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 [...]
Chade-Meng Tan
Shaila Catherine2017-02-16T09:35:02-08:00Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is a Google pioneer, awardwinning engineer, international bestselling author, thought leader and philanthropist. At Google, he brought the practice of mindfulness into the workplace with his mindfulness-based emotional intelligence course, Search Inside Yourself. Search [...]
Richard Shankman
Maureen Obrien2015-09-21T10:51:03-07:00Richard Shankman teaches at dharma centers and groups throughout North America. He has been a meditator since 1970 and is the guiding teacher of the Metta Dharma Foundation. He is the co-founder of the Sati Center for [...]
Erik Swanson
Maureen Obrien2015-07-28T16:58:16-07:00Reverend Erik Swanson is a spiritual director, speaker and retreat leader who teaches at several prominent seminaries on spiritual formation and the art of bringing an awareness of the Holy to all parts of life. [...]
Daniel Bowling
Maureen Obrien2015-07-28T14:41:00-07:00Daniel 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 [...]
Dawn Neal
Maureen Obrien2019-08-29T17:52:05-07:00Dawn Neal has accumulated over two years of silent retreat practice since 2005. She holds an MA from the Institute of Buddhist Studies, and has completed 15 months of professional ministry/ chaplaincy training (CPE). In [...]
Bob Stahl
Maureen Obrien2015-06-15T23:23:34-07:00Bob Stahl lived in a Theravada Burmese Buddhist monastery for over eight years and studied extensively with Taungpulu Kaba-Aye Sayadaw, Hlaing Tet Sayadaw, Dr. Rina Sircar, and Pokokhu Sayadaw. Bob is the Guiding teacher at [...]
Carla Brennan
Maureen Obrien2020-01-16T18:00:11-08:00CARLA BRENNAN is an Insight Meditation teacher in Santa Cruz, CA. She is the Guiding Teacher for Bloom of the Present Insight Meditation and teaches at other Insight Meditation centers around the Bay Area. Carla has practiced [...]
Bhikkhu Bodhi
JoAnne Baker2017-02-16T09:35:03-08:00Bhikkhu 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 [...]
Jennifer Dungan
JoAnne Baker2020-08-17T00:29:52-07:00Jennifer Dungan has worked at NASA Ames Research Center since 1987. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Southampton, UK on statistical approaches to predicting vegetation amount using satellite image data. Her past research [...]
Ajahn Brahm
Shaila Catherine2014-10-28T10:06:46-07:00Ajahn 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
1and12020-05-29T15:55:51-07:00Toni Bernhard is the author of the award-winning How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their Caregivers, (Second Edition, 2018), now available as a pocket-sized guide that’s intended for those who’ve read How [...]
Ayya Santussika
1and12018-07-25T13:42:51-07:00Ayya Santussika was a computer engineer and mother of two before becoming a Theravada Buddhist nun. She began teaching meditation in 1999 and entered monastic life in 2005, training primarily in the Ajahn Chah tradition. She [...]
Ronald Purser
1and12017-02-16T09:35:03-08:00Ronald Purser, Ph.D. is a professor of management at San Francisco State University where he has taught the last sixteen years in both the MBA and undergraduate business programs. He received his doctorate in organizational behavior [...]
Robert Cusick
1and12017-01-01T07:01:28-08:00Robert 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 [...]