Gil Fronsdal

Gil is the primary teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California; he has been teaching since 1990. He has practiced Zen and Vipassana in the U.S. and Asia since 1975. He was a Theravada monk in Burma in 1985, and in 1989 began training with Jack Kornfield to be a Vipassana teacher. He was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and in 1995 received Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. Gil has an undergraduate degree in agriculture from U.C. Davis where he was active in promoting the field of sustainable farming. In 1998 he received a PhD in Religious Studies from Stanford University. Gil teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center where he is part of its Teachers Collective. He is a husband and a father of two boys.

You may listen to Gil's talks at www.audiodharma.org.

Andrea Fella

Andrea Fella has been practicing Insight Meditation since 1996, and, under Gil Fronsdal’s guidance, began teaching meditation classes in 2003. She is particularly drawn to intensive retreat practice, and has done a number of long retreats, both in the U.S. and Burma. During one long practice period in Burma, she ordained as a nun with Sayadaw U Janeka. Andrea teaches residential retreats for IMC, and is in the Spirit Rock teacher training program with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein.

You may listen to Andrea's talks at www.audiodharma.org.

Terry Lesser - Yoga for Meditation

Terry teaches Yoga for Meditation. She has been practicing yoga since 1984, and has been teaching since 1995. She was trained in Iyengar yoga at the Yoga Room’s Advanced Studies/Teacher Training Program in Berkeley. Terry has been practicing Vipassana Meditation since 1992, and is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leader program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Her focus is on the integration of mindfulness meditation and yoga.