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Eugene Cash is the founding teacher of the San Francisco Insight Meditation Community of San Francisco. He teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and leads intensive meditation retreats internationally. His teaching is influenced by both Burmese and Thai streams of the Theravada tradition as well as Zen and Tibetan Buddhist practice. He is also a teacher of the Diamond Approach, a school of spiritual investigation and self-realization developed by A. H. Almaas.
Pamela Weiss has been practicing Buddhism since 1987, including several years of Zen monastic training. She is currently in teacher training with Jack Kornfield, and is also a student of the Diamond Approach. Pamela is an executive coach who offers mindfulness classes and leadership development programs inside organizations. Her passion is in bringing the richness and depth of Buddhist teachings to the world of work and relationships, as well as articulating a feminine expression of the dharma.
Anushka Fernandopulle has trained in meditation in the Theravada Buddhist tradition for over 20 years in the US and Asia . Other influences have been mystics from various cultures and traditions, creative arts, nature, service work, progressive social change movements, and modern urban life. Anushka teaches retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Insight Meditation Society, and around the country. She has an MBA and also works as an organizational development consultant and executive/life coach. More on her teaching can be found at www.anushkaf.org.
Will Kabat-Zinn has practiced Vipassina meditation intensively in the U.S. and in Burma and currently lives in the San Francisco bay area. Will teaches regularly at IMCSF, Sprit Rock, and The California Institute for Integral Studies and has taught meditation and awareness practices to incarcerated youth since 2001. He is in teacher training with Jack Kornfield. An MFT intern in private practice in San Francisco and Oakland, Will sees individuals and couples for psychotherapy.
Martina Schneider has been a student of the Dharma since 1996. She has studied and practiced Vipassana meditation in the United States, India and Burma, where she was ordained as a nun. Inspired by the teachings of the Buddha she has combined her practice with social engagement and has worked extensively with homeless and underrepresented populations, counseled people who are incarcerated, and volunteered with the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco. Martina is also interested in the combination of mindfulness practices and psychotherapy and uses this approach in her work as a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern in private practice in San Francisco. She is currently in the teacher training program with Jack Kornfield.