Meet Our Dharma Teachers
Speakers
George Haas
George moved to Los Angeles from New York in 1992 to pursue a career in film and photography, while also beginning his practice of Vipassanā at Ordinary Dharma in Venice. He studied under Shinzen Young starting in 1998 and became a senior facilitator at Vipassanā Support International. George began teaching meditation in 2000, founded Mettagroup in 2003, and taught at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society from 2007 to 2016. In addition to his daily meditation practice and one-on-one student sessions, he offers classes, intensives, and retreats nationwide. An accomplished artist, his works are in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, MoMA, the Library of Congress, and the American Irish Historical Society
Eileen Ybarra
Eileen Ybarra began studying Theravadan Buddhism and started a mindfulness meditation practice in 2004. Since 2004, she has studied with a variety of Buddhist and mindfulness meditation teachers through the Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, InsightLA, Insight Meditation Center of Redwood City, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Her profession is public librarianship, a meaningful practice of service and mindfulness, for which she is grateful.
Currently, Eileen is a Buddhist mindfulness meditation teacher for InsightLA and the Insight Meditation Community of the Desert. She has completed two 1-year-long meditation facilitator training programs with the Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. She has also completed the Dedicated Practitioners Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
Website: Mettagroup
Lee Coleman
Lee Coleman is a meditation facilitator who loves integrating research on the psychology of mindfulness into his practices to make them as practical and as useful as possible. In 2015 he obtained a certificate in Mindfulness Facilitation from UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, and he’s a member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. He’s a secular Buddhist who teaches from a secular perspective.
When he’s not geeking out about psychology or mindfulness, he’s probably in the pit at the closest metal concert.