacher in the Tibetan tradition who trained under Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche for eleven years (1998-2006), serving as oral translator and secretary during seven inte…

Ash Sangoram is a neonatologist who practices in the Insight Meditation tradition. He is a former fellow of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and a student in the Mindfulness Training Ins…

Ayya Dhammadipa (also known as Reverend Konin Cardenas) began Buddhist practice in 1987 with Zen meditation. She practiced as a lay practitioner until 2007, when she was ordained as a monk by Sekkei H…

Beata Tsosie-Peña is from Kha'p'o Owingeh (Santa Clara Pueblo) and El Rito, New Mexico. She holds certifications as an educator, full-spectrum birthworker, and in indigenous sustainable design. She le…

Ben Connelly is a Soto Zen teacher and Dharma heir in the Katagiri lineage. He is based at Minnesota Zen Meditation Center and teaches across the United States. Connelly teaches mindfulness in secular…

Berget Jelane has practiced in the Insight Meditation tradition since 1986. She is a graduate of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center Community Dharma Leaders Program and the Sati Center Chaplaincy Train…

Beth Kanji Goldring began Zen practice in 1995 and was ordained that same year. She studies vipassana with Gil Fronsdal, tonglen with Alan Wallace, and has trained in Reiki. A former university humani…

Beth Howard is a yoga teacher, writer, and community activist based in Wyoming. She has practiced in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh since 2002 and was ordained as a lay member of the Or…

When you meditate with Beth, you're working with someone who's lived both sides of practice—years in monastic life, then the messy, real work of bringing it back into everyday Western existence. She g…

Bhante Pasanna was born in Vienna in 1975 and ordained in Sri Lanka in 1997 by Venerable Katukurunde Nyanananda Thero. He practiced in Sri Lankan monasteries and forest hermitages for 17 years. From 2…

Venerable Walpola Piyananda is a Theravada monk who has been ordained since age 12 in Sri Lanka. He founded Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara in Los Angeles in 1976 and serves as abbot. He holds M.A. degr…

Bhante Sanathavihari (Ricardo Ortega) is a Theravada Buddhist monk ordained in the Amarapura Nikaya lineage. He received novice ordination at age 30, following nine years in the US Army and three depl…

Bhikkhu Sambodhi was ordained as a bhikkhu in 2000 at Pa Auk forest monastery in Burma, where he trained in samatha meditation for two years. He spent twelve years in Sri Lanka, primarily with the Gal…

Bhikkhu Sanathavihari is a Theravāda monk ordained in the Sri Lankan tradition. He is based at Sarathchandra Buddhist Center in North Hollywood, California, where he studied under the late Bhante Mada…

Bill Hart practices and teaches in the Theravadan tradition. He has been meditating since 1995 and leading a sitting group since 1998. Hart works as a hospice and hospital chaplain in the Bay Area, se…

Bill Kostura has practiced meditation since 2001, studying primarily with Gil Fronsdal at Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City. He teaches Buddhist meditation at multiple locations, including a s…

Billy Collins is an American poet and writer affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. He has published twelve collections of poetry including Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Sailing Alone Ar…

Zenkei Blanche Hartman (1926–2016) was a Soto Zen teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. She was ordained as a priest in 1977 by Zentatsu Baker and received dharma transmission from Sojun Mel Weits…

Breeshia Wade is a grief educator and author of Grieving While Black: An Anti-racist Take on Oppression and Sorrow. She completed lay ordained Zen Buddhist end-of-life caregiver training through Upaya…

Brenda Phillips is a lecturer in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Boston University and director of the BU Lab for Contemplative Studies. She holds a PhD in developmental psychology…

Brian Johnson has practiced meditation since 1996, beginning with Rinzai Zen for ten years before transitioning to Vipassana in 2009. He studies under Gil Fronsdal and Ines Freedman at the Insight Med…

Bridget Belgrave has taught Nonviolent Communication (NVC) since 1996 and is a certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. She was involved in introducing NVC in the UK and India. …

Brooke Kaishin Barss (Hoshi) is a Buddhist chaplain and teacher affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. She graduated from Upaya's Chaplaincy Program in 2018 and was ordained as a Buddhist Chaplain by Roshi…

Bruce Hyman is a Buddhist meditation teacher and chaplain affiliated with Insight Meditation Center and Insight Retreat Center. He first encountered Buddhism in 1970 while serving as a doctor during t…

Carla Brennan teaches Insight Meditation in the Santa Cruz area through Bloom of the Present Insight Meditation, which she founded in 2009. She is a visiting teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center i…

Carolyn Dille is a poet and teacher who facilitates writing and creative expression workshops. She has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1990, training in both Theravada and Soto Zen traditions. She…

Carrie Tamburo, Ph.D., is a meditation teacher based in San Diego, California. She encountered Buddhist practice in Los Angeles in 1982 while completing her doctorate in Hispanic linguistics at UCLA. …

Chenxing Han is an author and speaker in the Insight Meditation tradition. She holds an MA in Buddhist Studies from the Graduate Theological Union and a certificate in Buddhist chaplaincy from the Ins…

Cheryl Hylton is a student of Gil Fronsdal in the Insight Meditation tradition, practicing since 1997. She teaches the Basic Meditation Instruction class at Insight Meditation Center in the San Franci…

Chris Clifford has practiced in the Insight Meditation tradition since 1995, primarily at Insight Meditation Center. She completed IMC's Dharma Mentoring program and Local Dharma Leadership program. C…

Chris Goto-Jones is a Buddhist chaplain and philosopher based on Vancouver Island, Canada. He practices in the Zen tradition and received his dharma name Shunmyō in 2022 from Rōshi Joan Jiko Halifax. …

Christopher Ives is a professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College. He focuses on modern Zen ethics, Buddhist approaches to nature and environmental issues, and the history of Zen Buddhism. His…

Chris Senko Perez is a Zen priest at Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he has lived as a resident since entering the program. He received Jukai from Roshi Joan Halifax, was ordained as a…

Christiana Figueres is a Costa Rican diplomat and climate policy expert. She served as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016, leading negot…

