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  • Location Hollywood Forever Cemetery
  • Experience Levels All
  • This class is a donation based class. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
  • Date/Time Monday, December 30, 2024
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PT
  • Ride Sharing Sign-Up

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Join InsightLA’s east side teachers for this weekly drop-in community sit, supporting relevant Buddhist practices and teachings, mindful connection, and spiritual community at Hollywood Forever Cemetery! 

Hollywood Meditation Group

Expect experiential meditation, relational practices, community support and sharing, immediately followed by a relaxed and wholesome social time. Come and build a mindful community with us!

On select Mondays the community sit will take the format of a special class or class series. Please register for these donation-based classes at the links provided below. 

We meet on Mondays 7pm-8:30pm:

September 2: Robert Lurye and Lisa Kring
September 9: Lisa Kring
September 16: Lisa Kring
September 23: Nico Cary
September 30: Robert Lurye
October 7: Rosamaría Segura
October 14: Robert Lurye
October 21: Nico Cary
October 28: Lisa Kring

Where is this practice located?

The Hollywood meditation group meets in person at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Please arrive via 6000 Santa Monica Blvd. Tell the guard at the front you are there for an InsightLA event. They will show you where to park and meet the group. 

Please read the notes, directions and accessibility information here.   

To offer or join a ride share, please sign up here.

Please note: In keeping with the principles of the dharma that underlie our activities, primarily non-harming, we are requiring that all attendees be fully vaccinated in order to attend in-person. Masks are optional as all attendees are fully vaccinated.


By Donation:

Although this is a donation-based class, registration is required.

Suggested donation: $25

Lisa Kring, LCSW Teacher

Lisa Kring is an LCSW (MSW-USC) and is a committed practitioner of Theravada Vipassana mediation for over twenty years. She is a graduate of the Dedicated Practitioner’s Program and Advanced Practitioner Program at Spirit Rock, and has studied with many teachers over the years, including Dan Siegel, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ven Analayo, Ven Ayya Tathaaloka and... Read more

Lulu Toselli Teacher

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 started Farout Meditation, to merge mindfulness with her love of sound and visuals. After a decade of long,... Read more

Michael Karakashian, PhD Teacher

Michael joined the InsightLA community in 2014 and has been practicing insight meditation and a commitment to inner self-development since 1998. His initial/primary teacher at that time was a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, among others. He has a deep commitment to inner self-development and to bringing practice from the cushion into daily life. Michael’s... Read more

Robert Lurye, MEd Teacher

Robert Lurye is an artist, educator, and meditation practitioner who loves teaching the ancient wisdom and modern science of mindful living. He is a certified MBSR teacher through Brown University Mindfulness Center and UMass Medical School’s Center for Mindfulness. Robert became a certified Mindfulness facilitator through InsightLA and is also a qualified facilitator for Dr.... Read more

Rosamaría Segura Teacher

Leer Abajo en Español  Rosamaría is both a teacher and former Director of Insight in Action. She is passionate about sharing mindfulness practices in communities with limited exposure to meditation practices. Rosamaría enjoys teaching in both Spanish and English in non-profit organizations, public schools, and people dedicated to socio-economic and environmental justice in Los Angeles, East... Read more

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