AudioDharma Speakers
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Tony Bernhard | TONY BERNHARD is a Buddhist chaplain and teacher. He hosts study groups in Davis and has been teaching regularly for dharma groups around the bay area and central valley for over 25 years. Until the pandemic, he worked as a mental health counselor and chaplain for inmates at Folsom Prison and spent over 20 years with the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies coordinating continuing education programs for graduates of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma... |
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Trent Walker | Trent Walker researches and teaches about Southeast Asian Buddhism, literature, and music. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies and a lecturer in Religious Studies at Stanford University. Trent received a BA in Religious Studies from Stanford and a PhD in Buddhist Studies from UC Berkeley, where his dissertation focused on Cambodian chanting manuscripts. For more about Trent and to hear audio recordings... |
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Tuere Sala | Tuere Sala is a Guiding Teacher at Seattle Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Retreat Center. She is a retired prosecuting attorney who has practiced Vipassana meditation for over 30 years. Tuere is committed to lay practice and inspired by bringing the Dharma to nontraditional places. She is a strong advocate for practitioners living with high stress, past trauma and difficulties sitting still. Tuere has been teaching since 2010... |
| Vanessa Able | Koji Vanessa Able is a priest and retreat leader at Kannon Do Zen Center in Mountain View and a Chaplain Resident undergoing Clinical Pastoral training at Stanford Healthcare. She is a former student of the 2019-20 Sati Center Chaplaincy Training Course and continues to work as a faculty assistant for the program. Her service experience has included jail and hospice work. Vanessa is the founder and editor of the online journal for spiritual... | |
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Venerable Pannavati | Venerable Dr. Pannavati, a yogini, former Christian pastor, founding Co-Abbot of Embracing Simplicity Hermitage, and a founding director of Sisters of Compassionate Wisdom (a 21st century trans-lineage Buddhist order), ordained in Theravada and Chan Schools, a Zen Dharma Holder and Vajrayana practitioner as well, Ven. Pannavati’s insight is rich with compassion, wit and humor. Known for her ordination of Thai and Cambodian nuns, work with... |
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Victor Medina | Victor was on the IMC board of directors and was Audiodharma Manager, and taught beginning Meditation. Victor was introduced to the dharma as a teenager and continued his spiritual path with Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella as his primary teachers. Victor was a householder with three children, a spouse of over 30 years and a retired product manager. He worked for a number of software firms in Silicon Valley. Victor had a degree in Music and... |
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Vinny Ferraro | Vinny Ferraro has been practicing meditation since 1993. In 1998, he spent a year sitting bedside with the dying through the Zen Center Hospice Program in San Francisco, as well as experiencing 'A Year to Live' practice (based on the book by Stephen Levine). He has studied with several renowned spiritual teachers including the Dalai Lama. In 2001, Vinny trained to lead Challenge Days in schools throughout the U.S. and has become an integral... |
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Walt Opie | Walt Opie was introduced to the dharma in 1993 and began attending regular insight meditation retreats in 2005, which he says greatly reduced his suffering. He is a graduate of the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leaders program and the Sati Center Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program. Walt has led sitting groups for people in recovery since 2011. He has served as a volunteer Buddhist teacher with Buddhist Pathways Prison Project for over four... |
| Wendy Lo, 劳颖昆 | Wendy Lo, 劳颖昆 grew up in the United States as a Chinese immigrant. She came to meditation as a health seeker and became drawn to integrate practice into daily living. She has been practicing insight meditation since 2014 and currently serves on the IMC board. | |
| Wes Nisker | Wes `Scoop’ Nisker is a teacher of Buddhist meditation, an author, radio commentator, and performer. His books include the bestselling classic Essential Crazy Wisdom; The Big Bang, The Buddha, and the Baby Boom; Buddha’s Nature; and his latest, Crazy Wisdom Saves the World Again! Wes is also the founder and co-editor of the international Buddhist journal “Inquiring Mind.” He is an affiliate teacher at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in... | |
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Will Kabat-Zinn | Will Kabat-Zinn has practiced Vipassana meditation intensively in the U.S. and in Burma. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and teaches regularly at SF Insight, Spirit Rock and California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS). For the past eight years Will has taught meditation and awareness practices to incarcerated youth, first in New York City and currently in Alameda County. As an MFT Intern in private practice in San... |
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Yasmina Porter | Yasmina Porter has been practicing mindfulness meditation since 2002 at which time she was certified at Dominican Hospital to teach Mindfulness-based Prenatal and Postpartum Yoga. In 2013, after a decade of practice and annual residential retreats with Bob Stahl, Jon Kabot-Zinn, and Mary Grace Orr, Yasmina was authorized to teach Mindfulness-based stress reduction through UMass Memorial Health Care Center for Mindfulness. She has taught MBSR... |
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Ying Chen, 陈颖 | Ying Chen is a first generation Chinese immigrant. She took refuge to become a buddhist with Venerable Ji Ru in 1995. She was exposed to Chinese Mahayana Buddhism after coming to US first. Later she was drawn to the Theravada tradition and since 2005 she has been practicing primarily in Insight Meditation Center. Ying is a graduate of the Sati Center Chaplaincy program and Local Dharma Leader program from Insight Meditation Center. She also... |