La Sarmiento

La has been practicing Vipassana meditation since 1998. They are IMCW’s Board President the Guiding Teacher of the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ Sanghas, a mentor for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, a teacher with Cloud Sangha, and a cont... Read more

Paul Kivel

Paul Kivel’s work grows out of five decades in community education, engaged parenthood, political writing, and practical activism, all focused on one overriding question: How can we live and work together to nurture each individual and create a multicul... Read more

Denise Wiesner

Certified by ABORM, the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine, Denise Wiesner is founder of Natural Healing & Acupuncture in West Los Angeles, California, a certified sex coach, Licensed Acupuncturist, and herbalist. When she isnt working... Read more

Delia Román

Delia is a mindfulness facilitator at schools, non-profit organizations and private companies in Puerto Rico. Also, as professional coach, she works with individuals privately to help them develop meditation practice and acquire the skills to navigate w... Read more

Dina Aish, EdD

Dina is an educator and mindfulness teacher with a doctorate degree in education and teaches methods and social emotional learning professionally at the college level and to elementary school faculties throughout Los Angeles, CA. She is a founding teach... Read more

Albert Flynn Desilver

Albert is the founder of Writing as a Path to Awakening, which is about an embodied inter- connected approach to creativity and writing, helping us to reignite the joy, fun, spontaneity, and wisdom in our practice and process of writing. Writing as a Pa... Read more

Elizabeth Stomp

Elizabeth Hernandez-Stomp (ella, ellas, she, hers) has been a dedicated mindfulness meditation practitioner since 2013. Her interest and love for the Dharma led her to pursue further studies in the Tibetan Buddhism lineage with Geshe Tashi Tsering of Ja... Read more

Ron Ames

Ron Ames is a film producer, a meditation teacher and a change and transition strategist. Ron graduated from UCLA’s film school and went on to study with Lee Strasberg at the Actor’s Studio and Strasberg Institute and Milton Katselas at The Beverly Hil... Read more

Trudy Goodman, PhD

Trudy Goodman, PhD, is the Founding Teacher of InsightLA, the first center to combine training in Insight (Vipassana) Meditation and in non-sectarian mindfulness and compassion practices, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful S... Read more

Lama Rod Owens

Considered one of the leaders of the next generation of Dharma teachers, Lama Rod Owens, has a blend of formal Buddhist training and life experience that gives him a unique ability to understand, relate, and engage with those around him in a way that’s ... Read more