Teachers

Anna Douglas is one of the founding teachers of Spirit Rock Meditation Center where she has taught retreats and classes for almost 30 years. Now her focus is on exploring the issues and practice opportunities [...]

Diana Clark is a Buddhist practitioner, scholar, teacher, and general supporter of the dharma. She has cumulatively spent more than a year in silent meditation retreats and when not stealing away to go on retreat, [...]

Farzaneh Azadan began meditation practice in 2006. The discipline and personal benefits of awareness of body and mind, meditation and mindful living encouraged her to share her practice with others. Farzaneh is a graduate of [...]

Daniel Bowling is a staff attorney, mediator, and trainer for the Alternative Dispute Resolution Program, US District Court for Northern California. He practiced law and was Public Defender in Charleston, SC following his graduation from [...]

Renée Burgard is a psychotherapist, consultant, and educator in private practice at Mindfulness & Health in Los Altos. She teaches Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programs for the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Google, Inc., Apple Computer, [...]

CARLA BRENNAN is the guiding Insight Meditation teacher with Bloom of the Present Insight Meditation in Santa Cruz County and has been studying Buddhism for 40 years. She offers weekly meditation groups, classes, retreats and [...]

Chris Clifford has practiced insight meditation since 1995. She appreciates the integration of intensive meditation retreats with daily life Dharma practice and service. Chris is an instructor, mentor and coordinator for Insight Meditation Center’s Eightfold Path Program [...]

Cheryl Branco, a mindfulness meditation instructor, is a Registered Nurse with a Master’s in Transpersonal Psychology.  Cheryl taught mind-body medicine and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction for many years at Kaiser, the YMCA, the Cardiac Therapy Foundation, [...]

Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk, originally from New York City. In late 1972, he traveled to Sri Lanka, where he received monastic ordination. He lived for altogether twenty-four years in Asia, primarily in [...]

Angie Boissevain has practiced Zen in the tradition of Kobun Chino Roshi for more than 30 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, and for a long time, taught in many Sanghas farther afield. Now [...]

Jennifer Dungan began her meditation practice in 2003 with a mindfulness based stress reduction course (MBSR). The discipline of meditation opened a new world of personal discovery and her desire to continue learning propelled her [...]

Carolyn Dille has been a dedicated student of Buddhist practices for over 25 years, practicing in the Early Buddhist Insight and the Soto Zen traditions. She has been teaching since 1998 and has studied with [...]

Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera (known to most as Ajahn Brahm), born Peter Betts in London in 1951, is a Theravada Buddhist monk. Ajahn Brahm grew up in London and earned a degree in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge [...]

Toni Bernhard is the author of How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their Caregivers and How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow (Wisdom, Fall 2013). How to Be Sick was [...]

Tony Bernhard is a Buddhist chaplain and teacher. He maintains an active practice with inmates in Folsom Prison and hosts sitting groups in Davis. He sits on the board of the Sati Center for Buddhist [...]

Sharon Allen is a long time practitioner and teacher of mindfulness meditation and different forms of movement. She taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for many years, and now directs IMSB's Thursday Evening Program in Saratoga. [...]

Robert Cusick trained at Stanford University in the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) and has studied extensively in a number of different contemplative traditions. He is a Certified Stanford CCT (Compassion Cultivation [...]

Matthew Brensilver, PhD began practice in the Tibetan tradition, and since 2003 has studied with Shinzen Young. He served as a Buddhist chaplain at USC for four years and taught in the intersection of mindfulness [...]

Kim Allen practiced with Gil Fronsdal for a dozen years, and now serves on the Teacher’s Council at Insight Santa Cruz. She has spent cumulative two years in silent retreat, and lived for another two [...]

David Cohn began practice at Zen Center in 1969 with Suzuki Roshi, later becoming a disciple of Baker Roshi. A residential student at Tassajara, Green Gulch Farm, and City Center until 1984, he was ordained as [...]

Ann Dillon began meditating in 2003. As her meditation practice developed and evolved over the years, she discovered a natural inclination to the jhanas. In 2008 Ann began practicing and studying under the guidance of [...]