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

Ted Andrews is an internationally recognized author, teacher, mystic, and master storyteller in the...

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...

Karen Armstrong is a freelance writer who lives in London. Her bestselling tell-all book Through...

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

Nicolai Bachman has been teaching Sanskrit, ayurveda, chanting, and yoga-related topics for over...

Coleman Barks is a leading scholar and translator of the 13th-century Persian mystic Jelaluddin...

Charlotte Joko Beck teaches Zen to students around the world.She is the founder of the Zen Center...

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...

Gregg Braden is a leading authority on ancient prophecies, sacred sites, and the lost spiritual...

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...

Nancy Connor is the founder of Ringing Rocks Foundation, an organization dedicated to the...

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

Judith Cornell is an internationally acclaimed speaker, seminar and retreat leader, and researcher...

Tenzin Gyatso, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan...

Krishna Das is an internationally acclaimed recording artist and cofounder of the Triloka world...

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

Ram Dass, whose name means Servant of God, was originally known as Richard Alpert. Ram Dass...

Mark Epstein is a psychiatrist in private practice. He is a contributing editor to Tricycle: The...

Don Farber has photographed His Holiness the Dalai Lama for over 25 years. His photographs have...

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

Georg Feuerstein was born in Germany shortly after World War II, and conducted his postgraduate...

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...

Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconoclastic teacher of Kabbalah and evolutionary spirituality. He is...

Gangaji is an American-born spiritual teacher dedicated to sharing the path of freedom through...

Natalie Goldberg is a poet, teacher, writer, and painter. A student of Zen Buddhism for 24 years,...

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

Chloë Goodchild is sought around the world as a teacher, composer, and performer. She is...

Andrew Harvey is a poet, writer, teacher, and mystic. He is a former fellow at All Souls College,...

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...

Sandra Ingerman is a psychotherapist and shamanic practitioner who teaches workshops on shamanism...

Chaitanya Kabir is a unique scholar and devotee whose work bridges mind and heart. He has studied,...

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

Bradford Keeney is an internationally renowned scholar and therapist. He has conducted some of the...

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,...

Vasant Lad is a native of India who has been a practitioner and professor of Ayurvedic medicine for...

Elisabeth Lesser is a cofounder and senior advisor of the Omega Institute—the country's...

Joseph Marshall III is a teacher, historian, Lakota craftsman, and writer. He has authored several...

Stevin McNamara has been playing music since the age of nine and has been recording music for more...

Thomas Merton is renowned as one of the most influential American spiritual writers and social...

Sabrina Mesko, Ph.D. is the author of Healing Mudras: Yoga for Your Hands, and is a lecturer,...

Richard Miller, PhD, is a master of yoga and meditation who holds a doctorate in clinical...

John P. Milton is a pioneering spiritual teacher, meditation master, vision quest leader and...

Robert Moss is a lifelong dream explorer, shamanic teacher, former professor of ancient history 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...

Caroline Myss is the author of four New York Times bestsellers: Anatomy of the Spirit, Sacred...

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

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki is director of The Servants of the Light School in England, and has taught...

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

Oriah Mountain Dreamer was given her name by the Native American elders with whom she studied. A...

Elaine Pagels, Ph.D. is an acclaimed scholar, lecturer, professor of religion at Princeton...

John Perkins has lived and worked with shamans throughout the world since 1968, was awarded the...

Daniel Pinchbeck is an author and journalist whose feature articles have appeared in The New York...

H.W.L Poonja (1910-1997) became a devotee of Sri Ramana Maharshi in 1944. He worked, held satsangs,...

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...

Gary Renard is the best-selling author of The Disappearance of the Universe. He serves on the...

Adam Rhine began his artistic life as a doodler. Choosing to become an artist at age eleven, he...

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...

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...

Jason Shulman is one of the world's leading teachers of personal healing and spiritual...

Through his landmark books and documentary films, Huston Smith has opened the eyes of the world to...

Sobonfu Somé is an author, teacher, and leading authority on African women's spirituality...

Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern Goddess religion and earth-based...

Mirabai Starr teaches philosophy and world religions at the University of New Mexico, and is the...

Brother David Steindl-Rast was born in Vienna, Austria and holds a PhD from the Psychological...

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

Iyanla Vanzant has more than 8 million books in print. She is the author of five New York Times...

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee was born in London in 1953 and has followed the Naqshbandi Sufi path since...

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...

Stephen Wolinsky began his clinical practice in 1974 as a Gestalt and Reichian therapist and...

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

Lee Holden is an internationally known television personality and author who has worked closely...

Nicki Scully has been teaching the shamanic arts and Egyptian mysteries since 1983. She is author...

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....