Erin Treat Teacher BBRC Big Bear Retreat Center

Erin Treat

Erin Treat is a guiding teacher at Vallecitos and the Durango Dharma Center and she is a core teacher at Spirit Rock. Erin is committed to fostering communities of belonging by sharing the depth of the dharma In both her teaching and Dharma leadership, ... Read more

April Dávila

April Dávila is an award-winning author and writing coach. Publisher’s Weekly called her debut novel, 142 Ostriches, a “vivid, uplifting debut” and the book went on to win the WILLA Award for Women Writing the West. Writer’s Digest listed her blog (at a... Read more

Djuna Deveraux,E-RYT, SEP

Djuna Devereaux has taught the integration of yoga and Buddhist Dharma for 20 years. She teaches retreats at Spirit Rock and leads their Dharma and Yoga Teacher Trainings, and supports her primary Dharma teachers, Thanissara and Kittisaro, as a core tea... Read more

Adam Stonebraker, MA, ERYT500, YACEP

Adam Stonebraker discovered and began practicing Yoga and Meditation in 1999, and has been teaching to diverse audiences both locally and internationally since 2010. He draws his inspiration from his extensive training in Yin Yoga and his long-time trai... Read more

Elissa Epel Ph.D

About Elissa Epel  Elissa Epel, Ph.D, is an international expert in stress, well-being, and healthy aging. She is a Professor and Vice-Chair in the Department of Psychiatry, at University of California, San Francisco. She is the Director of the Aging, ... Read more

Ty Powers

Ty Powers co-founded the Insight Yoga Institute and has been leading Buddhist mindfulness meditation retreats throughout the world for over 20 years. He completed the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader training program in 2003 and has led daylong retre... Read more

Carrie Lau

Carrie Lau

Hong Kong-born and LA-based Carrie Lau is a multi-faceted talent: illustrator, art director, and maker of playfully minimalist ceramics. With her brand Object-Matter, her work is distinguished by their modern and curvilinear form, as well as their playf... Read more

Alexis Santos

Alexis has been in the field of mindfulness and meditation since 2001. After graduating from Harvard University in 1995, he spent several years in medical school before leaving his chosen career as a doctor to seek out a different path. It was while tra... Read more

Crystal Goh

Crystal Goh is a mother, neuroscientist, and meditation teacher who has been practicing since the age of 15. She has deep roots in both Zen and vipassana lineages of dharma teaching, is fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, and has been working wi... Read more

Tonya Jones

Tonya has been practicing in the Vipassana tradition for 12 years, has sat many silent retreats and is a certified mindfulness facilitator (UCLA MARC). She is a mentor for UCLAs Intensive Practice Program, a guest teacher at InsightLAs POC Sangha, and a... Read more