Claralynn Nunamaker has practiced Buddhism since 1999 and studied Pāli since 2014. She trained under Leigh Brasington beginning in 2015 and identifies as a student of early Buddhist teachings. Nunamak…

Clark Strand is a writer and meditation teacher affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. He worked as senior editor at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and has studied world spiritual traditions for over forty …

Clayton Dalton is an emergency physician based in western New Mexico with a medical degree from Columbia University and residency training from Harvard. He is also a journalist whose work has appeared…

Cortland Dahl is a meditation teacher, scientist, and translator trained in Tibetan Buddhism. He holds a Ph.D. in Mind, Brain and Contemplative Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a m…

Craig Manbauman is a Family Nurse Practitioner and United States Air Force veteran. He serves as faculty at the Yale School of Nursing and as Lead APRN Clinician for the FINGER program at LiveWell. Ma…

Cynda Hylton Rushton is the Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics and Professor of Nursing and Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University. She is a nurse, clinician, educator, and researcher focused on cli…

Cyndi Lee began teaching yoga in 1978 and was among the first Western female teachers to combine yoga with Tibetan Buddhism. She started teaching meditation in 1992 at the direction of her root guru, …

Cynthia Jurs is a dharma teacher in the Order of Interbeing of Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh, having received ordination as a Dharmacharya in 1994. In 2018, she was made an honorary lama in the Vajrayana…

Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. His research examines the biological and cultural origins of compassion, awe, love, …

Daigan Gaither began Buddhist practice in 1995 in the Vipassana tradition and started Zen training in 2003 with Ryushin Paul Haller Roshi. He received lay ordination in 2006 and priest ordination in 2…

Dan Landry is a teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition. He has practiced since 1999 and teaches at Insight Santa Cruz, where he is an active member of the sangha. He is affiliated with Insight Me…

Dana DePalma teaches in the Insight Meditation tradition. She holds a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies. DePalma serves as Founding Guiding Teacher …

Daniel Bowling is a meditation teacher and mediator based in Sausalito, California. He has practiced yoga and meditation since 1976 and completed Spirit Rock's Community Dharma Leaders Training. Bowli…

David Addiss is a physician and epidemiologist who worked for 20 years at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, focusing on neglected tropical diseases. He directed the Fetzer Institute's…

David Chernikoff began meditating in 1971 and started teaching insight meditation in 1988. He trained in yoga at the Integral Yoga Institute and completed the Community Dharma Leader program at Spirit…

David Cohn trained in Zen at the San Francisco Zen Center's monasteries and practice centers from 1970 to 1984 and was ordained as a priest in 1974. He maintained lay practice while operating restaura…

David Lorey began meditating as a teenager in the 1970s and undertook intensive training in transcendental meditation in college. In the early 2000s, he shifted to Buddhist practice within the Therava…

Deborah Madison is an American chef and food writer affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. She is known primarily for her work on vegetarian cooking and gourmet cuisine using fresh garden produce. Her writ…

Dekila Chungyalpa is Director of the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, an environment and climate education platform for faith leaders. She previously directed the World Wildlife…

Diana Clark teaches meditation at the Insight Meditation Center in the San Francisco Bay Area. She trained with Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella and has completed extended silent retreats at Spirit Rock,…

Dinara Toktosunova is a meditation teacher affiliated with Tergar. She has practiced meditation since 2010 while managing family and professional responsibilities. She teaches that awareness, compassi…

Dorotea Mendoza is a writer and Zen practitioner based in Brooklyn. She practices with Upaya Zen Center and has assisted in sit, walk, write retreats with Natalie Goldberg. She has facilitated online …

Elena Antonova is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Brunel University London and Visiting Researcher at King's College London. She studies the neurobiological effects of long-term mindfulness pr…

Gabor Maté is a retired physician with 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience. He worked for over a decade in Vancouver's Downtown East Side treating patients with addiction and me…

Edoardo Shoryu Eusepi is a Zen priest ordained in 2021 by Joan Halifax at Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he joined the resident body in 2018. He practices within the Zen tradition and…

Edward Espe Brown is a Zen priest and author of The Tassajara Bread Book and Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings. He teaches meditation and cooking, and practices Vipassana, yoga, cranio-sacral work…

Edwin Kelley began practicing Buddhism in 1975 and ordained temporarily as a Theravada monk during a six-month retreat in Burma in 1992 with Chanmyay Sayadaw. He encountered Vajrayana Buddhism in Dhar…

Eileen Messina practices within the Insight Meditation tradition and is affiliated with the Insight Meditation Center and Insight Retreat Center. She is currently in training to become a Buddhist Chap…

Elena Brower has taught yoga and meditation since 1999. She received Jukai (lay ordination) from Roshi Joan Halifax at Upaya Zen Center in 2023 and is currently a candidate in Upaya's Chaplaincy Train…

Emily Linderman is a Board-Certified Chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains and a certified meditation teacher in the Shamatha-Vipashyana tradition through the Open Heart Project, a T…

Enkyo O'Hara is a Soto Zen priest and the Abbot of The Village Zendo in Manhattan. She is a Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order. O'Hara teaches traditional Zen meditation and koan practice al…

Evan Thompson is a philosophy professor at the University of British Columbia who works on consciousness, the self, and the mind. His research integrates cognitive science, phenomenology, and Buddhist…

Eve Myonen Marko is a Zen teacher and resident teacher at Green River Zen Center in Massachusetts. She is a founding teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order and co-founder of Peacemaker Circle Internation…

Ezequiel Di Paolo is a Research Professor at Ikerbasque, the Basque Science Foundation, in San Sebastián, Spain. He holds a DPhD from the University of Sussex and was previously Reader in Evolutionary…

Father Greg Boyle is a Jesuit priest and founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, a gang-intervention and re-entry program. From 1986 to 1992, he served as pastor of Dolores Mission Church in Boy…

Fionnuala Shenpen Daffy has studied Tibetan Buddhism since 1999 under Mingyur Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and other Nyingma and Kagyu teachers. She completed a three-year retreat at Chanteloube, Franc…

Franka Cordua-von Specht began meditation practice in 2004 and became a student of Mingyur Rinpoche in 2007. She attended Rinpoche's teachings in Bodhgaya, India, in 2009. In June 2013, she helped est…

