Elizabeth Rice

Elizabeth Rice started studying with InsightLA’s guiding teacher, Trudy Goodman, in 2005. Utilizing skills developed as an attorney, and informed through meditation practice and personal experience, Elizabeth advocates for more compassionate and effecti... Read more

Pablo Das

I am trained as a Buddhist teacher and have been a practitioner for over 35 years. I have maintained a private coaching practice for two decades. I was on the founding teachers council at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society in Los Angeles and... Read more

Ava Louise Stanton, LCSW

Ava Louise Stanton is a long-time Zen student, beginning with 10 years of study as a founding member and resident of the Providence Zen Center with Zen Master Seung Sahn. She and Trudy Goodman had practiced there in the 1970’s, and she joined the teache... Read more

Gullu Singh, JD

Gulwinder “Gullu” Singh is a mindfulness and Dharma teacher who also practices corporate real estate law. Although he was exposed to meditation as a child, he found his own practice when, after law school, he found himself working at high-powered law fi... Read more

Lienchi Tran

Raised in a Mahayana Buddhist family in Vietnam, Lienchi Tran discovered meditation in 1984, inspired by the teachings of Thay Thich Nhat Hanh. Her journey deepened in 1992 when she attended a retreat with Bhante Khippapanno, leading her to ordain and f... Read more

Lisa Kring, LCSW

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... Read more

Melissa McKay

Melissa began her path of meditation in 1998 with a small group of dedicated practitioners in Oakland, CA with her beloved, though not known, teacher named Barbara Janus who introduced her to the teachings of Sayadaw U Pandita of Burma. Her first retrea... Read more

Maureen Shannon-Chapple

Maureen Shannon-Chapple has been a practitioner of yoga and meditation since her teenage years. Her professional life has included classroom teaching, parenting trainings, adult education, and college teaching. She is a 2008 graduate of Spirit Rock Medi... Read more

Carol Moss

Carol has been practicing meditation for nearly thirty years in the Tibetan, Zen and Vipassana (Insight) traditions. For sixteen years she has facilitated a non- denominational sitting-group, which includes guided and silent meditation followed by shari... Read more

David Le, MS

David is currently teaching meditation and mindful movement classes at the John Henry Foundation and Phoenix House. He is a graduate of Spirit Rocks Mindful Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training, which emphasizes the cultivation of mindful movements and ... Read more