Teaching Meditation

Monica Antunes: Borrowed Confidence

Send us Fan Mail In this conversation with Upali, Monica Anutes traces the path from her first day-long sit to teaching in Rob Burbea's lineage.  They then land on

Monica Heiser: Mindfulness in Daily Life

Send us Fan Mail Upali interviews Monica Heiser, a teacher in the insight lineage Mindfulness in Daily Life (MIDL).  Monica is one of the few guests we've had on th

Lysha Smith: Teaching Goenka's Vipassana

Send us Fan Mail Lysha Smith is a senior teacher in the lineage of SN Goenka, running the Dhamma Dhara center in Massachusetts.  The conversation touches on a number of

George Haas: Developing Secure Attachment

Send us Fan Mail Meditation teacher and attachment theory expert George Haas talks about the effects of insecure attachment, as well as how combining meditation with oth

Leigh Brasington: In Search of a Successor

Send us Fan Mail Leigh tells us the story of how he became a jhana teacher, and we learn the thrilling story of the life of Ayya Khema, his teacher.  He tells us about j

Robin Moisson: Meditation Teaching, Meaning, and Making a Living

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Teaching Meditation, Upali interviews longtime student-turned-teacher Robin Moisson to explore his journey from an early crisis of me

Boaz Feldman: Relational Meditation

Send us Fan Mail Upali interviews Boaz about the relational meditation practices he's been doing, including relational qi gong.  Their conversation then pivots to t

Professor Steven Haberlin: Teaching Meditation in Academia

Send us Fan Mail Professor Steven Haberlin is a professor at the University of Central Florida.  In this episode, you'll hear him talk about teaching small amounts

Learning Meditation: Anusheh. Meditation (Kinda) Resolved My Anxiety.

Send us Fan Mail Upali interviews Anusheh, who began practicing The Mind Illuminated in order to improve her anxiety.  While it did help, it was a more convoluted path t

Stephen Zerfas: Making the Jhanas Accessible

Send us Fan Mail Stephen Zerfas, founder of the Jhana startup Jhourney (get it?), covers a wide range of topics in today's interview.  He and Tucker talk about the

Learning Meditation: Yuri. Using Meditation to Cope with War

Send us Fan Mail Upali interviews Yuri, a Ukranian-British meditator.  Yuri talks about how difficult his first retreat was, and how permanently his life changed followi

Dr. Tucker Peck: Freedom is the Opposite of Community

Send us Fan Mail Upali interviews Tucker in this episode.  In a wide-ranging conversation, they touch on: Many of us look for self esteem to pretty much everyone we mee

Learning Meditation: Kacee. Dealing with Overwhelm in Meditation

Send us Fan Mail Kacee is the first in a series Upali will do with guests who are longtime students, rather than teachers, of meditation.  Kacee talks about a number of

North Burn: Spending 20 Years on Retreat

Send us Fan Mail Dharma teacher North Burn has been on a meditation retreat for most of the last twenty years.  He teaches a 3-month retreat each spring in California. 

Marianne Bentzen: Intimacy and Playfulness; Trauma and Resource

Send us Fan Mail Marianne Bentzen is a psychotherapist and trainer in neuroaffective development psychology.  She is the author of a number of books including Neuroaffec

Dr. Daniel Ingram: Managing Controversy in Dharma Circles

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Daniel Ingram is a retired emergency medicine doctor who is the author of two versions of the book Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha.   His

Julianna Raye: The Unified Mindfulness Teacher Training Program

Send us Fan Mail Guest Julianna Raye joins Tucker to describe the Unified Mindfulness teacher training system.  This is the second in our series on some of the larger te

Dharma 3.0 and Multiplayer Meditation with Vince Horn

Send us Fan Mail Vince Horn, meditation teacher and co-founder of Buddhist Geeks, talks with Upali about his path of transmission and training in Dharma Teaching.  He al

Shaila Catherine: When Students Get Distracted

Send us Fan Mail Shaila Catherine rejoins us on the program.  We discuss several ancient practices, including the asubha practice (sometimes called "foulness of the body

Lopon Chandra Easton: 10 years of Vajrayana Training, and Feeding Your Demons

Send us Fan Mail Lopön Chandra Easton is a Westerner who grew up in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition.  She did nine years of preparatory (ngondro) practices and spent 5