Andrew Olendzki, Ph.D., was trained in Buddhist Studies at Lancaster University in England, as well as at Harvard and the University of Sri Lanka. The former executive director of IMS, he is currently the executive director and senior scholar at BCBS, and is editor of the Insight Journal. For a complete bibliography of his writing, please click here.

Mu Soeng is the study center’s program director and resident scholar. He trained in the (Korean) Zen tradition and was a monk for eleven years. He is the author of Thousand Peaks: Korean Zen (Tradition and Teachers); The Diamond Sutra: Transforming the Way We Perceive the World; and Trust in Mind: The Rebellion of Chinese Zen.

Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia has been a Dhamma teacher since 1990. She is a student of the western forest sangha, the disciples of Ajahn Sumedho and Ajahn Chah, and is a Lay Buddhist Minister in association with Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in California. She served as resident teacher of IMS in Barre, Massachusetts from 1996 through 1999.

James Austin, M.D. studied Zen in Kyoto, Japan with Kobori-Roshi while pursuing a career as academic neurologist. He is the author of Zen and the Brain; Zen-Brain Reflection; and the upcoming Selfless Insight: Zen-Brain and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness.

Martine Batchelor was a Zen Buddhist nun in Korea for ten years. She teaches meditation retreats worldwide. She is the author of The Path of Compassion and Women in Korean Zen: Lives and Practices. Her latest book is Let Go: A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits.

Stephen Batchelor was a monk for ten years in the Tibetan and Korean Zen traditions. He teaches meditation and Buddhism worldwide and is the author of many books, including Buddhism without Beliefs and Living with the Devil. He is currently working on a book, provisionally titled Confession of a Buddhist Atheist.

Gregory Bivens is a training coordinator on the Holistic Health Recovery Program and 3-S therapy, two structured HIV prevention interventions for drug users, based at Yale University’s School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Substance Abuse, Harm Reduction Unit.

Rebecca Bradshaw has a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and has worked as a Spanish-speaking psychotherapist in community mental health for the past twelve years. She is the guiding teacher of the Pioneer Valley Insight Meditation Center and teaches frequently at the Insight Meditation Society.

Leigh Brasington has been practicing meditation since 1985 and is the senior American student of the late Ven. Ayya Khema. Leigh began assisting Ven. Ayya Khemma in 1994, and was authorized to teach in 1997. He teaches in Europe and North America.

Jack Engler teaches and supervises psychotherapy trainees at Harvard Medical School, and has a private psychotherapy practice in Cambridge, MA. He is the co-author, among other books, of Transformations of Consciousness with Ken Wilber and Daniel Brown. He has been involved with IMS and BCBS from the beginning as a board member and teacher.

Ellison Findly teaches in the Religion and Asian Studies Departments at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. Her courses cover Buddhism, Hinduism, Asian art, Gandhi and non-violence, and Asian mysticism. Her research in Buddhism has focused on the understanding and treatment of women, practices of divination, views on plant life, and, currently, the design and use of textiles in Buddhist Southeast Asia.

Paul Fleischman, M.D. is a Teacher in the Vipassana Meditation tradition of S. N. Goenka. He is also a poet and psychiatrist, and is the author of Cultivating Inner Peace, Karma and Chaos, You Can Never Speak Up Too Often the Love of all Things, and other books.

Paul Fulton is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Newton, Massachusetts. He is Director of Mental Health for Tufts Health Plan, and president of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. He received tokudo initiation as a Zen Buddhist in 1972. He is the co-editor of the book Mindfulness and Psychotherapy.

Joseph Goldstein is a co-founder and guiding teacher of IMS. He has been teaching vipassana and metta retreats worldwide since 1974. In 1989, he helped establish BCBS and, more recently, The Forest Refuge. He is the author of One Dharma, The Experience of Insight, and Insight Meditation, and co-author of Seeking the Heart of Wisdom.

Susan Kaiser Greenland develops and teaches mindfulness programs to children as well as to classroom teachers, parents, therapists and health care professionals. The co-founder of InnerKids, she is a member of the clinical team for the Pediatric Pain Clinic at UCLA’s Children’s Hospital and a consultant with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center.

