Linda Graham, M.F.T., has a full-time private psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and leads trainings nationwide on the emerging integration of relational psychology, mindfulness and neuroscience. She is the author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience (New World Library, 2013) and publishes a monthly e-newsletter Healing and Awakening into Aliveness and Wholeness, archived on her website.
Liz Powell has been practicing Vipassana meditation since 2004. Liz takes joy in teaching IMC's Eightfold Path Program online, the weekday Happy Hour brahmavihara practice, and the Thursday night online sitting, as well as classes in Mindfulness and other dharma fundamentals. She loves teaching retreats as well as sitting them. A 2025 graduate of the IMC (Insight Meditation Center) Dharma Teacher Training with Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella, as well as their Dharma Mentoring and Local Dharma Leadership Programs (a total of 8 years of formal training), Liz also completed the Dedicated Practitioners and Advanced Practitioners Programs at Spirit Rock. She co-led programs at IMC for children, families and parents for a decade, as well as offering Introduction to Meditation, half-day and daylong retreats for adults. For a number of years she served as IMC Board President and then Managing Director of the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, California.
Marcy Reynolds, BA is a longtime practitioner of Qigong and Vipassana meditation. She currently teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at El Camino Hospital, and Qigong Movement at Insight Santa Cruz and other places in the Monterey and San Francisco bay areas.
Margarita Loinaz, M.D. has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1977 in the Tibetan and Theravada traditions with an emphasis on Dzogchen practice for the past 10 years. She is a graduate of the first Community Dharma Leader's program at SRMC where she contributed to the initial stages of the diversity program and taught at the first POC retreat. She also trained in MBSR at the UMass Stress Reduction Clinic and is a student of the Diamond Approach. She is originally from Dominican Republic.
Marisa Handler has practiced Insight Meditation in retreats and daily life for 16 years, and is a writer, singer-songwriter, teacher, and coach. She has taught writing as a tool for healing chronic physical and mental illness, and for deepening our experience of awakening, and has published her writing on her own journey through the dark night. She is the author of the memoir, Loyal to the Sky, which won a Nautilus Gold Award for world-changing books, and her essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared in numerous publications. She teaches Creative Writing at Mills College and Stanford University and workshops at Esalen and CIIS. She is also a committed practitioner of Byron Katie’s The Work, Authentic Movement, and Biodanza.
