Teacher directory
Start with the teachers many visitors search for first, then follow the links into related podcast episodes, guided audio, videos, and teacher profiles across the site.
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Buddhist teacher, author, and founding teacher at Spirit Rock
Known for bringing Buddhist psychology and heart-centered meditation into everyday life, including forgiveness, compassion, and wise action.
Loving-kindness teacher and New York Times bestselling author
A leading voice in metta, compassion, and practical meditation for resilience, relationships, and real-world change.
Physician, author, and teacher on trauma, addiction, and healing
His work helps connect compassion, nervous-system awareness, and emotional healing with a deeper understanding of human behavior.
Insight meditation teacher and co-founder of Insight Meditation Society
A central teacher in the Western vipassana tradition, with clear instruction on awareness, loving-kindness, equanimity, and liberation.
Researcher, author, and pioneer in self-compassion
Her work translates self-compassion research into practices for resilience, emotional care, and healthier self-relationship.
Psychologist, author, and teacher of neuropsychology-informed practice
He teaches practical ways to steady the mind, grow inner strengths, and understand how attention shapes the brain.
Neuroscientist and founder of the Center for Healthy Minds
A leading researcher on meditation, emotion, well-being, and the trainable qualities of the mind.
Insight meditation teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Center
A deeply practical teacher of mindfulness, breath awareness, metta, forgiveness, and classical Buddhist practice.
Meditation teacher and author on mindful communication
He bridges contemplative practice and communication skills, especially for presence, listening, conflict, and wise speech.
Psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and habit-change researcher
He translates brain science into practical mindfulness tools for anxiety, craving, mindful eating, and behavior change.
Clinical psychologist and co-founder of mindful self-compassion training
His teaching brings compassion practice into therapy, emotional resilience, and a kinder relationship with difficult experience.
Trauma-sensitive mindfulness teacher and author
He helps practitioners adapt mindfulness with care for trauma, nervous-system safety, choice, pacing, and clinical context.
Mindfulness teacher and author for children, families, and educators
Her work makes contemplative practice accessible for children through games, attention training, kindness, and embodied learning.
Mindfulness teacher, performance coach, and author
He teaches presence, resilience, and high-performance mindfulness informed by decades of work with athletes and leaders.
Meditation teacher, author, and nature-based mindfulness guide
His teaching connects awareness practice with nature, silence, emotional clarity, and contemplative life in the modern world.
Author and teacher on meditation, dream yoga, and death practice
He offers clear teachings on contemplative depth, sleep and dream practice, nonduality, and preparing wisely for change.
Mindfulness teacher, researcher, and Indigenous health scholar
Her teaching brings mindfulness together with community healing, cultural humility, justice, and embodied care.
Meditation teacher, author, and dharma practitioner
Her work weaves meditation, heart practice, ancestral wisdom, and grounded spiritual resilience.
Researcher and clinician focused on meditation safety
Her work helps teachers understand meditation-related challenges, adverse effects, and safer practice adaptations.
Author and teacher at the intersection of dharma and recovery
His teaching connects mindfulness, recovery, forgiveness, craving, and compassionate honesty in daily life.
For practitioners and teachers
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