Meet Our Teachers

Venerable Lhundup Jamyang is passionate about sharing her learned expertise in Tibetan Buddhism with others. She has over 25 years of training and experience in the field, and students commend her engaging and thorough approach to deconstructing intricate teachings.

Rebecca L. Acabchuk, Ph.D. (Becky) has taught mindfulness workshops in a variety of spaces. She aims to promote overall wellbeing through healthy lifestyle and behavior change.

Wellbeing expert and life coach Leena Gupta has over 20 years of experience empowering clients to reach their highest potential. She is passionate about using mindfulness to enhance happiness, performance, and mental clarity.

Spiritual teacher Nithya Shanti is passionate about helping others realize the joy that exists within. Through his work at the Nithya Shanti Foundation, Shanti works to address contemporary issues through spiritual teachings of mindfulness and compassion.

Since taking his monastic vows at the age of 21, Tyagi Shurjo has committed his life to the goal of self-realization. Shurjo serves in joy to spread the message of Paramhansa Yogananda and kriya yoga wherever he goes.

Human-centered designer Jay Vidyarthi focuses on the intersection of mindfulness, design, technology, and ethics. He brings over a decade of meditation practice, in conjunction with his experience as a tech designer, to provide individuals with mindfulness tools that can help optimize their relationship with electronic devices and platforms.

Greta Hill draws from over 10,000 hours of yoga and meditation teacher training to help students reclaim their joy, awaken deep purpose, and cultivate vibrant health through yoga, meditation, and Ayurvedic lifestyle.

Lisa Kring draws from her experience as a licensed clinical social worker with a background in dispute resolution and family court mediation to practice and teach others about mindfulness. She believes self-compassion is a powerful tool to establish deep healing and growth.

Certified yoga and meditation teacher Dr. Aditya Gait has 10 years of experience teaching across three continents. He aims to support the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness needs of institutions and their employees.

Mindfulness Coach Palma Michel helps you unleash the full potential of your mind, allowing you to create a purpose-driven, meaningful, and highly impactful life. Her business combines coaching along with meditative wisdom and techniques to empower CEOs, founders, emerging leaders, and high potentials in a variety of ways.

Miriam Parker offers 10 years of experience as a meditation teacher in variety of professional spaces. With 500 hours of meditation and yoga teacher training, Parker works with individuals to establish a healthier outlook on life, regardless of their external circumstances.

Vishvapani Blomfield believes that mindfulness isn’t just about sitting still and practicing meditation — it’s about bringing a deeper awareness into your whole life. As the director of Mindfulness in Action, Blomfield works towards enlightening individuals on the transformative power of practicing mindfulness in daily life.

A channel for the divine, a messenger, and a guide through transitions, Tatum Barnes facilitates meditations that bring people to the Seat of the Sacred within. Barnes enjoys working with diverse populations, including members of the African Diaspora as they embark on their journey of deep healing.

Sowmya Raoh is a singer and songwriter in the Indian music industry, with a passion for sharing her mindfulness and meditation practices. Raoh's unique approach to meditation speaks to her experience singing and chanting mantra as a child, in addition to her career in the Indian film industry.

A monk in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, karma, Lama Yeshe aims to help as many people as possible through sound therapy, meditation, mindfulness, and emotional counseling sessions. Having studied mindfulness since the age of 19, Yeshe continues to expand on his passion for teaching both in person and virtually.

Yael Shy offers over 10 years of experience as a meditation teacher in addition to 20 years of experience as practitioner in a variety of traditions. She primarily works with parents, in addition to young adults to help navigate their twenties, or better cope with change.

Motivational speaker and educator Curtis Smith has transformed thousands of lives by using music, movement, art and writing to activate the science-based benefits of mindfulness. Now the founder of Moment of Mindfulness, Smith has expanded his portfolio of clients to communities that benefit from culturally responsive mindfulness tools.

In 1996, Alex Maizuss began practicing meditation and yoga to help cope with the daily stress of life and, later, the intense demands of working as a software engineer in the aerospace industry. Today, Alex works as a globally recognized mindfulness intervention expert, teaching individuals and groups in both English and Spanish. She is certified in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Performance Enhancement, Awareness & Knowledge (mPEAK) through the University of San Diego. "Mindfulness can help you recognize unhelpful patterns and create pathways to move ahead while cultivating self-compassion, emotional resilience, and self-awareness." Alex explains, "Learning to be more self-aware through mindfulness allows better focus on personal strengths and better performance in any field, as well as joy and a vivid happier self. " Characterized by her sharp attention, deep curiosity, humble presence, and kind sense of humor, Alex's work as a mindfulness performance coach for the entertainment industry has allowed her to witness firsthand the impact of performance anxiety and stress. Alex was the program manager for USC Center for Mindfulness Science and her meditations are currently featured in MindfulUSC and Mindful Magazine.

A meditation teacher since 2001, Patwant Rhodes offers personalized yogic journeys of self-discovery to connect with one's true nature, potential and purpose. Rhodes began studying Kundalini yoga and meditation after experiencing a personal loss in her twenties.

Earle Birney's approach to meditation is just like him — unpretentious, honest, friendly, curious, and powered by a deep and sincere desire to understand life and happiness in philosophical and practical ways.

David Vago, Ph.D., is on a mission to alleviate suffering and improve wellbeing through investigating connections between the mind, brain, and body. He has over 15 years of experience studying the basic neurobiological mechanisms supporting mind-body practices in relation to wellbeing and over 25 years of formal meditation training.

Kate Savage is a meditation practitioner and teacher in the Theravada tradition. She aims to spread Buddha’s teachings, so they are accessible and understandable to anyone, anywhere. Savage has been actively practicing meditation since 1993 and currently teaches others how to exercise mindfulness.

Jyothi Shyamsunder is a mindfulness, compassion and consciousness practitioner with certifications in presence-oriented psychotherapy and Vipassana meditation.

Meditation teacher, published author, and host of "The Mindful Kind" podcast, Rachael Kable empowers people to manage stress and live more mindfully. Having experienced firsthand the benefits of mindfulness, Kable hopes to help others enhance their wellbeing through the content she shares.

After starting her career as a lawyer in Southern Africa in 1996, Nicolle Kopping-Pavars immigrated to Canada in 2008 with her husband, 1-year-old son and three suitcases. She had to completely rebuild her career in order to become accredited in her new country. She was successful in doing so, but something was missing. “Even though I was doing what I loved and what I believe I was called to do, I started sensing something dark lurking in the depths of my soul and I didn’t like it,” she says. Thus began her personal self-development journey, in which she read a lot, attended mindfulness retreats and workshops, and became a reiki practitioner. Although she was feeling better, she looked around at her colleagues, all of whom were stressed and overwhelmed, and felt she could do something more. From there, Nicolle committed to a yearlong teacher training certification focused on mindfulness in law, and in 2017, she went to Thailand for two weeks to deepen her practice and study with the monks in the northern part of Thailand. She furthered her teacher training by taking an intense teacher training course in the Forest Monk Therevada tradition. Nicolle founded Lotus-Law to introduce meditation, mindfulness and emotional intelligence to the legal profession and to the public at large. In 2020, Nicolle rebranded her practice as the Transformational Lawyer, through which she brings all her disciplines — law, reiki, energy work, crystals and mindfulness — under one umbrella.