Frédéric Auquier has practiced meditation since 2001 and studied with Mingyur Rinpoche since 2003. He is based in Paris, where he works as a literature teacher and principal at an international high s…

Fu Nancy Schroeder has practiced Zen Buddhism as a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center since 1979. She was ordained as a priest in 1986 and received Dharma Transmission from Tenshin Reb Anderson …

Gay Watson holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She trained as a psychotherapist in Core Process, a Buddhist-inspired psychothe…

Gem Boord has practiced Buddhism since 1994. He studied and practiced intensively at Kagyu Samye Ling monastery for three years and became a student of Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. In 2003, he be…

Genzan Quennell is a Zen teacher in the lineage of Roshi Joan Halifax. He began Zen practice in 1991 in Los Angeles and received Tokudo ordination in 2013 and Dharma Transmission in 2017 from Halifax.…

George Hughes is a meditation teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition who trained under Mingyur Rinpoche. He has worked with Mingyur Rinpoche for many years coordinating the Joy of Living and Path o…

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 trai…

Guo Gu (Dr. Jimmy Yu) is a Chan Buddhist teacher and professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions at Florida State University. He studied under Master Sheng Yen for over 30 years, serving nine years…

Haiwen Meng began studying Zen Buddhism and meditation in 2000. In 2006, he became a student of Mingyur Rinpoche and has practiced within that lineage since. He is affiliated with Tergar. Before retir…

Hanne De Jaegher is a philosopher of cognitive science and Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country. She holds a DPhil from the University of Sussex (2007) and was a Wall Scholar at…

Heather McTeer Toney is a lawyer and former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator for the Southeast under President Barack Obama. She served two terms as Mayor of Greenville, Mis…

Henry Shukman is a poet, author, and meditation teacher affiliated with Insight Meditation Center and Insight Retreat Center. He co-founded The Way, a meditation app. His books include Original Love: …

Hilary Borison is a grief counselor based in the Palo Alto area who teaches within the Insight Meditation Center lineage. She is a graduate of the Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher Training through the …

Holger Yeshe has practiced meditation since 1999 and has been a student of Mingyur Rinpoche since 2005. He ordained as a monk in 2010 and focuses on Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy study. He …

Holly Yang is a physician in hospice and palliative care at Scripps Health in San Diego, California, where she directs community-based palliative care services. She is Co-Director of the UCSD/Scripps …

Ian Boyden is a visual artist, writer, and translator affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. He studied Chinese paleography, poetry, painting, and calligraphy in China, with degrees in art history from Wes…

Hozan Alan Senauke (1947–2024) was Abbot of Berkeley Zen Center. He practiced in the Zen tradition and was active in socially engaged Buddhism, working with the International Network of Engaged Buddhi…

Ines Freedman is a vipassana teacher in the Insight Meditation lineage. She began meditating through yoga in 1970 and took up Buddhist meditation practice in 1985 under Gil Fronsdal. She completed the…

Irina Kuznetcova has practiced meditation since 2011 as a student of Mingyur Rinpoche. She is based in Moscow and serves as a practice leader for the Tergar Moscow community. She coordinates Mingyur R…

Iréne Kaigetsu Bakker is a Zen priest and Dharma successor of Joan Jiko Halifax Roshi, trained in the White Plum Sangha tradition since the mid-1980s. Based in the Netherlands, she founded Zen Spirit …

Isboset Amador began studying Buddhism in 2004 during a visit to India. He became a student of Mingyur Rinpoche in 2006 and has since focused on study and practice within the Tibetan Buddhist traditio…

Jacques Verduin has worked in prisoner rehabilitation and restorative justice since 1997. He is affiliated with Insight Meditation Center and Insight Retreat Center. Verduin developed Guiding Rage Int…

Jaku Kinst is a Soto Zen priest and licensed psychotherapist. She has taught at San Francisco Zen Center, Tassajara, Santa Cruz Zen Center, and Gampo Abbey under Pema Chodron. Kinst teaches graduate c…

James Fushin Bristol is a Zen priest and teacher at Upaya Zen Center. He began zazen practice in 1993 and was ordained by Roshi Joan Halifax in 2018. He received Dharma Transmission in January 2025. B…

James Morrison was ordained as a Buddhist monk in the Thai Forest Tradition and spent 15 years living with meditation masters in Thailand. For the past 12 years he has also practiced at Redwood Hermit…

Jan Chozen Bays is a Zen teacher in the Rinzai tradition. She has practiced Zen Buddhism since 1973 and received priest ordination in 1979 from Taizan Maezumi, Roshi. She lived at Zen Center of Los An…

Jeff Hardin has practiced meditation since 2000 in the Insight Meditation tradition. He teaches at the Sacramento Insight Meditation group and serves as a Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader. Hardin i…

Jennifer Block is a Buddhist chaplain and Insight practitioner based in San Francisco. She works with individuals facing spiritual and emotional issues related to aging, sickness, dying, and grief. Bl…

Jennifer Lemas is an ordained Buddhist minister in the Vipassana tradition. She has practiced since 1997 under the guidance of Gil Fronsdal at Insight Meditation Center. Lemas leads the Buddhism and R…

Jess McNally began meditating in 2009 and spent several years in full-time Buddhist practice. She trained for three years at a Zen monastery and three years as a novice monastic in the Tibetan Buddhis…

Jesse Maceo Vega Frey teaches Vipassana meditation within the Theravadan tradition, studying under Michele McDonald and drawing from the methods of Mahasi Sayadaw. He is the resident teacher for Vipas…

Jill Genki De La Hunt practices in the Zen tradition and is affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. She received precepts from Thich Nhat Hanh in 1991 and lay ordination with Roshi Joan Halifax at Upaya. De…

Jill Hyman has practiced yoga since 1974 and Vipassana meditation since 2000. Her training draws from the Thai Forest tradition, Dzogchen, and teachers at Spirit Rock and the Insight Meditation Societ…

Jim Bronson studied Krishnamurti's teachings beginning in 1968 and began practicing Vipassana meditation in 1990. Based in the Bay Area, he teaches meditation instruction and offers talks through Insi…

