Amma Thanasanti
Amma Thanasanti is a California native, born into a Jewish family with her roots from Poland and Russia. In 1979, at the age of seventeen, Amma was dedicated to a spiritual life, Theravada insight and loving kindness practices. She envisioned living her life as a nun....
Amita Schmidt
Amita began meditating in 1984 in Seattle. She left the Seattle area to deepen her practice by attending a series of three-month retreats at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, MA. After many years of intensive practice, she was asked to co-lead her first...
Tina Rasmussen, Ph.D.
Tina’s warm style, bright clarity and supportive presence helps students recognize their deeper nature, both on the cushion and in daily life. She has a decades-long commitment to cultivating her own and others’ deep spiritual unfoldment while functioning in an...