Alisa Dennis, PhD

Alisa Dennis, Ph.D., discovered meditation through her study of metaphysics and ancient mystical traditions during the 1980s.  Since then, she’s trained in the Soto Zen tradition, MBSR, and most recently in the Theravada tradition.  Alisa completed Spir... Read more

Jack Kornfield, PhD

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 D... Read more

Jake Dartington

Jake loves to draw on classical and contemporary approaches to teaching mindfulness and compassion. He began to practice meditation in 1995 and trained as a dharma teacher with Christina Feldman, the co-founder of Gaia House retreat centre, before begin... Read more

Jaya Karen Rudgard

Jaya Karen Rudgard began meditating in 1984, and from 1996-2005 was ordained as a nun in the Thai forest tradition in the UK with Ajahn Sumedho as her main teacher. She graduated from the Spirit Rock and IMS teacher training in 2016 and teaches retreats... Read more

Greg Serpa, PhD

J. Greg Serpa, PhD, is a clinical psychologist for the US Department of Veterans Affairs. He is honored to teach mindfulness to Americas veterans and is the first full-time mindfulness teacher and trainer in the federal system. He is developing a nation... Read more

JD Doyle, MA

JD Doyle (they/them) served as Core Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center, where they co-founded the Alphabet(LGBTQIA+) Sangha, and as Guiding Teacher at Insight Santa Cruz. They graduated from Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Retreat Teacher Trainin... Read more

JoAnna Hardy

JoAnna Hardy has been exploring and practicing multiple traditions since 1999. In 2005, her focus landed on Buddhism and Vipassana meditation, which is the premise for most of her current teaching. Teaching in communities and to individuals that dont ty... Read more

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD,  is founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founding director of its renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and Prof... Read more

Joseph Goldstein

Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and lovingkindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the organization’s guiding teachers. In 1989, together... Read more

Jozen Tamori Gibson

Jozen Tamori Gibson (they, them) began formal meditation practice in 2004 through Sotō Zen while living in Japan joined by a Theravada practice in 2010. Jozen is a graduate of the four-year Insight Meditation Society (IMS) Dharma Teacher Training progra... Read more