Our Guides
Teachers
John Travis, Founding Teacher
John Travis has practiced and taught Insight Meditation for over 40 years. John is the founding teacher of Teton Sangha and guided residential retreats for the community for 25 years. 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.
Susie Harrington, Guiding Teacher
Susie Harrington teaches meditation nationwide and serves many communities in the Southwest near her home in Moab, UT. She has trained in the Insight tradition since 1989, and in 2005 was invited into teaching by Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, and Guy Armstrong. She has also received teachings from many others, including Tory Capron, Adyashanti, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche. She often offers retreats outside, believing nature to be a profound teacher, and a gateway to our true self. Her teaching is deeply grounded in the body and often emphasizes the expression of mindfulness in speech and daily life. She offers a two-year intensive program, Dharma in Daily Life, where she delights in mentoring the innate qualities of heart and wisdom in everyday practice. Her practice is rooted in periods of long retreat both indoors and outdoors, which offer nourishment and inspiration for her teaching. She was an outdoor professional for over 30 years, including years as a river guide, mountaineering guide, and backcountry ranger, and now finds her greatest delight in sharing her love of the dharma and the natural world.
Nancy Taylor
Nancy Taylor has completed a three-year training program to become a Community Dharma Leader at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. Nancy has been teaching Vipassana Meditation in and around Jackson since 2001.
John Kuzloski
John Kuzloski has been an active member of Teton Sangha since 1999 including attending retreats annually with John Travis. More recently, he has been studying the discourses of the Buddha and taken on a teaching role with Teton Sangha at the request of his teacher.
Cathy Shill
Cathy Shill has been studying the dharma since 2008 and attends annual Vipassana retreats with her guiding teacher, John Travis. She is inspired by the impermanence and state of presence emanating from the natural world. She teaches with the blessings of her Teacher and great passion for all beings.
Scott Horn
A 30 year resdient of Jackson Hole, Scott has been on the transformative path now for over 8 years. No longer interested in being more deeply intimate with his own disasters, frailties and afflictions, his teachings invite us to focus on what Christina Feldman describes as a radical change in how we see, how we live, and how we respond to life.