Addie deHilster

An experienced yoga teacher, certified yoga therapist, and yoga teacher trainer, Addie deHilster offers an integration of yoga, mindfulness meditation, and therapeutic movement. She first discovered yoga 20 years ago while in college studying Flute Perf... Read more

Bob Stahl, PhD

Bob Stahl, PhD, has founded eight Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programs in medical centers in the SF Bay Area and is currently offering programs at Dominican Hospital, El Camino Hospitals in Los Gatos and Mt. View, and Good Samaritan Hospit... Read more

Alexis Slutzky, MFT

Alexis Slutzky, MFT is a mentor, educator, guide and facilitator whose work supports cultural restoration through listening and mindfulness practices, nature connection, grief tending, dream work and community ritual. Alexis holds a Master’s Degree from... Read more

Alistair Shanks

Alistair, Zen Caregiving Projects Volunteer Program Manager, began serving as a volunteer with Zen Hospice Project at the Guest House in 2004, and then Laguna Honda Hospital, where he served for 10 years. During that time he also helped facilitate the N... Read more

Byron Katie

Byron Katie, founder of The Work, has one job: to teach people how to end their own suffering. As she guides people through the powerful process of inquiry she calls The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs—about life, other people, or themselve... Read more

Carol Cano, MA

Carol Cano, M.A. began her practice over 30 years ago at Wat Kow Tahm in Thailand and has actively engaged in building communities and teaching Dharma internationally.  She has completed a myriad of training programs at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and... Read more

Andrea Castillo

Andrea Castillo, originaria de la ciudad de México, ha practicado la meditación introspectiva (Insight o Vipassana) desde 1998. Sus maestros han sido Gil Fronsdal y Andrea Fella. Andrea ha impartido el dharma en español desde 2011 en el Insight Meditati... Read more

Anushka Fernandopulle

Anushka Fernandopulle is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and has trained for over 30 years in the Theravada Buddhist tradition in the U.S., India, and Sri Lanka. Anushka teaches retreats and workshops around the world. She also works as a leadership... Read more

Arinna Weisman

Arinna Weisman has studied insight meditation since 1979 and has been teaching since 1989. Her root teacher is Ruth Denison who was empowered by the great teacher U Bha Khin. She is the founding teacher of Insight Meditation Center of the Pioneer Valley... Read more

Chris Chapple

Chris Chapple trained in classical Yoga from 1972 to 1985 at Yoga Anand Ashram in Amityville, New York. He moved to Los Angeles in 1985, where he is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology. He has published more than a dozen books, including... Read more