Helen Setyan

Dr. Helen Setyan is a board-certified physical therapist, Yoga Alliance-certified yoga instructor, and a trained Mindfulness Facilitator, through UCLA Mindfulness Awareness Research (MARC) dedicated to the practice and integration of the mind-body syste... Read more

Alisa Dennis, PhD

Alisa Dennis, Ph.D., discovered meditation through her study of metaphysics and ancient mystical traditions during the 1980s.  Since then, she’s trained in the Soto Zen tradition, MBSR, and most recently in the Theravada tradition.  Alisa completed Spir... Read more

Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD

Berlin to Los Angeles to InsightLA I started my professional life as a Gynecologist at the University Hospital in Berlin, Germany. I had fallen in love with the universality of the Buddhist teachings as a searching teenager and it surely helped me sta... Read more

Jack Kornfield, PhD

Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. After graduating from D... Read more

Jake Dartington

Jake loves to draw on classical and contemporary approaches to teaching mindfulness and compassion. He began to practice meditation in 1995 and trained as a dharma teacher with Christina Feldman, the co-founder of Gaia House retreat centre, before begin... Read more

Greg Serpa, PhD

J. Greg Serpa, PhD, is a clinical psychologist for the US Department of Veterans Affairs. He is honored to teach mindfulness to Americas veterans and is the first full-time mindfulness teacher and trainer in the federal system. He is developing a nation... Read more

Gregory Kramer

Gregory Kramer teaches meditation, writes, and is the founding teacher of the Insight Dialogue Community. He is the author of Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom, from Shambhala Publications; Dharma Contemplation: Meditating Together wit... Read more

Jaya Karen Rudgard

Jaya Karen Rudgard began meditating in 1984, and from 1996-2005 was ordained as a nun in the Thai forest tradition in the UK with Ajahn Sumedho as her main teacher. She graduated from the Spirit Rock and IMS teacher training in 2016 and teaches retreats... Read more

JD Doyle, MA

JD Doyle serves as a Core Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center and has held many roles there, including Board member and co-founder of the LGBTQIA2+ meditation group. JD is in the Spirit Rock teacher-training program and has participated in the Ded... Read more