Ali Hedayat

Ali has had an interest in contemplation since childhood which has led him to study various philosophical and human behavior deciplines and pursue various contemplative paths. He has been practicing Meditation since Mid 90s and completed the first facil... Read more

Alicia Tolbert

As the daughter of a civil rights attorney and a New Thought minister, Alicia has had one foot in social justice and the other in spirituality her entire life. She has been studying and then teaching the Buddhist path since 2005 with an emphasis in Refu... Read more

George Mumford

George T. Mumford has taught meditation since 1986 in a range of environments, from prisons to Harvard Medical School. Also known as The Mindfulness Performance Whisperer, George is a highly acclaimed and leading expert in sports psychology and performa... Read more

Chris Spurrell

Chris is a recent graduate of the InsightLA Mindfulness Facilitator Training Program. Chris came to practice in San Francisco, sitting regularly and taking retreats at Spirit Rock and the San Francisco Insight Sangha led by Eugene Cash. Chris moved to L... Read more

Francesca Marguerite Maximé, LMSW

Francesca Marguerite Maximé, LMSW is a Haitian-Dominican Italian-American Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), IMTA-accredited certified mindfulness meditation teacher (CMT-P), certified Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy for Complex Trauma wellbe... Read more

Gil Fronsdal

Gil Fronsdal has practiced Zen and vipassana since 1975 and has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Stanford. Trained by Jack Kornfield, he is the founder and primary teacher of the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California and is also a husban... Read more

Sandra Oh

Sandra Oh stars in BBC AMERICA’s new thriller Killing Eve as Eve Polastri, a bored, whip-smart, paygrade MI5 security officer whose desk-bound job doesn’t fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. When she’s tasked with hunting down Villanelle (Jodie Comer)... Read more

Harry Um

Harry Um (he/they) has been a dedicated mindfulness practitioner for over 10 years. He was trained in meditation facilitation by JoAnna Hardy and Vinny Ferraro through Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, and is a certified mindfulness traine... Read more

Helane Marie Anderson

Helane Marie Anderson is a transformational voice coach, singer, pianist, sound healer, musician, composer, energy healer, author, multi-instrumentalist and teacher. Her unique style of working with sound blends her years of studying healing modalities ... Read more