Jim Podolske is a scientist and Vipassana practitioner who has studied with Gil Fronsdal at Insight Meditation Center since 1998. He serves as an introductory meditation instructor and volunteer at IM…

Jiryu Rutschman-Byler is a Soto Zen Buddhist priest and teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, with dharma transmission from Sojun Mel Weitsman. He has trained residentially in Zen temples si…

Jisan Tova Green is a Zen priest who received dharma transmission from Eijun Linda Cutts in 2015. She teaches at San Francisco Zen Center's City Center. Green co-founded the SFZC Queer Dharma Group in…

Jisho Sara Siebert is a Soto Zen Buddhist priest and International Zen Teacher (Kokusaifukyoshi) recognized by the Soto Shu. She trained under Gengo Akiba Roshi in Los Angeles and studied at monasteri…

Joah McGee lived and worked in Myanmar from 2003 to 2021, including positions at the US Embassy and a private school. He wrote a guidebook examining Myanmar's meditation traditions and led pilgrimages…

Joanna Macy is an eco-philosopher and scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She taught at Upaya Zen Center and authored numerous books including Despair and Personal Power in …

John Brehm is a poet and meditation teacher based in Portland, Oregon. He has published four books of poetry and a collection of essays on the relationship between poetry and contemplative practice. H…

John Dunne holds the Distinguished Chair in Contemplative Humanities at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and serves as Chair of the Department of Asian Languages and…

John O'Connor teaches at Open Door Sangha in Santa Barbara. He has practiced in the Insight tradition for 20 years and completed the Dedicated Practitioner Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He…

John Paul Lederach is Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He works as a practitioner and consultant in peace processes and conflict transformation across Latin America, Africa, Asia, a…

Jon Kabat-Zinn is a molecular biologist (PhD, MIT) and Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In 1979, he founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBS…

Jonathan S. Watts is a Buddhist scholar and practitioner based in Japan who works in engaged Buddhism. He began his career in 1990 at the International Network of Engaged Buddhists in Bangkok under Su…

Jose Shinzan Palma is an ordained Zen priest in the lineage of Roshi Joan Jiko Halifax. Born in Veracruz, Mexico, he trained at the Toronto Zen Buddhist Temple from 1996 to 2005 under Korean Zen teach…

Jozen Tamori Gibson began formal meditation practice in 2004 with Sotō Zen in Japan and added Theravada practice in 2010. They completed the Insight Meditation Society's Dharma Teacher Training progra…

Jud Brewer is a psychiatrist and associate professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences and Psychiatry at Brown University, where he directs the Mindfulness Center. He has conducted research on mindful…

Judy Cannon is a Catholic nun who has practiced meditation for 9 years and has been part of the Insight Meditation Center sangha for 5 years. She practices within the Insight tradition. Cannon is note…

Judy Long began Buddhist meditation practice in 2000 with Tara Brach in Bethesda, Maryland. She later moved to the San Francisco area, where she practices at the Insight Meditation Center and has atte…

Justin Walker practices and teaches in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, primarily within the Kagyu lineage through Tergar. He began studying under Mingyur Rinpoche in 2003 and assisted with the develop…

Kasumi Kato grew up in northern Japan and learned meditation from an early age. She has completed over a year of solitary meditation retreats along with numerous group retreats. Kato holds two Master'…

Kathy Cheney has practiced meditation since 2001 under Gil Fronsdal in the Insight Meditation tradition. She has completed several intensive retreats, including a personal retreat at Gaia House in Eng…

Kazuaki Tanahashi is a Zen practitioner and teacher affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. Born and trained in Japan, he has been active in the United States since 1977. He teaches East Asian calligraphy a…

Keido Troy Fernandez is a Zen practitioner affiliated with Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he studies under Roshi Joan Halifax. He received Jukai in 2007 and was ordained as a novice p…

Keith Wakefield is Manager for CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) Programs at UCLA Health in Los Angeles. An ACPE Certified Educator, he completed his training at the University of Colorado Hospital. H…

Kell Julliard has practiced meditation in multiple traditions since his early twenties. He studied intensively with Mingyur Rinpoche and the Tergar Meditation Community beginning in 2009. He served as…

Kelly Ekman practices in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She took refuge with Mingyur Rinpoche in 2004 and spent several years in India studying with Tai Situ Rinpoche, one of Mingyur Rinpoche's princ…

Kelly McGonigal is a psychology lecturer at Stanford University and senior teacher at the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. She practices in the American Zen traditio…

Kerry Dunn began meditating in the insight tradition in 2010. She has spent the last decade exploring how different work environments support or hinder centering dharma in daily life. She currently wo…

Kerstin Deibert has practiced in the Insight Meditation tradition for over 20 years. She has worked internationally as a social justice advocate, conflict mediator, peace activist, and trainer in conf…

Kharma Drolkar Lhamo is a teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition who has followed Mingyur Rinpoche's teachings since 2006. She has worked at Tergar Mingjue Meditation Center in Phoenix, Arizona as …

Kim Moore is a Buddhist chaplain and ordination candidate in the Theravada tradition. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has spent over 20 years in social justice and community organizing roles,…

Kirsten DeLeo is a meditation teacher and end-of-life caregiver trained in the Insight meditation tradition. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and has worked at Zen Hospice and Maitri. She is…

Konjin Gaelyn Godwin is the Abbot of Houston Zen Center. She received ordination as a Zen priest in 1991 from Tenshin Reb Anderson at San Francisco Zen Center and received Dharma Transmission from And…

Korin Charlie Pokorny is a Zen priest ordained by Reb Anderson in 1999 and received dharma transmission in 2018. He practiced as a resident at Tassajara and Green Gulch Farm for 12 years beginning in …

Koshin Flint Sparks is a Zen priest and guiding teacher in the Soto Zen lineage. He holds a PhD in psychology and worked as a psychologist and psychotherapist specializing in behavioral medicine befor…

Kristin Andrews is a philosopher and York Research Chair in Animal Minds at York University in Toronto. She holds a CIFAR Fellowship on the Future Flourishing project. Her work examines cognition, con…

