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  • Location Santa Monica Meditation Center
  • Experience Levels All
  • This class is a donation based class. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
  • Date/Time Sunday, December 14, 2025
    10:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT
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Refund and Event Policies

Join us for Insight LA’s holiday celebration. We will begin with taking the refuges and precepts, followed by a meditation. The party will begin at 11am PT and hors d’oeuvres, dessert and beverages will be served.

If you would like to offer an appetizer for this event, please contact Melissa: melissa@insightla.org.

We look forward to celebrating with you.

Jack Kornfield, PhD Dharma Council, Visiting Teacher

Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. After graduating from Dartmouth College in Asian Studies in 1967 he joined the Peace Corps and worked on... Read more

Trudy Goodman, PhD Teacher

Trudy Goodman, PhD, is the Founding Teacher of InsightLA, the first center to combine training in Insight (Vipassana) Meditation and in non-sectarian mindfulness and compassion practices, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC). The fourth teacher ever of MBSR, Trudy taught with its creator, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and studied Buddhist meditation for 40... Read more

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