Dawn Mauricio

Dawn Mauricio (she/her) has been practicing and studying Insight Meditation since 2005. She has graduated from the first teacher development group of True North Insight, and Spirit Rocks Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation Training, Dedicated Practitioners ... Read more

Cindy Rasicot

Cindy Rasicot is a retired psychotherapist and author of This Fresh Existence: Heart Teachings from Bhikkhuni Dhammananda. This book tells the remarkable life of Venerable Dhammananda and shares her gentle wisdom about how to live a more powerful and co... Read more

Dawn Scott

Dawn Scott has been practicing insight meditation since 2008, is a Diamond Heart practitioner, and currently serves as the Family Program Coordinator at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She teaches teen retreats at Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme... Read more

Dana DePalma, LMFT

Dana DePalma has practiced Insight Meditation since 1993 and is a guiding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She has explored the Nine Bodies of Consciousness as a support for Insight meditation with Phillip Moffitt since 2007, including multiple... Read more

Nicki Wong - Visiting Teacher, Insight LA Meditation

Nicki Wong

Nicki Wong is a practitioner of energy and sound as tools to heal the etheric fields around the human body which can immediately affect change in a person’s outlook and allow them to tap into their own inner guidance and intuition. Through aligning hers... Read more

Alex Maizuss

Alex Maizuss is a highly regarded Mindfulness Intervention expert and mindfulness-based personal development coach. With training in Hakomi (Mindfulness Centered Somatic Psychotherapy) and certifications in MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction), mPE... Read more

Venerable Dhammananda

Venerable Dhammananda changed the landscape of her native Thailand by becoming the first woman to receive full ordination in the Theravada Buddhist tradition as a bhikkhuni (female monastic). Ordained in Sri Lanka in 2001, she faced enormous ridicule an... Read more

Donald Rothberg

Donald Rothberg, PhD

Donald Rothberg, PhD, has practiced Insight Meditation since 1976, and has also received training in Tibetan Dzogchen, Mahamudra practice, the Hakomi approach to body-based psychotherapy, and the Somatic Experiencing approach to working with trauma. For... Read more

David Treleaven, PhD

David Treleaven, PhD, is a writer, educator, and trauma professional whose work focuses on the intersection of trauma, mindfulness, and social justice. He is author of the book Trauma- Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing... Read more

Frank Ostaseski

Frank Ostaseski is an internationally respected Buddhist teacher and visionary cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, and founder of the Metta Institute. He has lectured at Harvard Medical School, the Mayo Clinic, Wisdom.2.0 and teaches at major spiritua... Read more