Traca Gress, MA

Traca moved to LA from Portland, Maine in August of 2014 to pursue a Masters Degree in Yoga Studies at LMU. She completed that degree in May of 2016, and enjoys sharing her lifelong passions for yoga, dance, nature, art, gardening, travel, meditation an... Read more

Kris Peterson

Kris Peterson is a graduate of InsightLA’s Meditation Facilitator program. She is also a yoga teacher, writer, and professor of anthropology at UC Irvine. Before becoming an academic, Kris worked in the Bay Area as a crisis counselor in homeless and bat... Read more

Lisette Palley, LMFT, OTR/L

Lisette Palley, LMFT, OTR/L has been involved with meditation, yoga and tai chi since she was a teenager when she began practicing Transcendental Meditation. Her first meditation retreats were with Stephen and Ondrea Levine in the 1980’s, where she work... Read more

Valerie Cusson

Valerie Cusson M.Ed,  has been practicing Insight Meditation since 2002. She completed Level I Community Facilitator Training with Noah Levine and JoAnna Hardy in 2012 and Level II Facilitator Training with JoAnna Hardy and Vinny Ferraro in 2016. She en... Read more

Lulu Toselli

Lulu Toselli (she/her) is a Brazilian-American artist, dharma practitioner, and mindfulness facilitator. She has practiced meditation since 2002 and trained as a mindfulness facilitator at InsightLA with Trudy Goodman and Maureen Shannon-Chapple, in the... Read more

Wendy Schmelzer, LCSW

Wendy Schmelzer has been teaching meditation in health and healing environments since 2006 -- most recently as an instructor at the Greater Los Angeles VA where for five years she taught mindfulness and compassion practices to staff, veterans, and famil... Read more

Maria Egan

Maria Egan is a veteran music industry executive, currently serving as President of Pulse Music Group in Los Angeles after eight years as Vice President of A&R at Columbia Records. Maria also founded a community for women creators and allies called ... Read more

Martin Vitorino, Ph.D.

Martin Vitorino, Ph.D. is both a facilitator and the Deputy Executive Director at InsightLA. He leads guided meditations at InsightLA East Hollywood and facilitates the Mindful Transitions for the Transgender Community practice group that takes place on... Read more

Mariela Bravo

Mariela Bravo is a bilingual-bicultural certified Mindfulness and Compassion Meditation Teacher. She is the founder of The Mindful Hour, a project with the aim of bringing mindfulness and compassion practices to different communities especially to those... Read more

Nico Cary

Nico Cary (he/him) is a dharma practitioner, mindfulness facilitator, writer and performance artist. He received his BA from UC Berkeley’s Interdisciplinary Studies Field School, specializing in cognitive linguistics and graduated from InsightLA’s Facil... Read more