Art Jolly

Art Jolly took an introductory meditation course in the early 1990's and sat his first residential retreat in 1995.  Since then, he's sat numerous retreats and participated in Spirit Rock's initial Dedicated Practitioners
Program. In 2003 he spent 5 months as a monk at Pa-Auk Tawya Meditation Centre in Burma under the
guidance of Pa-Auk Sayadaw.  He's currently in Spirit Rock's Community Dharma Leaders program.  He
currently leads his own sitting group in Oakland.

Randy Cherner

Randy Cherner has been a somatic educator and has had a meditation practice for more than 30 years. In 1985 he founded a center for the practice of somatic education in Corte Madera. He is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais practitioner with extensive training in cranial sacral work. Randy holds a black belt in Aikido.

Lisa Dale Miller

Lisa Dale Miller, MFT is a mindfulness-based psychotherapist in private practice in Los Gatos, CA. She is a featured presenter at conferences on the clinical applications of mindfulness meditation, teaches MBSR, MBCT, MBRP (Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for addiction recovery,) and has created MBDBT. She is also an internationally exhibited visual artist. Lisa has been a yogic and vipassana meditation practitioner for more than 30 years. Her web site is www.lisadalemiller.com

Brooke Brown

Brooke A. Brown, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Marin County and San Francisco. She graduated from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, was trained in an integrative approach to wellness, and is certified in EMDR. She began practicing vipassana in 1990 and has been a member of the Marin Sangha since its inception in the early '90s.

Ines Freedman

Ines Freedman has been practicing Buddhist meditation for over 20 years, with Gil Fronsdal being her primary teacher. She is Managing Director of the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City and is currently a participant in the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader Program. She is a retired chiropractor and has a special interest in working with meditation and physical pain.

Dana DePalma

Dana DePalma has practiced Vipassana meditation since 1993, is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership program and is in the joint teacher training program of Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Society. She leads the dharma and meditation part of an ongoing weekly class at Spirit Rock that combines meditation and yoga. She practices as a psychotherapist in San Rafael and is particularly interested in the interface between depth psychotherapy and meditative practices. Currently, she is actively engaged in family practice as the mother of an exuberant toddler.

Ed Brown

Edward Espe Brown is a zen priest and author of The Tassajara Bread Book and Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings. Also a student of Vipassana, yoga, cranio-sacral, handwriting change, and chi gung, as well as a lover of poetry, his teaching style weaves together a multiplicity of strands.

Wendy Palmer

Wendy Palmer has been teaching classes in Conscious Embodiment and Intuition Training for twenty five years and has practiced aikido and meditation for 34 years. She is a sixth degree Black Belt in Aikido and is co-founder and teacher at Aikido of Tamalpais in Mill Valley, California. Wendy is author of The Intuitive Body: Aikido as a Clairsentient Practice (North Atlantic Press, 1994) and The Practice of Freedom: Aikido Principles as a Spiritual Guide (Rodmell Press, 2002).

Pascal Auclair

Pascal Auclair has been immersed in the Dharma since 1997, sitting retreats in Thailand, India and America with revered monastics and lay teachers. He is currently being mentored by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield while working at the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. He has been working with teens for close to a decade now.