Sydney Reece, MA

Sydney Reece, M.A., is trained in MBSR, certified in Stressed Teens, and uses Mindful Schools curriculum to teach others how to “hold ourselves with mindfulness when we feel vulnerable, sick, or in pain.” An educator with many years experience teaching ... Read more

Suzanne Smith, MSN, RN, NP

Suzanne Smith, MSN, RN, NP, is a Family Nurse Practitioner at UCLA where she is involved in Mind-Brain-Body research and has facilitated MBSR for research studies. Suzanne has been meditating with InsightLA since 2006, and is a graduate of Mindful Self-... Read more

Thomas Davis

Thomas Davis IV, is a Contemplative Artist based in Los Angeles who explores the connections between the principles of the Dharma, Christian Mysticism, Jazz Ethics, Poetry, Art, Storytelling and Science for a multi-disciplinary exploration of who we are... Read more

Emilie Rosanvallon

Emilie Rosanvallon moved to LA in 2011 from her hometown, Paris, France. She discovered meditation in 2001 at Vassar College in New York. Over the past 15 years, Emilie has studied Buddhism and practiced meditation with Zen communities (La Demeure sans ... Read more

Galen Swords

Galen Swords is a dedicated meditation practitioner and has had many years of practice. Her first retreat being a teen-meditation retreat when she was just thirteen. In her mid-twenties she became devoted to various mindfulness practices and recently co... Read more

James Rosser, LCSW

James has meditated for over 30 years, beginning in 1987 with James Baraz. He graduated from InsightLA’s Facilitator Training Program and  Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (Inaugural Class). James is a... Read more

Traca Gress, MA

Traca moved to LA from Portland, Maine in August of 2014 to pursue a Masters Degree in Yoga Studies at LMU. She completed that degree in May of 2016, and enjoys sharing her lifelong passions for yoga, dance, nature, art, gardening, travel, meditation an... Read more

Julian Kehs

Julian Kehs

Julian Kehs, M.Ed maintains a dedicated meditation practice, and became involved with InsightLA in 2013. They began their journey into facilitation by assisting Amy Spies’s Mindful Writer’s Group at InsightLA and recently completed InsightLA’s Mindfulne... Read more

Kris Peterson

Kris Peterson is a graduate of InsightLA’s Meditation Facilitator program. She is also a yoga teacher, writer, and professor of anthropology at UC Irvine. Before becoming an academic, Kris worked in the Bay Area as a crisis counselor in homeless and bat... Read more

Lisette Palley, LMFT, OTR/L

Lisette Palley, LMFT, OTR/L has been involved with meditation, yoga and tai chi since she was a teenager when she began practicing Transcendental Meditation. Her first meditation retreats were with Stephen and Ondrea Levine in the 1980’s, where she work... Read more