Phillip Moffitt

Phillip Moffitt occupies a unique position in the world of mindful living and leadership. With the astute business acumen honed during his years as a media entrepreneur combined with the deep wisdom about inner development cultivated over the past 30 ye... Read more

Rael Cahn, MD, PhD

Dr. Rael Cahn completed his PhD in Neurosciences in 2007 and received his medical degree in 2008 from UC San Diego in La Jolla, CA. He completed his residency with the UC Irvine Medical Center Psychiatry Residency Program in 2014 and joined the USC facu... Read more

Ram Dass

With a heavy heart we share that Ram Dass passed away on December 22, 2019. May he rest in loving awareness as he lives on in our hearts. Ram Dass first went to India in 1967. He was still Dr. Richard Alpert, a prominent Harvard psychologist and psyche... Read more

Angelike Dexter, JD

Angelike Dexter shares mindfulness and Mindful Self-Compassion tools with students of all ages in the Los Angeles area and now, on Zoom, around the world. Trained by Susan Kaiser Greenland (author of “The Mindful Child” and “Mindful Games”) and a gradua... Read more

Ralph De La Rosa, LCSW

Ralph De La Rosa, LCSW, is an internationally published author, psychotherapist in private practice, and seasoned meditation teacher. His new book, Dont Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak Outs is available wherev... Read more

Richard Schwartz, PhD

Richard Schwartz began his career as a systemic family therapist and an academic. Grounded in systems thinking, Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems (IFS) in response to clients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves. He focused on t... Read more

René Rivera

René Rivera

René Rivera is a leader and bridge-builder, working and learning in all the spaces in-between race, gender, and other perceived binaries, as a queer, mixed-race, trans man. René has been a student of the Dharma since 2004 and has been a part of the East... Read more

Deborah Vaupen

Deborah Vaupen has been practicing meditation for over 20 years. She has been trained as a mindfulness facilitator at InsightLA, and with Noah Levine at Against the Stream and Shinzen Young at Vipassana Support International. Deborah is a recovering fam... Read more

Rev. Daigan Gaither

Rev. Daigan Gaither began Buddhist practice in 1995 in the Vipassana (Insight) tradition before studying Zen in 2003 with Ryushin Paul Haller Roshi. He received Lay Ordination in 2006 where he was given the name Daigan or “Great Vow”, and received Pries... Read more

Rick Hanson, PhD

Rick Hanson, PhD, is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. He edits the Wise Brain Bulletin and has numerous audio programs. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA and founde... Read more