Teachers

John Travis has practiced and taught Insight Meditation for over 40 years. John is the founding teacher of Teton Sangha and guides the Fall residential retreats. Additionally, he is a Spirit Rock Teacher Emeritus, and the founder of Mountain Stream Meditation Center in Nevada City, CA. He completed a four-year senior teacher training with Jack Kornfield in 1993 and lived and studied in Asia for a decade under several great meditation masters, including S.N. Goenka, and Anagarika Munindra. He took a period of monastic ordination in the Theravada tradition under Thanpulu Sayadaw, as well as a brief novice ordination under Kalu Rinpoche. John’s teaching style focuses on a non-dual approach emphasizing body, heartfulness, and the nature of awareness itself. You can find more information on John Travis here.