Kristina Isberg began studying Buddhism at San Francisco Zen Center in the late 1990s and took up Vipassana meditation in 2002. She established a daily practice in 2004 while completing yoga teacher t…

Kritee Kanko is a Zen priest in the Rinzai lineage of Cold Mountain and a climate scientist with training in microbiology and isotope biogeochemistry. Based in Boulder, Colorado, she serves as a Sense…

Kwame Alexander is a poet, author, and educator. He has written 35 books, including the Newbery Medal-winning novel The Crossover and picture book The Undefeated. His work has received the Coretta Sco…

Lama Sonam Rinchen is a physician and medical administrator based in Nepal. He received his MD from Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences in 2011 and is the first Western-trained doctor from…

Larry Ward is a senior teacher in the Plum Village tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies with emphasis on Buddhism and the neuroscience of meditation. Ward is th…

Laura Candiotto is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pardubice in the Czech Republic. She practices Tibetan Buddhism and focuses on the transformation of negative emotions thro…

Laurel Long is a student of Mingyur Rinpoche in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She has been instrumental in developing Tergar Communities, establishing Tergar San Francisco Bay Area and Tergar Medfor…

Lauren Silver has practiced Vipassana meditation since 2004 under Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella at the Insight Meditation Center. She completed the Sati Center's Chaplaincy program and Insight Meditat…

Laurie Anderson is a multimedia artist, performer, and musician known for integrating technology and new media into performance art and installation work. She gained commercial recognition in the 1980…

Leigh Miller is a Professor and Director of the Master of Divinity program at Maitripa College in Portland, Oregon. She holds a PhD and has experience in healthcare and hospice chaplaincy. Miller is a…

Lilu Chen has practiced Vipassana meditation since 2011. She holds a PhD in Religious Studies and is completing a book on Islam in China. Chen graduated from the Sati Center Buddhist Chaplaincy traini…

Lily Huang began intensive Dharma practice in 2019. She has studied in early Buddhist traditions at Spirit Rock, Insight Meditation Society, Insight Meditation Center (IMC) Redwood City, and the Barre…

Liên Shutt is a priest trained in Insight and Soto Zen traditions. Their training took place in the United States, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Shutt is the Guiding Teacher of Access to Zen, an inclu…

Lois Ellen Frank is a chef, author, and culinary anthropologist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has documented Native American food traditions and lifeways for over 30 years, primarily in Southwest…

Lori Wong is an Insight/Vipassana meditation teacher based in California's Central Valley. She has practiced since 2003 under Gil Fronsdal at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City. Wong is a c…

Lorraine A. Padden is a vipassana practitioner and student in the Zen Peacemakers Order, a two-year program based on Bernie Glassman's teachings. She participated in Upaya Zen Center's Socially Engage…

Luc Steels is Professor Emeritus in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Brussels and senior strategy advisor at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He has held research positions at MIT, S…

Lucas Henriksson studied Buddhist philosophy and Tibetan language at a university in Kathmandu from 2008 to 2011, following an initial meeting with Mingyur Rinpoche in India. He completed solitary ret…

Lydia Ridgway was born and raised in Taiwan. She began insight meditation practice in 2000 under teacher Gil Fronsdal. A long-term member and volunteer at the Insight Meditation Center (IMC), she has …

MH Rubin is a photographer and educator based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has worked in creative technology at Lucasfilm, Netflix, and Adobe, and authored books on filmmaking including "Droidmaker," a…

Mai-Linh Leminhbach trained in Buddhist teachings and meditation within her family's Buddhist tradition from an early age. She studied with various Tibetan teachers before becoming a student of Mingyu…

Marco Iturbe is a lawyer based in Puebla, Mexico, and an active member of Tergar Puebla. He encountered the Buddhist tradition through reading and met Mingyur Rinpoche in 2010, after which he became i…

Maria Straatmann is a retired scientist and businesswoman who has studied Vipassana meditation with Gil Fronsdal at Insight Meditation Center since 1996. She serves as the IMC Audiodharma Online Cours…

Mark Donatelli is an attorney in Santa Fe, New Mexico, specializing in prisoners' rights and death penalty defense. He has practiced for over 40 years, including work as a public defender and director…

Mark Moore is an educator, artist, and writer based in the Himalayan, Alpine, and Rocky Mountain regions. He has studied meditation and philosophy in India since 1995, beginning with the Dalai Lama an…

Mary Mocine is the Abbess at Clear Water Zendo in Vallejo, California. She trained at the San Francisco Zen Center, including residencies at Tassajara, Green Gulch, and City Center. She was ordained b…

Mary Taylor began studying yoga in 1971 while pursuing a degree in psychology. In the early 1980s, she moved to Boulder and studied with Richard Freeman at Yoga Workshop, where yoga became central to …

Masha Primachenko practices in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition under the guidance of Mingyur Rinpoche. She is a senior facilitator and leader of the Tergar Russia community. Primachenko also serves as …

Max Hokai Swanger is a Zen Buddhist priest and chaplain based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He converted to Buddhism in college and lived in Buddhist communities for fifteen years before ordaining. H…

Maya Sepulchre is a meditation teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, a student of Mingyur Rinpoche since 2007. She developed an interest in meditation and Buddhism while working for an NGO in Nep…

Meg Gawler began Zen practice in 1968 with Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, completing over three years of monastic training. She later trained in the Theravāda tradition with Gil Fronsdal, Jack Kornfield, Josep…

Mel Weitsman (1929–2021) was a Zen teacher and abbot of Berkeley Zen Center. He was ordained by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1969 as a resident priest at Berkeley Zendo and became abbot in 1985. He taught …

Melissa K. Nelson is a professor of Indigenous Sustainability at Arizona State University's School of Sustainability, and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians (Anishinaab…

Michael Fuchs began meditation practice in 2003 and has studied with Mingyur Rinpoche since 2011. He is a graduate of the Tergar Meditation Teacher Program and teaches Joy of Living Level 1 and Anytim…

Shoho Michael Newhall is a Zen teacher in the lineage of Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi, with whom he began practice in the early 1970s. He received ordination in the mid-1980s from Chino Roshi and from Ki…

