by staff2080 | Apr 4, 2026
Wynn Fricke has been practicing Insight Meditation since 1993 in her home sangha of Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is co-founder of Common Ground with her spouse Mark Nunberg, and continues her work there as a dharma teacher. Wynn has...
by staff2080 | Feb 28, 2026
I’ve been walking this path since 1994, when I began studying with my first teacher, NDR*, who guided me for seven years through weekly phone calls and retreats at his farmhouse in upstate New York. In 2001, I discovered there were monasteries in the United...
by staff2080 | Feb 28, 2026
I first encountered meditation in 2000, as a college sophomore longing for a deeper way to meet life. Since then, I’ve spent over six cumulative years in meditation retreat in both the Insight and Vajrayana traditions, studying closely with teachers such as...
by staff2080 | Sep 29, 2025
David Sudar has spent over three years on insight meditation retreats, including a 21-month retreat in Myanmar with his core teacher, Sayadaw U Tejaniya. During that period, he was also ordained as a Buddhist monk. Since 2018, he has been mentored by Vipassanā teacher...
by staff2080 | Aug 31, 2025
Greg Scharf began meditating in 1992 at retreats taught by senior teachers from the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Drawn to practice and travel in Asia, he developed a long-term relationship with practice and service in Burma (Myanmar),...
