Gayathri Narayanan

Gayathri Narayanan is the founder of Myndtree, a contemplative community for meditation and the study of classical wisdom. She received her Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification through the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, studying with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. Her decades-long practice is rooted in the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Narayana Guru and her Guru, Nitya Chaitanya Yati, and has been deepened through study and practice in Theravada Buddhism with Gil Fronsdal, Zen with Reb Anderson, and Tibetan Buddhism with Anam Thubten. She has led meditation groups, retreats, and contemplative study programs since 2012 and writes at Myndtree.org