Harry Um

Harry (he/they) has practiced meditation since 2009 and trained as a facilitator at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center in 2012 and under JoAnna Hardy in 2013. He has led groups for Meditation Coalition and Dhamma Dena Meditation Center, and has ta... Read more

Mary Stancavage

Mary Stancavage has practiced meditation, yoga, and cultivated a spiritual practice for over 35 years and in 2009 was empowered to teach Buddhadharma. Mary is based in the Los Angeles area and teaches classes, retreats and does individual mentoring both... Read more

Dan Harris

Some people teach from the mountaintop.  I teach from the fetal position.  I’m not an unimpeachable guru or perfected being. I still have real challenges—as the aforementioned split with my co-founders amply illustrates.  In fact, my whole career as ... Read more

Chris Germer

Short Bio Chris Germer, PhD is a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School. He co-developed the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program with Kristin Neff in 2010 and MSC has since been taught to over 250,000 p... Read more

Nikki Mirghafori

Dr. Nikki Mirghafori is an Artificial Intelligence scientist and an internationally recognized Buddhist teacher. She serves as a Stewarding Teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, where she is also on the Board of Directors, and a Dharma Teacher at th... Read more

Ann Brand

Ann Brand, Ph.D. (she/her) is a mindfulness teacher, facilitator, and mentor based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Benefiting immensely from her personal practice of mindfulness meditation while grieving the loss of her mother, Ann recognized the benefits min... Read more

Andrés González

Andrés González, MSW (he/they/él) is a queer, two-spirit Mestizo with primarily Yaqui, Mexican, Spanish, & Scottish ancestries. He’s also a transracial adoptee, connected to a lineage of Indigenous adoptees separated from family, land, & cultu... Read more

Monica Magtoto

Monica Magtoto is an artist, yoga instructor, energy worker, curanderismo practitioner, and tarot reader based in San Francisco, Ca. Monica weaves modalities from her lifelong studies of energy and movement with Curanderismo, spirituality, and her artwo... Read more

Erin Selover

Erin Selover is a Dharma teacher with over 20 years of Buddhist training and serves as a residential retreat teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She currently works as a Spiritual Strategist with individuals and is a Somatic-Based Marriage and Fam... Read more

Vadan Ritter

Vadan teaches Yoga and Qi Gong through the San Francisco Public Health Department, and focuses on the healing power of Mindful Movement. She is also a UCLA trained Mindfulness facilitator and Licensed Acupuncturist. Her background includes over 30 year... Read more