Rick Hanson, PhD began meditating in 1974 and has practiced in several traditions. A psychologist, writer and teacher in the emerging field of contemplative neuroscience, Rick co-founded the Heartwood Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. He is first author of Mother Nurture, and first author (with Rick Mendius, MD) of a book in progress titled The Awakening Brain: Practical Tools from the New Science of Happiness, Love, and Inner Peace.

Mark Hart has practiced insight meditation since 1981. He is the founder and guiding teacher of the Bodhisara Dharma Community. With a master’s degree in counseling and a Ph.D. in theology, he has a private practice of psychotherapy in Amherst.

Chip Hartranft is the founding director of The Arlington Center, dedicated to the integration of yoga and dharma practice, and has taught a blend of yoga movement, breathwork, and mindfulness in the Boston area since 1978. He is the author of The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali: A New Translation with Commentary.

Rajesh Kasturirangan is a faculty member at the National Institute of Advanced Studies at Bangalore, India. He has a doctorate in cognitive science from MIT.

Gregory Kramer is the director of Metta Foundation, and teacher of Insight Dialogue meditation and Dharma Contemplation worldwide. He has studied with, among others, Ajahn Sobin, Ven. Ananda Maitreya and Ven. Punnaji Mahathera.

Michael Liebenson Grady is a guiding teacher at Cambridge Insight Meditation Center. He also teaches at the Insight Meditation Society. Michael has been practicing vipassana since 1973.

Narayan Liebenson Grady is a guiding teacher at Cambridge Insight Meditation Center where she has been teaching since it opened in 1985. Narayan is also a guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Society. She is the author of When Singing, Just Sing: Life as Meditation.

Myoshin Kelley began practice in 1975 and has worked with masters in the Theravada and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. She is teacher-in-residence at the Forest Refuge.

David R. Loy teaches at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He studies Buddhist and comparative philosophy/religion and is the author of Non-duality, Lack and Transcendance, A Buddhist History of the West, The Great Awakening, and Liberating Buddhism (forthcoming). A Zen practitioner for many years, he is qualified as a teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition.

John Makransky has practiced meditations of compassion and wisdom from Tibetan traditions for thirty years and has pioneered new ways of making them accessible to people of all backgrounds and faiths. A professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College and senior advisor to Kathmandu University's Centre for Buddhist Studies in Nepal, John was ordained a Tibetan Buddhist lama in 2000.  He is the author, among others, of the newly published Awakening through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness.

Margo McLoughlin, a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School, has been translating and adapting the Jataka (stories of the Buddha’s former lives) since 1998. She performs for audiences of all ages in the United States and Canada.

Rick Mendius, MD is a neurologist in private practice in Marin County. He trained at UCLA as an epileptologist under Jerome Engel and as a neurobehaviorist under Frank Benson and Jeff Cummings. He has been on the teaching faculty of UCLA, Oregon Health Sciences University, and Stanford University. He has done meditation practice since the 1980s with various teachers, and teaches a weekly meditation class at San Quentin.

Willa Miller has studied and practiced in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for the last twenty years, and is an authorized lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She teaches Tibetan Buddhist practice and meditation in the Northeast. She has an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Virginia, and is working towards a PhD at Harvard University. Willa is author of the upcoming book  Everyday Dharma: Eight Weeks to Enlightened Living.

Jack Millett has practiced vipassana meditation since 1990 and has been teaching at Vermont Insight Meditation Center since 2005. He teaches education courses at the School for International Training and at the Center for Mindful Inquiry.

Phillip Moffitt is a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and the founder of the Life Balance Institute. He teaches vipassana meditation and is the author of Dancing with Life, a book exploring the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths.

Bill Morgan, Psy.D., is in private practice in Cambridge and Braintree, MA. He has practiced vipassana meditation for 30 years and has led weekend retreats since 1987. His doctoral project focused upon what it means to make progress in meditation.

Susan Morgan, MSN, RN, CS, is a mindfulness-oriented clinical nurse specialist in private practice in Cambridge. She has meditated in both Christian and Buddhist traditions for the past 20 years.

