About
Lulu Toselli is a Brazilian-American mindfulness facilitator and artist trained in the Theravāda Buddhist tradition at InsightLA under Trudy Goodman and Maureen Shannon-Chapple. She has practiced meditation since 2002. Toselli holds a BFA from Central St. Martins and has offered sound baths since 2015 as a practice for listening and presence. She works primarily in community settings with young adults, women, artists, and neurodiverse communities. Toselli also creates public art installations integrating mindfulness into shared spaces. She is pursuing graduate studies in psychotherapy to integrate mindfulness and trauma-informed care.
Teaching focus
Lulu Toselli's teaching focus, drawn from the source profile, sits in the Theravada and Insight traditions. Several threads come up: trauma-aware mindfulness that pays attention to the nervous system as part of the practice; direct inquiry into how clinging and aversion arise; and chronic illness and pain as practice ground. On talks, the style is closer to thinking-along than presenting. Lulu Toselli 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, trauma. The bigger move Lulu Toselli 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. Lulu Toselli'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. Lulu Toselli'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
Lulu Toselli teaches in the Theravada and Insight traditions. The teaching home is InsightLA. From the teacher's own profile: Lulu Toselli (she/her) is a Brazilian-American artist, dharma practitioner, and mindfulness facilitator. She has practiced meditation since 2002 and trained as a mindfulness facilitator at InsightLA with Trudy Goodman and Maureen Shannon-Chapple, in the Theravāda Buddhist tradition. With a background in art and design (BFA, Central St. Martins, UK), Lulu’s meditation practice deepened through her experience with chronic anxiety and depression, ultimately leading her to explore mindfulness more fully. Since 2015, she has offered sound baths as a practice for deep listening and presence. Lulu is especially committed to working in community settings, supporting young adults, women, artists and neurodiverse communities by creating spaces for self-inquiry and belonging. In addition to her work as a facilitator, she creates public art installations that bring mindfulness into shared spaces. She is currently pursuing graduate studies in psychotherapy, exploring ways to integrate mindfulness and trauma-informed care to support healing in individuals and communities. In the Insight stream Lulu Toselli 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. Lulu Toselli'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. Lulu Toselli'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. Lulu Toselli'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. Lulu Toselli'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. Lulu Toselli'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. Lulu Toselli'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
Lulu Toselli teaches as a lay teacher in the Theravada and Insight 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 Lulu Toselli, 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.
