Paloma Cain

Paloma Cain, MA, has been teaching with InsightLA since 2009. She loves helping new practitioners develop a reliable, nourishing meditation practice and also mentoring seasoned practitioners to develop the wisdom to pass these practices on meaningfully ... Read more

Elliott Law, MS, CYT-200

Elliott Law has studied mindfulness since 2011 and maintains a dedicated practice. At InsightLA, Elliott teaches Unwinding Anxiety and Mindful Eating Mindfulness-based Habit Change courses, Essentials of Mindfulness courses, and co-facilitates the LGBTQ... Read more

Eric McCullum, MA

Eric McCullum first discovered meditation in the early 1990’s. In 2005, he began practicing in the Vipassana tradition with InsightLA. After nearly 20 years of practice under Trudy Goodman and over 10 years of leading groups and teaching classes with In... Read more

Spring Washam

Spring Washam is a well-known meditation teacher, author and visionary leader based in California and Peru. She is the author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in Any Moment. Spring is considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-b... Read more

Izumi Tanaka

Izumi has been practicing mindfulness meditation for almost 20 years and recently finished the facilitator training at InsightLA. As a freelance photographer, and real estate professional, she has led entrepreneurial womens networking groups since 2000;... Read more

JD Lloyd, MFA

JD Lloyd is a long-time member of the InsightLA Meditation Community, where he received his training to facilitate mindfulness classes. He has additional training to conduct courses in Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) and MSC for Shame, and he has also rec... Read more

Joslyn Hitter

Joslyn B. Hitter has been studying Insight Meditation since 2008. Her approach to Insight Meditation is greatly informed by her Master’s degrees in Counseling and Psychology, and Somatic Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, ... Read more

Wendy Block, LCSW

Wendy N. Block began practicing meditation at age 18, studying different traditions, including Buddhist, Hindu, and Advaita paths. She has been practicing Vipassana meditation for 20 years, and has helped teach and organize meditation programs in Long B... Read more

Tere Abdala

Tere is second generation Mexican, with a Lebanese family background. She was born and lived in Mexico City almost all her life. There she became fascinated by Tibetan Buddhism. She moved to Los Angeles in 2002 with her now late husband and three young ... Read more

Karen David

Karen has been meditating since 1991, and practicing in the Theravada tradition since 2005. She really appreciates the benefits of a regular meditation practice which for her has included becoming less reactive, less afraid, more open minded, gentler, a... Read more