JoAnna Hardy has been exploring and practicing multiple traditions since 1999. In 2005, her focus landed on Buddhism and Vipassana meditation, which is the premise for most of her current teaching. Teaching in communities and to individuals that dont ty... Read more
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founding director of its renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and Prof... Read more
Joseph Goldstein
Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and lovingkindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the organization’s guiding teachers. In 1989, together... Read more
Jennifer Ward
Jennifer Ward is a Certified Change & Transition Strategist. She works with individuals in private consultation and leads group workshops focusing on how to skillfully navigate major life changes and maintain a sense of well-being. This work is grou... Read more
Angela Stubbs, MA, MFA
Angela produces creative content and manages digital and event marketing for InsightLA.
She began her work with meditation as a graduate student at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where a contemplative education helped inform her art as a poet a... Read more
Jozen Tamori Gibson
Jozen Tamori Gibson (they, them) began formal meditation practice in 2004 through Sotō Zen while living in Japan joined by a Theravada practice in 2010. Jozen is a graduate of the four-year Insight Meditation Society (IMS) Dharma Teacher Training progra... Read more
Allyson Pimentel, EdD
Allyson Pimentel, EdD is a psychologist, yoga teacher, and long-time Vipassana meditation practitioner and teacher who works at the intersection of mindfulness, mental health, healing, and social justice. Allyson has been teaching mindfulness in clinic... Read more
John Prendergast, PhD
John Prendergast is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and received an undergraduate degree from UC Santa Cruz as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a priv... Read more
Jonathan Prescott, BCC BCCC BCPC
Jonathan Prescott, BCC BCCC BCPC is a Board Certified Chaplain, Clinical Chaplain, and Pastoral Counselor. As a long time ordained student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, Jonathan’s practice is to support people experiencing illness and end of life, fos... Read more
Lisa Ernst
Lisa Ernst is a meditation teacher, artist and founder of One Dharma Nashville. In her teaching, Lisa emphasizes both transformational insight and everyday awakening as an invitation to embrace all of the path’s possibilities. Lisa has been meditating f... Read more