Adyashanti began teaching in 1996 after a series of transformative spiritual awakenings, at the...

Tsultrim Allione, M.A. is an author, teacher, and founder of the Tara Mandala retreat center....

Angeles Arrien is a teacher, author, and cultural anthropologist. She received her master's degree...

Nguyen Anh-Huong is one of the first students ordained as a dharma teacher by Thich Nhat Hanh. She...

Arjuna Ardagh is the founder of the Living Essence Foundation in Nevada City, California, a...

Thomas Ashley-Farrand is one of the West's foremost authorities on Vedic and Buddhist Sanskrit...

Tessa Bielecki is Mother Abbess of the Spiritual Life Institute, a Carmelite community with...

Murray Bodo, O.F.M is a Franciscan priest, associate professor, and writer-in-residence at Thomas...

Sylvia Boorstein is an author, grandmother, a cofounding teacher of the Spirit Rock Meditation...

Joan Borysenko, PhD, is a cancer cell biologist, a licensed psychologist, and a yoga and meditation...

Cynthia Bourgealt is the principal teacher and advisor to the Contemplative Society. A retreat and...

Tara Brach has been practicing and teaching meditation since 1975 and leads Buddhist meditation...

Ani Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. She attended...

Ken Cohen, M.A. (www.kennethcohen.com), is a renowned qigong master, health educator, and winner of...

Rabbi David A. Cooper has been called one of today's leading teachers of Jewish meditation.He...

Stephen Cope is a psychotherapist who studies the relationship between Westernpsychology and the...

Lama Surya Das is one of the most learned and highly trained American-born lamas in the Tibetan...

Peter Fenner, PH.D. studied as a monk for nine years with many notable Buddhist lamas, including...

James Finley left home at the age of 18 for the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, Kentucky, where...

Rabbi Tirzah Firestone is an author and founding rabbi of the Jewish Renewal Community of Boulder,...

Matthew Fox is a teacher, writer, and theologian who has helped spark the spiritual revolution in...

Richard Freeman has studied and lived for nearly nine years in India and Asia, and is an avid...

Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and lovingkindness meditation retreats worldwide since...

Daniel Goleman, PhD, covered the brain and behavioral sciences at the New York Times for 12 years....

Gay Hendricks received his Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford in 1974, and taught in the School of...

Siobhán Houston, EdD, is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and holds a Doctor of Education...

Cheri Huber is the founder of Mountain View Zen Center and the Zen Monastery Practice Center, both...

Father Thomas Keating draws from over 60 years of study and prayer as a Trappist monk in sharing...

Neil Douglas-Klotz is an independent scholar of religious studies, spirituality, and psychology. He...

Jack Kornfield, PhD, trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India and has taught...

Jakusho Kwong was born in Santa Rosa in 1935 and began studying Zen with Shunryu Suzuki-roshi,...

Linda Lantieri is an internationally known expert in social and emotional learning, conflict...

Ondrea Levine has counseled the dying and their loved ones for more than 30 years, and has been a...

Stephen Levine is a poet and teacher of guided meditation healing techniques. He and his wife and...

Wayne Muller has dedicated his life to the service of others, having spent the last 20 years...

Susan Muto, Ph.D. is an author, teacher, and leading scholar of the literature of spirituality. She...

Thich Nhat Hanh is a Zen master in the Vietnamese tradition, scholar, poet, and peace activist. He...

Maoshing Ni, Ph.D., D.O.M., ABAAHP is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. He is cofounder of...

John O'Donohue (1956-2008) In early January 2008, the Sounds True family was deeply saddened...

Reginald A. Ray, Ph.D. brings us four decades of study and intensive meditation practice within the...

Layne Redmond is an acclaimed drummer, composer, author, mythologist, and a lifelong student of...

Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk and has authored several books, including The Monk and the...

Sogyal Rinpoche was born in Tibet, and trained by several revered masters of traditional Tibetan...

Peter Russell earned his master's degree in computer science form Cambridge University, and...

Fr. Thomas Ryan, CSP, a catholic priest and certified Kripalu yoga teacher, coordinates ecumenical...

Sharon Salzberg, a student of Buddhism since 1971, has been leading meditation retreats worldwide...

Daniela Schenker has been a student of Asian traditions for more than twenty years, and has...

Daniel J. Siegel, MD, currently serves as the director of the Mindsight Institute and co-director...

Mark Thornton is the world's first executive meditation coach. Trained as an investment banker,...

Robert Thurman currently teaches at Columbia University and holds the first endowed chair in...

Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1983, Alice Walker is recognized...

Alan Watts was born in London, studied with D.T. Suzuki and Christmas Humphreys, and later moved to...

Dr. Andrew Weil is a clinical professor of internal medicine and director of the Program in...

Shinzen Young is the founder of the Vipassana Support Institute and many other meditation centers...

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D is the founder and director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University...

Kim Eng is a counselor and spiritual teacher whose “Presence Through Movement” workshops...

Bodhipaksa was born Graeme Stephen in Scotland, and currently lives and teaches in New Hampshire....

Rick Hanson, PhD, is a neuropsychologist and cofounder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience...

Carl Honoré is an award-winning journalist, author,and rehabilitated “speedaholic.”...

Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D.,is author of Return to the Sacred and spiritual program director for the...

Richard Mendius, MD, is a neurologist and co-founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience...

Father Carl Arico is a founding member and the current vice president of Contemplative Outreach,...

Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler is a founding member and current president of Contemplative Outreach, Ltd....