Djuna Devereaux has taught the integration of yoga and Buddhist Dharma for 20 years. She teaches retreats at Spirit Rock and leads their Dharma and Yoga Teacher Trainings, and supports her primary Dharma teachers, Thanissara and Kittisaro, as a core tea... Read more
Adam Stonebraker, MA, ERYT500, YACEP
Adam Stonebraker discovered and began practicing Yoga and Meditation in 1999, and has been teaching to diverse audiences both locally and internationally since 2010. He draws his inspiration from his extensive training in Yin Yoga and his long-time trai... Read more
Elissa Epel Ph.D
About Elissa Epel
Elissa Epel, Ph.D, is an international expert in stress, well-being, and healthy aging. She is a Professor and Vice-Chair in the Department of Psychiatry, at University of California, San Francisco. She is the Director of the Aging, ... Read more
Melvin L. Escobar, LCSW, RYT
Melvin Escobar is a Core Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center, licensed psychotherapist and certified yoga instructor. Melvin has walked the path of service for much of his life, drawing on his experiences as a queer man of color born and raised in... Read more
Eres Medicina Music Ensemble
Ty Powers
Ty Powers co-founded the Insight Yoga Institute and has been leading Buddhist mindfulness meditation retreats throughout the world for over 20 years. He completed the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader training program in 2003 and has led daylong retre... Read more
Carrie Lau
Hong Kong-born and LA-based Carrie Lau is a multi-faceted talent: illustrator, art director, and maker of playfully minimalist ceramics. With her brand Object-Matter, her work is distinguished by their modern and curvilinear form, as well as their playf... Read more
Mei Elliott
Mei Elliott is a Dharma teacher in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, who practices at the intersection between Zen and Vipassana. Mei began training as a Zen monk at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in 2014, and has spent eight years living at Zen temples ... Read more
Alexis Santos
Alexis has been in the field of mindfulness and meditation since 2001. After graduating from Harvard University in 1995, he spent several years in medical school before leaving his chosen career as a doctor to seek out a different path. It was while tra... Read more
Crystal Goh
Crystal Goh is a mother, neuroscientist, and meditation teacher who has been practicing since the age of 15. She has deep roots in both Zen and vipassana lineages of dharma teaching, is fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, and has been working wi... Read more