Miles Bukiet is a licensed social worker and meditation teacher trained in Zen and contemplative practice. He studied under B. Alan Wallace, including two years in solitary retreat at Prajna Mountain …

Mingzhou Guo was born in Tianjin, China, and moved to the United States as an international student at age 15. He studied traditional East Asian calligraphy with Kazuaki Tanahashi and teaches introduc…

Mirka Knaster has practiced in the Theravada tradition since 1981, beginning with a retreat in India. She is an independent scholar, writer, and editor. Knaster authored Living This Life Fully: Storie…

Misha Merrill is a Zen teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki through Les Kaye, from whom she received Dharma Transmission in 1998. She has been the guiding teacher of Zen Heart Sangha on the Penins…

Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian student at Columbia University. He grew up in the West Bank before relocating to the United States. His interests center on questions of displacement, justice, and huma…

Molly J. Crockett is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. Her research examines moral cognition—how people make decisions about helping, harming, punishment, forgiveness, trus…

Monika L. Son is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the SEEK Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She holds training in psychology and works as a facilitator and teacher. With twenty y…

Muna Shaheen is a Palestinian mindfulness practitioner and veterinary doctor based in Haifa. She co-founded Ihna-Hon, an Arabic-speaking meditation space, and founded Marsa, an Arabic-speaking Sangha …

Mushim (Patricia) Ikeda is a core teacher at East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, California. She teaches within the Insight meditation tradition. Ikeda is known for leading residential retreats for…

Nancy Sōkei Hamilton teaches tea practice (chanoyu) and is an independent scholar of tea's aesthetic, poetic, and material dimensions. She holds an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University an…

Natalie Goldberg is a writer and Zen practitioner affiliated with Upaya Zen Center in northern New Mexico. She has practiced Zen for fifty years. Goldberg is the author of sixteen books, including Wri…

Nathan Jishin Michon is a postdoctoral research fellow at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan, focusing on Buddhist chaplaincy and the development of chaplaincy training programs. They trained in Zen a…

Nicola Redfern teaches Zen and Vipassana meditation and has been trained in Insight Dialogue by founding teacher Gregory Kramer. She is affiliated with Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Redfer…

Noah Kodo Roen is a Zen teacher and Director of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He began formal practice in 2009 and spent approximately four years in solitary retreat at Prajna Mountain For…

Nona Olivia has practiced meditation for 40 years within the Insight Meditation tradition of Theravada Buddhism. She completed Spirit Rock Meditation Center's first Dedicated Practitioner Program and …

Norma Ryūkō Kawelokū Wong is a Native Hawaiian Zen teacher and abbot of Anko-in, an independent branch temple affiliated with Daihonzan Chozen-ji. She trained for over 40 years under Tanouye Tenshin R…

Zoketsu Norman Fischer is a Zen priest and poet who teaches at the San Francisco Zen Center, the oldest large Buddhist organization established in the West. He served as Co-abbot there from 1995 to 20…

Norman Pieniak has practiced meditation and Buddhism with Tergar since 2012, initially joining the Berlin practice group. He met Mingyur Rinpoche in 2016 following Rinpoche's return from wandering ret…

Tsering Wangmo is a clinical nurse and public health professional based at Upaya Zen Center. She grew up in Dho Tarap, Dolpo, Nepal, at 13,500 feet elevation. She holds a Bachelor in Nursing Science f…

Pamela Ayo Yetunde is a Zen student and Community Dharma Leader affiliated with Insight Meditation Center and Insight Retreat Center. She works as a chaplain and pastoral counselor, and teaches pastor…

Paul Haller was ordained as a Theravada monk in Thailand before becoming a priest at San Francisco Zen Center in 1980. He served as abbot from 2003 to 2012. Haller has taught dharma for over 35 years,…

Paula Arai holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University and is the Eshinni & Kakushinni Chair of Women and Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley. She is affili…

Pauline Boss is an educator and researcher known for developing the theory of ambiguous loss. Her work spans family science, sociology, family therapy, and psychology. Boss has spent over thirty years…

Peter Fenczik began practicing meditation at San Francisco Zen Center in 1996 before transitioning to Vipassana in 2002. He established a daily practice in 2004 and has attended two long retreats annu…

Peter Levitt is a Zen teacher in the Suzuki-roshi lineage and a Preceptor within the White Plum Asanga. He founded and guides the Salt Spring Zen Circle on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia. Levi…

Rabbi Joanna Katz is a Board-Certified Chaplain and ACPE Educator based in New York State's Hudson River Valley. She has worked as a hospital, psychiatric, college, and correctional chaplain, includin…

Rachel Naomi Remen is a physician and medical educator affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. She is a professor of family medicine at Wright State Boonshoft School of Medicine and clinical professor at UC…

Ram Appalaraju is a Dharma Leader at San Jose Insight Meditation who trained under Gil Fronsdal. Since 2021, he has worked as a jail and eco-chaplain, providing spiritual care and leading meditation c…

Rebecca Dixon has practiced meditation since 1993 within the Insight Meditation tradition. She is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leader program and an original member of the Chaplaincy Council at …

Rebekkah LaDyne is the Family Program Teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. She began practicing meditation and yoga in her late teens and has studied Vipassana meditation in the U.S…

Reigetsu Susan Moon is a lay teacher in the Soto Zen tradition with 35 years of practice experience, affiliated with Everyday Zen Sangha and Upaya Zen Center. Based in Berkeley, California, she is kno…

Renshin Bunce is a Zen Buddhist priest ordained in the tradition of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi. She lived at San Francisco Zen Center for seven years before leaving a career in real estate. Bunce is a gradu…

Rev. Corinna Chung is a Buddhist chaplain based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She became a Buddhist in 1979 and studied under Tibetan Buddhist masters in Asia, Europe, and the United States. She completed …

Rev. Daphna McKnight is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Buddhist Chaplaincy at University of the West. She is an ordained Buddhist minister trained in Zen and Tibetan Buddhist traditions, …

Rev. Issho Fujita was born in Ehime prefecture, Japan, in 1954 and studied developmental and clinical psychology at the University of Tokyo. After attending a week-long Zen sesshin at Enkaku-ji monast…

