Yongs initial doorway into the Dharma was through Soto Zen. His love for Vipassana began with his, then and now, primary teachers Kittisaro and Thanissara. He is currently a Dharma Council teacher at the Durango Dharma Center, teaches for the Chattanoog... Read more
Celeste Young
Celeste began formal meditation practice in 2002. She was invited to join the very first teacher development cohort at InsightLA under the guidance of founder Trudy Goodman in 2011 and has since taught thousands of students the essentials of mindfulness... Read more
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
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










