KIMBER SIMPKINS BBRC Big Bear Retreat Center

Kimber Simpkins

Kimber (She/her), for over twenty years, has been learning and teaching how to use meditation and movement to improve our relationships with our bodies, our spirits, our communities, and our world. Kimber is a white, cis, queer mom and author who’s tau... Read more

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Ream

Ream, pronouns:  She/They. Ream is a queer organizer and somatics practitioner of European ancestry currently in Oakland, CA, organizing for economic and racial justice and immigrants’ rights, working for over 25 years in the labor movement and currentl... Read more

Em Morrison BBRC Big Bear Retreat Center

Em Morrison

Em became interested in mindfulness and meditation in 2011 because she was having the best day of her life (just kidding). She loves nothing more than creating safe, fun, and healthy spaces for teens and adults to flourish. She has taught mindfulness at... Read more

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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

Ayya Santacitta Big Bear Retreat Center

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