Rev. Jessica Monshin McKimmie is a Buddhist chaplain, death doula, grief counselor, and meditation teacher ordained in the White Plum Asanga lineage at Upaya Zen Center in 2022. They work across educa…

Zenshin Florence Caplow is a Soto Zen priest in the Suzuki Roshi and Everyday Zen lineage with forty years of practice in Vipassana and Zen. She is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and fiel…

Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Roshi is a Zen priest and Dharma teacher ordained in the Zen Peacemaker Order. She received transmission from Roshi Francisco Lugovina in the Soto Zen lineage and was the se…

Rhonda V. Magee is a Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco. She has spent more than twenty years exploring connections between anti-racist education, social justice, and contemplative pr…

Richard Schwartz is a family therapist and academic who developed Internal Family Systems (IFS), a therapeutic approach grounded in systems thinking. IFS emerged from his work with therapy clients who…

Richard Davidson is a neuroscientist and psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he founded and directs the Center for Healthy Minds. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard and…

Richard Sievers was introduced to Vipassana meditation in 1984 at a 10-day retreat led by Sister Ayya Khema. He has practiced with teachers including Steve Armstrong, Kamala Master, Jack Kornfield, an…

Rick Maddock is a professor of psychiatry at UC Davis School of Medicine who teaches dharma in the Sacramento area and Sierra foothills. He practices and teaches early Indian Buddhism, with training f…

Rita Gross (Acharya Rita) has studied and taught Vajrayana Buddhism for forty years. She holds a position as Buddhist Dharma teacher appointed by Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche. Gross is a professor of compa…

Ro Grace is a Black trans yoga educator and artist based in Brooklyn, NY, with over 12 years of experience in group facilitation. They hold E-RYT 500 certification and lead 200 and 300 hour teacher tr…

Robert Cusick is a Stanford Lecturer and co-founder of the Applied Compassion Training program at Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research & Education. He teaches compassion t…

Robert Thurman is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and co-founder and president of Tibet House US/Menla. He has studied Tibetan Buddhism for over 50 years and is known…

Roberto Serrano is based in Puebla, Mexico, where he has worked with Tergar Mexico since 2014. A sociologist by profession, he coordinates translation teams for the organization and facilitates medita…

Robin Harris practices in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition under the guidance of Mingyur Rinpoche, whom he first met in India in 2001 and began studying with in 2007. He grew up in a Tibetan Buddhist co…

Ronna Kabatznick is a social psychologist and assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at UCSF. She has practiced meditation since 1985 and completed nearly two years of Vipassana retreat study unde…

Rose Taylor Goldfield is a Buddhist teacher and certified life coach trained in the Tibetan tradition. She studied under Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, who appointed her to teach philosophy, medita…

Roshi Joan Halifax is a Zen teacher and founder of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She holds a PhD and worked as an anthropologist at Columbia University and the University of Miami School o…

Roxanne Swentzell is a sculptor and artist affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. She is from a family of Pueblo potters and sculptors and attended the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and th…

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. She has published four novels that integrate themes of science, technology, religion, environmental polit…

Ryotan Cynthia Kear is a Dharma Transmitted Soto Zen priest in the Suzuki Roshi lineage. She serves as Guiding Teacher for Great Spirit Sangha and Women of the Way Sangha in San Francisco, and as seni…

Sally Clough was introduced to vipassana through retreats in India in 1981. She trained under Jack Kornfield and co-founded the Sharpham meditation community in Devon, England. Clough served as Execut…

Sandra Sanabria is a certified Compassion Cultivation Teacher and Dharma Mentor in the Insight Meditation tradition. She completed training programs in English and Spanish and is pursuing further Dhar…

Santikaro is a Theravada bhikkhu ordained in 1985 who lived with Ajahn Buddhadasa for nine years and served as his primary translator. He spent most of his monastic life at Suan Mokkh in Thailand, whe…

Sarah Shaw is a faculty member and lecturer at the University of Oxford specializing in Buddhist history and practice. She has published works on early Buddhist teachings, mindfulness, the Jatakas (bi…

Scott Anderson has practiced yoga and meditation since his teenage years. He studied under Mingyur Rinpoche beginning in 2010 and co-founded Tergar Madison as one of its founding leaders. He holds a P…

Sean Kerr is a Ph.D. student in South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley, focusing on Indian Buddhism and Pali commentarial literature. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in Sanskrit from Berkeley. Kerr…

Tom Udall is a U.S. Senator from New Mexico who has been affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. He earned an undergraduate degree from Prescott College and a law degree from Cambridge University in 1975, f…

Shantum Seth is an ordained teacher in the Zen lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh and a social development worker. He is co-founder of Ahimsa, a non-profit organization focused on integrating mindfulness into…

Shelley Gault has practiced meditation since the 1960s and has been training in the Buddhist Insight tradition since 2003. She has completed over three years of cumulative silent retreat. She is a co-…

Shin Kwan Park teaches in the Insight or Vipassana tradition. She began meditation practice during graduate studies in Counseling Psychology while working in mental health. She completed the Community…

Shinzen Young trained in Vajrayana, Zen, and Vipassana traditions in Asia. He holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin. Based in North America, he leads meditation retreats a…

Silvia Fernandez-Campos is a psychologist and Buddhist practitioner affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. She holds a PhD and is a certified yoga teacher and Somatic Experiencing trauma therapist. She was…

Sokaku Kathie Fischer is a Zen priest ordained at San Francisco Zen Center in 1980 and received Dharma Transmission in 2011. She began formal practice in 1971 at Berkeley Zen Center while studying Bud…

Stephanie Kaza is a Soto Zen Buddhist practitioner and Professor Emeritus at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. She is affiliated with Upaya Zen C…

Stephanie Wagner is a meditation teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition who has studied with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Sharon Salzberg, and Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche. She is affiliat…

Myogen Steve Stücky practices in the Zen tradition and has been studying Zen for 35 years. He received Dharma Transmission from Sojun Mel Weitsman in 1993. Stücky became co-Abbot of the San Francisco …

