Archives: Authors

Roxanne Dault

Roxanne Dault is a guiding teacher at True North Insight (Voie Boréale) in Canada.

Jisho Sara Siebert is a Soto Zen Buddhist priest and teacher at Zen Fields in Ames, Iowa. Led to Buddhism by the suffering she saw in her work to prevent domestic and sexual violence, she found her way to Los Angeles, where she first met her teacher, then to Papua New Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, monasteries in Japan, and Haiti. She now works for Beyond Borders, an organization committed to preventing violence against girls and women and ending child slavery.

Bhikkhu Analayo

Bhikkhu Analayo is a German monk and scholar, ordained in 1995 in Sri Lanka. His books include Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization and Mindfully Facing Climate Change .

Kathleen McDonald

Kathleen McDonald (Sangye Khadro) was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1974. She is the author of Awakening the Kind Heart and How to Meditate.

Pawan Bareja

Pawan Bareja, PhD, is a mindfulness teacher and graduate of the Spirit Rock Teacher Training program. As a trauma resolution practitioner, she works with a diverse population of clients.

Arisika Razak

Arisika Razak RAZAK is Professor Emerita at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where she also served as the director of the Women’s Spirituality MA and PhD program and as Director of Diversity. She has been an inner-city midwife for over two decades, has performed nationally and internationally as a spiritual dancer, and has led embodied healing workshops for over thirty-five years. She teaches at East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland.

Lynette Monteiro

Lynette Monteiro is a clinical psychologist and coauthor of Mindfulness Starts Here: An Eight-Week Guide to Skillful Living. She blogs at <a href="http://www.108zenbooks.com">108zenbooks.com</a>.

Robert Waldinger

Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development. A sensei in Boundless Way Zen, he leads the Henry David Thoreau Sangha.

Annie Obermeyer

Annie Obermeyer loves hazelnuts with chocolate, stock from roasted bones, and Brahms Op.118, A Major.

Rashid Hughes

Rashid Hughes (he/him) is a native of Richmond. He is a proud graduate of the Howard University Department of Music and the Howard University School of Divinity. Rashid is a certified Mindfulness and Yoga Teacher and a Restorative Justice Facilitator in Washington DC. In 2019, Rashid co-founded the <a href="https://www.heartrefugemindfulnesscommunity.org/" rel="noopener">Heart Refuge Mindfulness Community</a>, a Mindfulness Community in Washington, DC that is dedicated to inspiring Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to live with love and courage. In 2020, he was selected to be an Affiliate Teacher for the Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC. and he was also invited to be a teacher of the Presence Collective. In 2021, Rashid created the <a href="https://www.mindful.org/r-e-s-t-a-guided-practice-for-the-tired-and-weary/" rel="noopener">Four Pillars of R.E.S.T.</a>, a non-dual contemplative practice that offers four simple but direct pointers for practitioners to connect with the natural clarity of mind with ease. Rashid’s devotion to truth and compassion leads him to teach faith-based and non-religious audiences, including secular Mindfulness Communities, Buddhist Sanghas, and the Black Church. The teachings of James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane are deep sources of inspiration and hope for Rashid. Rashid is devoted to helping all people achieve fulfillment through radical honesty and self-compassion. You can find more information about Rashid at <a href="http://www.rashidhughes.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.rashidhughes.com</a>