[On Hold Until 2023] Breakfast for the Spirit: 15-Minute Morning Meditation

Tere Abdala Senior Teacher

Tere is second generation Mexican, with a Lebanese family background. She was born and lived in Mexico City almost all her life. There she became fascinated by Tibetan Buddhism. She moved to Los Angeles in 2002 with her now late husband and three young daughters. Once in LA, she met Trudy Goodman at InsightLA and... Read more

Megan Heiser Facilitator

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 and others in order to live a more awake and joyful life. She is dedicated to offering... Read more

Dina Aish, EdD Facilitator

Dina is an educator and mindfulness teacher with a doctorate degree in education and teaches methods and social emotional learning professionally at the college level and to elementary school faculties throughout Los Angeles, CA. She is a founding teacher with the Insight in Schools program and has a passion for supporting teachers with mindfulness and... Read more

Robin Hart Cohen Facilitator

Robin Hart began her meditation practice at Insight LA in 2013. She went on to graduate from Insight LA’s Facilitator Training Program and Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teachers Certification Program. She is a member of the International Meditation Teacher’s Association and has certificates of completion from UC Berkeley for the Power of... Read more

Carolina Huete-Lehman, LMFT Facilitator

Carolina Huete-Lehman is a licensed psychotherapist, LMFT, CMT-P and Certified Mindfulness Meditation Facilitator, completed the FT3 InsightLA Facilitator Training Program. She is Latina, fluent in Spanish, born in Nicaragua. She immigrated to the Los Angeles, California at a young age in 1963, she is multicultural and bilingual, her pronouns are she, her, hers.   Carolina’s... Read more

Lisette Palley, LMFT, OTR/L Facilitator

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 worked with issues around death and dying, and the AIDS crisis. She began her Vipassana/Insight meditation... Read more