David Cabrera has been a Vipassana practitioner and instructor since 2007 and received certification through Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program in 2021. He is currently a mentor, and is part of the facul... Read more

Alli Simon (she/her) is a 5th generation Angeleno and a dedicated advocate for social justice, healing, and wellbeing. She is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Black Being, a certified yoga instructor (500 RYT Yoga Alliance), and a meditation fac... Read more

Devin Berry is an Insight Meditation practitioner and Guiding Teacher at the Insight Meditation Society, as well as a visiting teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Devin co-founded Deep Time Liberation, a program exploring ancestral healing and the... Read more

Michelle Becker, M.A., is a marriage and family therapist, and compassion teacher. She is a senior teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion and Compassion Cultivation Training, a certified Daring Way Facilitator, and a senior trainer at the UC San Diego Cente... Read more

Megan Prager, M.A. is Co-Founder of Mindful Labs and Compassion Programs Director at UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. She is a Certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Instructor (MBSR), a Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Instructor (MSC), a Ce... Read more

Ayya Santussika is a Theravada bhikkhuni who is trained and practicing in the Thai Forest tradition. Her faith in the Dhamma developed during many visits to monasteries of Ajahn Chah and his disciples in Thailand, America, England, New Zealand, and Aust... Read more

Diana Clark, PhD, is a dedicated dharma teacher based in the San Francisco Bay Area, teaching primarily at the Insight Meditation Center and Insight Retreat Center. Her extensive meditation experience includes years of silent retreats at Spirit Rock, IM... Read more

Nina Rao first learned sacred chants, as a young girl from her grandfather in south India, and the chants stayed quietly with her until she rediscovered this powerful practice with Krishna Das in New York in 1996. Since then she has been KD’s business m... Read more

Henry Shukman is a poet, author, and Zen master in the Sanbo Zen lineage. He is the founder of the Original Love meditation program, spiritual director emeritus at Mountain Cloud Zen Center, and co-founder of the single-path meditation app The Way. His ... Read more