Brock Brown is a founding member and Chair of the Victoria Insight Meditation Society where he teaches and leads meditation retreats. He has been dedicated to the study and practice of the Buddha’s teachings in the Theravada tradition for over 30 years, and is inspired by the Thai Forest tradition. He is a graduate of the Spirit Rock Dedicated Practitioners Program and the Community Dharma Leader Program and completed the Birken Forest Monastery Upasika program. Brock enjoys studying the suttas and making them relevant to our everyday lives.
Kristina Bare is an insight meditation teacher, therapist and Somatic Experiencing practitioner. She has trained primarily in the Burmese lineages of Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw and Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw. She enjoys supporting students in deepening samadhi and insight opening the door to an expansion of the heart and to liberating wisdom. In support of the Buddha’s teachings, Kristina also draws on knowledge from Western psychology and Somatic Experiencing. She invites a kind, patient, and embodied approach as a base for samadhi and insight meditation practices.
Margo McLoughlin has been practicing in the Insight tradition of Theravada Buddhism since 1986. Margo is known for her telling of Jataka tales and in leading meditation retreats and courses on Vancouver Island, the US and Ireland. A former staff member at Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts and a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School, Margo has also completed her training to be a Community Dharma Leader through Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. Her teachers include Joseph Goldstein, Carol Wilson, Thanissara, and Eugene Cash. For more information about Margo, please visit her website at www.margostoryteller.net
Mary-Ann Enthoven is a graduate of the “Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program” which teaches awareness and compassion-based practices by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. Jack and Tara blend western psychology and eastern spiritual practices and have brought their teachings to people around the world.
In addition to the teachings and guidance of Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Pema Chodron, and Oren Jay Sofer, Mary-Ann’s practice has also been deeply influenced by teachers such as, Thich Nhat Hanh, Eckhart Tolle, Satya Narayana Goenka, Donald Rothberg, David Chernikoff, Ronya banks, and Brother David Steindl-Rast.
As a mindfulness meditation teacher, Patricia Galaczy is committed to teaching from her direct experience working with her own mind, accumulated through over 20 years of dedicated daily practice, 40+ long, silent, teacher-led, mindfulness meditation retreats, and a 3-month silent meditation retreat in 2021 with guiding senior teachers Steve Armstrong and Kamala Masters. She is a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Instructor fully certified through The Centre for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society, University of Massachusetts Medical School.