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Louije Kim

Louije Kim, LMFT, is a San Francisco Bay Area based dharma practitioner, teacher and licensed psychotherapist. They have completed dharma study programs including Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioners and Community Dharma Leader programs, and recently g... Read more

Lane Igoudin

Lane is a member of Zen Center Los Angeles where he received his jukai (lay ordination) in 2016. He also learned dharma at InsightLA retreats with Jack Kornfeld and Philip Moffitt. An English professor at Los Angeles City College, Lane has written about... Read more

Alexis Moore

Alexis Moore serves as the Events Administrator for InsightLA, bringing her gratitude for the Dharma and passion for community to the forefront. With two years of dedicated practice in Vipassana meditation and study of Buddhist philosophy, Alexis integr... Read more

Timothy Bullock

Bro. Timothy Bullock was born in Fuquay Springs, North Carolina. Father and grandfather of 2 children and 5 grandchildren. Since 1998 have been working as a peace and social justice activist with the Buddhist order in their mission to create peace in t... Read more

Venerable Clear Grace Dayananda

Venerable Clear Grace Dayananda, a Black Buddhist Monk, received novice ordination under the guidance of Venerable Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in the Plum Village Vietnamese Zen tradition. Later, she attained higher ordination (upasampadān) with the Embr... Read more

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Enrique Collazo

Enrique Collazo is a compassionate and contemporary Mindfulness Meditation teacher rooted in the Buddhist Vipassana tradition since 2005. His practice, founded in the principles of Insight Meditation, extends to empowering people of all ages in Los Ange... Read more

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Ayya Santacitta

Ayya Santacitta was born in Austria and did her graduate studies in Cultural Anthropology, focusing on dance, theatre and ritual. She also worked in avant-garde dance theatre as a performer and costume designer. In 1988 she met Ajahn Buddhadasa in south... Read more

Kritee

Kritee (dharma name Kanko) is a Climate Scientist, Buddhist Zen priest, Educator & Founding Spiritual Director of Boundless in Motion. She is an ordained teacher in the Rinzai Zen Buddhist lineage of Cold Mountain and a co-founder of Rocky Mountain ... Read more

Danielle Elizabeth Stevens

Danielle Elizabeth Stevens, born and raised in Los Angeles, CA is an integrative health and wellness educator, healing justice consultant, and multi-disciplinary artist working in service of social change globally. Her expertise spans a range of modalit... Read more

René Rivera

René Rivera is a meditation teacher and restorative justice facilitator working and learning in all the spaces in-between race, gender, and other perceived binaries, as a queer Latinx trans man. René teaches heart-centered, trauma-informed meditation, a... Read more