James Baraz is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center. James has been leading the online course Awakening Joy since 2003. He serves as an advisor to One Earth Sangha, a website devoted to Buddhist responses to Climate Change. His books include Awakening Joy and Awakening Joy for Kids. For more information, visit www.awakeningjoy.info.
Teja Bell (Fudo Myoo Roshi) is a lineage Dharma teacher and Rinzai Zen master, the 85th ancestor of the lineage of Lin-Chi I-Chuan. He teaches Dharma and Qigong as embodied mindfulness through integrating somatic skills with meditation practices and has taught over 150 retreats at Spirit Rock since 1999. For more information, please visit http://www.qigongdharma.com/
Eve Decker is a graduate of the Path of Engagement and Community Dharma Leader programs at Spirit Rock. Eve is also an accomplished musician, releasing five CDs with her band Rebecca Riots and three CDs of original dharma music. She leads "Sit and Sing Sanghas" and teaches a popular class series in Berkeley on Lovingkindness and Forgiveness. For more on Eve, visit her website at www.evedecker.com.
Kritee Kanko is a climate scientist, Zen priest, educator & founding dharma teacher of Boundless in Motion. She is committed to bringing dharma to young adults, permaculture communities, LGBTQ, black, indigenous and other people of color. She is a sensei in the Rinzai Zen ineage of Cold Mountain, and a co-founder of Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. For more info visit www.boundlessinmotion.org.
Donald Rothberg, PhD is a Spirit Rock teacher who writes and teaches classes, groups and retreats on meditation, daily life practice, spirituality and psychology, and socially engaged Buddhism. He is the author of The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World For more information visit www.donaldrothberg.com.
Thanissara is an Anglo-Irish teacher from London who spent 12 years as a Buddhist nun. With Kittisaro, she co-founded Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat in South Africa and Sacred Mountain Sangha, CA. She is the author of Time To Stand Up, A Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth, and is co-author with Kittisaro of Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Journey to Engaged Buddhism
Marin Sangha is a mindfulness meditation (vipassana) group in Marin County that puts special emphasis on living the dharma in daily life. Regular meeting times are Sundays at 6pm. The evening's agenda typically includes guided meditations, mindful movement or walking meditation, and insightful talks that draw upon various aspects of the Buddha's teachings. Marin Sangha’s principal guiding teacher is Donald Rothberg, and the Sangha hosts many other teachers as well from a variety diverse backgrounds and disciplines. Learn more at MarinSangha.org.