DaeJa Napier teaches vipassana with a particular emphasis on the brahmaviharas. She has practiced and studied in the Zen and vipassana traditions for over thirty years and has been teaching for nearly  twenty years. She maintained a formal practice while raising five children.

Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara is the abbot of the Village Zendo in Manhattan. She is a Soto Zen Priest and certified Zen Teacher in Maezumi Roshi’s White Plum lineage. She holds a Ph.D. in Media Ecology, and taught at NYU for twenty years.

John Peacock, an academic and meditation teacher for 25 years, currently teaches Buddhist studies and Indian religions at the University of Bristol. He is the Guiding Teacher of Sharpham Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Inquiry in England.

Jason Siff, a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka in the late 1980’s, has been teaching meditation in the United States since 1990. He is the founding teacher of the Skillful Meditation Project in Los Angeles.

Paul Simons is an experienced trainer on the Holistic Health Recovery Program and 3-S therapy, two structured HIV prevention interventions for drug users, based at Yale University’s School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Substance Abuse, Harm Reduction Unit. He has been working with drug users since 1979.

Claire Stanley, Ph.D.,  has been a student of Buddhist meditation since 1986. She is the guiding teacher of the Vermont Insight Meditation Center. As an educator, she teaches the interface of mindfulness practices in professional contexts at the Center for Mindful Inquiry.

Janet L. Surrey, Ph.D. is on the Faculty and Board of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. She is a clinical psychologist and a Founding Scholar of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Stone Center, Wellesley College. She has practiced Vipassana meditation for 28 years, and is a recent graduate of the Community Dharma Leader program of Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Her current work is focused on the interface of Buddhist and Relational psychology and relational practice.

Ajaan Thanissaro (Geoffrey DeGraff) has been a Theravadin monk since 1976. The abbot of Metta Forest Monastery in San Diego County, CA, he is a prolific translator of Pali texts and Thai meditation guides. He is the author, among other books, of Wings to Awakening, Mind Like Fire Unbound, and Meditations.

Mark Unno is currently Associate Professor of East Asian Religions at the University of Oregon. He specializes in medieval Japanese Buddhist thought and the philosophy of religion. He is the author of Shingon Refractions: Myoe and the Mantra of Light, and the editor of Buddhism and Psychotherapy Across Cultures. He is also an ordained priest in the Shin Buddhist tradition.

Taitetsu Unno is the Jill Ker Conway Professor Emeritus of Religion at Smith College in Northampton, MA. A priest ordained in the Shin Buddhist tradition, he is the author of Shin Buddhism: Bits of Rubble Turn into Gold, Tannisho: A Shin Buddhist Classic, and River of Fire, River of Water.

William Waldron, Ph. D. has been teaching courses on Buddhism, Hinduism, and the Study of Religion at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, since 1996. His research focuses on Indian Buddhism in general and the Yogācāra school in particular. He has published a monograph on the Yogācāra notion of ‘store-house consciousness’ (ālaya-vijñāna) (The Buddhist Unconscious, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) and numerous articles comparing Buddhist and modern theories of mind from evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and sociology.

Char Wilkins, MSW, LCSW has during the past eight years consistently taught MBSR, MBCT and MB-EAT programs and has had a personal meditation practice for thirteen years. She is a mindfulness-based psychotherapist, trains professionals in MBCT and MB-EAT, and serves as vice-president for the national Center for Mindful Eating.

Jan Willis is a professor of Religion at Wesleyan University. One of the earliest American scholar-practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism, she has studied with Buddhist teachers worldwide and has written extensively on Buddhist meditation, women and Buddhism, and Buddhism and race. Among her published works are Dreaming Me: An Aftrican American Woman’s Spiritual Journey and Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet.

Carol Wilson began meditation practice in 1971. She has studied with a variety of teachers, including practice as a Buddhist nun in Thailand. An IMS guiding teacher, she has been offering retreats around the world since 1986.

Susan Woods, MSW, LICSW, is a mindfulness-based psychotherapist in private practice and has practiced meditation and yoga since 1981. She teaches MBSR and MBCT groups and is a certified MBSR instructor and yoga teacher.  She trains health care professionals in mindfulness-based interventions and teaches MBCT professional training programs worldwide. She is a contributing author to The Clinical Handbook in Mindfulness.

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