Archives: Authors

Michael Carroll

Michael Carroll is a teacher in the Kagyu-Nyingma school of Vajrayana Buddhism and author of Mindful Leadership Training.

Bethany Saltman lives in the Catskills with her family and practices at Zen Mountain Monastery. Her poems can be seen in many national journals, and her non-fiction can be found in magazines such as Parents, The Sun, Body + Soul, Clean Eating, and Geez. You can read more of her work at <a href="http://www.bethanysaltman.com">bethanysaltman.com</a>.

Bethany Saltzman

Bethany Saltman lives in the Catskills with her family and practices at Zen Mountain Monastery. Her poems can be seen in many national journals, and her non-fiction can be found in magazines such as Parents, The Sun, Body + Soul, Clean Eating, and Geez. You can read more of her work at <a href="www.bethanysaltman.com">www.bethanysaltman.com</a>.

Kate Wheeler

Kate Wheeler is a teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and the author of When Mountains Walked.

Joan Halifax

Joan Halifax is the abbot and head teacher of Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her most recent book Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet explores how we can face the challenges we are facing in our current fraught political climate.

Michael Jerryson

Michael Jerryson is the author of Buddhist Warfare and Buddhist Fury: Religion and Violence in Southern Thailand and an associate professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University in Ohio.

Michael Jerryson

Michael Jerryson is the author of Buddhist Warfare and Buddhist Fury: Religion and Violence in Southern Thailand and an associate professor of Religious Studies at Youngstown State University in Ohio.

Leigh Brasington

Leigh Brasington studied with the late Ayya Khema, who authorized him to teach retreats on the jhanas; he was also empowered to teach by Jack Kornfield. His is the author of Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas (Shambhala, October 2015), and editor of The Path to Peace: A Buddhist Guide to Cultivating Loving-Kindness (Shambhala, July 2022).

Ken Jones

Ken Jones was Welsh Buddhist activist, poet. He was an important voice in socially engaged Buddhism and was the founder and later president of the UK Network of Engaged Buddhists and a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. He died on August 2, 2015.

Cyndi Lee

Founder of the world-renowned OM yoga Center in NYC (1998-2012), Cyndi is known for her contemplative classes and soulful teachings. She is the author of 5 books, including Yoga Body, Buddha Mind: A Complete Manual for Physical and Spiritual Well-Being and the New York Times critically acclaimed May I Be Happy: A Memoir of Love, Yoga, and Changing My Mind. In 2019 she launched a new online course, "Taking Refuge In Your Body," available from learn.lionsroar.com.