Valerie Cusson

Valerie Cusson M.Ed,  has been practicing Insight Meditation since 2002. She completed Level I Community Facilitator Training with Noah Levine and JoAnna Hardy in 2012 and Level II Facilitator Training with JoAnna Hardy and Vinny Ferraro in 2016. She en... Read more

LuLu Toselli

Lulu Toselli

Lulu Toselli has been sharing sound-baths since 2015, with a group she co- founded in L.A. called, Forestkind. She has since graduated from InsightLA’s Mindfulness Facilitator Training program, guiding sitting groups at InsightLA East. In 2018, she star... Read more

Wendy Schmelzer, LCSW

Wendy Schmelzer has been teaching meditation in health and healing environments since 2006 -- most recently as an instructor at the Greater Los Angeles VA where for five years she taught mindfulness and compassion practices to staff, veterans, and famil... Read more

Maria Egan

Maria Egan is a veteran music industry executive, currently serving as President of Pulse Music Group in Los Angeles after eight years as Vice President of A&R at Columbia Records. Maria also founded a community for women creators and allies called ... Read more

Mariela Bravo

Mariela Bravo is a bilingual-bicultural certified Mindfulness and Compassion Meditation Teacher. She is the founder of The Mindful Hour, a project with the aim of bringing mindfulness and compassion practices to different communities especially to those... Read more

Martin Vitorino, Ph.D.

Martin Vitorino, Ph.D. is both a facilitator and the Deputy Executive Director at InsightLA. He leads guided meditations at InsightLA East Hollywood and facilitates the Mindful Transitions for the Transgender Community practice group that takes place on... Read more

Megan Heiser

Megan’s practice originates from the Zen Soto tradition of Shunryu Suzuki- roshi, in Sonoma County, California, where she learned from her father, a student of Suzuki-roshi. Today, she teaches the principals of Mindfulness and compassion for the self an... Read more

Melissa Hitt, MPH

Melissa Hitt is a graduate of InsightLAs Facilitator Training Program and loves practicing and sharing mindfulness with others. Melissa’s practice is informed by her passion for pyscho-spiritual inquiry, Buddhist studies, and yoga. She has a Masters in ... Read more

Nico Cary

Nico Cary (he/him) is a dharma practitioner, mindfulness facilitator, writer and performance artist. He received his BA from UC Berkeley’s Interdisciplinary Studies Field School, specializing in cognitive linguistics and graduated from InsightLA’s Facil... Read more

Onyx Starrett

Onyx Starrett

Onyx (they/ellx) is a queer nonbinary graduate of InsightLAs Facilitator Training program. They have been practicing formal meditation since 2016. Their intention is to facilitate sangha (community) and to center the voices and experiences of folx from ... Read more