Steven Heine is Professor of Religion and History and Director of Asian Studies at Florida International University. He specializes in East Asian religions, Japanese Buddhism, and Buddhist studies. He…

Susan Ezequelle has practiced Insight Meditation since 1997. She was a past board president of the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California, which she helped found in 2001 with Gil Fronsd…

Susan Shannon is an Interfaith Minister and Buddhist Chaplain who has practiced in Tibetan Buddhism since the early 1970s, beginning with Chinese Buddhism. Based on Orcas Island, she teaches at Sukhas…

Susy Keely has practiced Buddhist meditation since 2001 and began practicing insight meditation in 2006. She trained with Rob Burbea starting in 2015 and was authorized to teach in 2020. Based in Los …

Taigen Dan Leighton is a Soto Zen priest and Dharma successor in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. He began formal zazen practice in 1975 at the New York Zen Center and worked at San Francisco Zen …

Teah Strozer is a lineage holder in the Soto Zen tradition of Suzuki Roshi. She spent 11 years at Tassajara Monastery and served as head of practice at San Francisco Zen Center. Before her Zen practic…

Tempa Dukte Lama is an ordained Tibetan Bon lama and founder of Olmo Ling Bon Center and Olmo Ling Publications. Born in the Humla valley of Nepal to a family of Bon and Nyingma practitioners, he ente…

Tenzin Kiyosaki was ordained as a Buddhist nun by the Dalai Lama in 1985 and lived in a nunnery in Dharamsala, India before returning to monastic life after 27 years. She served as Buddhist Chaplain a…

Terry Tempest Williams is a writer and environmental advocate affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. She has authored over 20 books, including Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, When Women W…

Tim Burkett began Zen practice in 1964 with Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and was ordained as a Zen priest in 1978 by Dainin Katagiri Roshi. He has served as guiding teacher at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Cen…

Tim Olmsted began studying Buddhism in 1977 with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in Boulder, Colorado. In 1981, he moved to Kathmandu to study with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and his sons, where he remained for t…

Tom Harshman is an ordained Christian minister, board-certified chaplain, and ACPE clinical educator. He has worked in spiritual care across hospital, hospice, higher education, and congregational set…

Tony Bernhard is a Buddhist chaplain and teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition. He leads study groups in Davis and has taught dharma groups throughout the Bay Area and Central Valley for over 25…

Trent Thornley is an ordained Dharma Leader in the Nyingma lineage of Anam Thubten and Dharmata Sangha. He holds a M.A. in Buddhist Studies from the Graduate Theological Union and a Certificate in Bud…

Trent Walker is a scholar and teacher of Southeast Asian Buddhism, literature, and music. He holds a BA in Religious Studies from Stanford and a PhD in Buddhist Studies from UC Berkeley, where his doc…

Tsunma Kunsang Palmo is a meditation and dharma teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Originally from England, she worked as an art teacher in international schools before moving to Asia. She stu…

Tuck Butsumon Stibich is an epidemiologist and microbiologist affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. He founded Xenex Healthcare Services, a company developing infection control solutions, and holds multip…

Valerie Brown is an ordained Buddhist Dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. A former lawyer and lobbyist, she teaches mindfulnes…

Vanessa Able is a Soto Zen priest and practice facilitator. She leads the online Introduction to Buddhist Chaplaincy Program at the Sati Center. She completed chaplaincy training at Stanford Healthcar…

Vanessa Sasson is a professor of Religious Studies at Marianopolis College and scholar of early Buddhist narrative. She is author of Yasodhara and the Buddha and The Gathering: A Story of the First Bu…

Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Theravada Buddhist monk ordained in Sri Lanka in 1972 and 1973 under Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School. From 1984…

Venerable Pannavati is ordained in Theravada and Chan traditions and practices Vajrayana Buddhism. She is a former Christian pastor and co-founding abbot of Embracing Simplicity Hermitage. She co-foun…

Victor Medina was a meditation teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition. He studied under Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella at the Insight Meditation Center in the San Francisco Bay Area. Medina served…

Virginie Simard was introduced to Buddhism in 1992 through Bokar Rinpoche and spent six years as a nun in India and Nepal. She has been a student of Mingyur Rinpoche since 2011. In 2014, she founded t…

Walter Whitewater is from the Diné (Navajo) Nation in Pinon, Arizona. He is a chef and culinary advisor, not a meditation teacher. Whitewater began cooking professionally in 1992 in Santa Fe, New Mexi…

Wendy Dainin Lau is an emergency medicine and addiction medicine physician based at Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Originally from Hong Kong, she holds a B.S. in computer science from Yale …

Wendy Johnson is an ordained lay dharma teacher in the Zen traditions of Thich Nhat Hanh and San Francisco Zen Center. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has practiced Zen meditation for thirty-…

Wendy Lo is a meditation practitioner and administrator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She grew up in the United States as a Chinese immigrant and came to meditation practice initially for healt…

Wilbert Rideau is an American author and journalist affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. He spent 44 years incarcerated at Louisiana State Prison, where he served as editor of The Angolite, a prisoner-wr…

William deBuys is a conservationist and writer affiliated with Upaya Zen Center. He has authored ten books, including The Last Unicorn (2015), A Great Aridness (2011), and River of Traps (1991 Pulitze…

Yanli Wang is an Insight meditation practitioner and teacher in the Theravada tradition. She began intensive retreat practice in 2018 and has completed over 10 months of silent retreat at centers incl…

Yasmina Porter has practiced mindfulness meditation since 2002. She completed certification in mindfulness-based prenatal and postpartum yoga at Dominican Hospital. From 2013 onward, she taught mindfu…

Ying Chen is a lay practitioner and first-generation Chinese immigrant who took refuge in 1995 with Venerable Ji Ru, beginning with Chinese Mahayana Buddhism. She has practiced at Insight Meditation C…

Yuria Celidwen is an Indigenous scholar of Nahua and Maya lineages from Chiapas, Mexico. She holds a Ph.D. and serves as a senior fellow at the Othering & Belonging Institute and co-chair of the Indig…

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest and author. She teaches at Upaya Zen Center in New Mexico. Manuel has written multiple books including Opening to Darkness, The Shamanic Bones …