About the Teachers
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James Baraz, MA
James Baraz is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center. James started the Community Dharma Leader program, the Kalyana Mitta Network, the Spirit Rock Family Program and helped create the Heavenly Messengers Training Program. James has been leading the online course Awakening Joy since 2003. He serves as a guiding teacher to One Earth […]
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Rhonda Varette Magee, MA, JD
Rhonda V. Magee, M.A., J.D., is Professor of Law (Emeritus) at the University of San Francisco, where she has taught Torts, Insurance Law, Race in American Legal History, and a course she co-created called Contemplative Lawyering. She is the author of the The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through […]
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Mark Coleman, MA
Mark has trained extensively in the Buddhist tradition, both in the Insight meditation and in the Dzogchen tradition. He is a senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and has taught insight meditation retreats since 1997. Mark is a life-long nature lover and is passionate about guiding people into the beauty of meditation and nature. […]
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Kristin Barker
Kristin Barker is co-founder and director of One Earth Sangha. She is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leader program and teaches with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (DC). Kristin serves on the advisory boards of Project Inside Out and the Buddhist-Catholic Dialogue on Climate Change.
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Lyla June, PhD
Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) is a poet, singer-songwriter, hip-hop artist, human ecologist, public speaker and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective and ecological healing. Her messages focus on Indigenous issues and solutions, supporting youth, inter-cultural […]
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