Archives: Authors

Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche is the spiritual guide of Shyalpa Monastery in Kathmandu, the founder of the Tibetan Refugee Children’s Fund, and the head of Rangrig Yeshe, a nonprofit that organizes teachings and retreats throughout the United States.

Elaine Smookler

Elaine Smookler is a comedic performer and playwright, and the director of communications for the Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto.

Subha Srinivasan

Subha Srinivasan says her spiritual practice has been the core of her life for the past few years. Subha lives in New Hampshire with her husband, Abhi, and daughter, Anjali. You can read more from her at her <a href="https://shub50.wordpress.com/">blog</a>.

Charlotte Bell

Charlotte Bell began practicing yoga in 1982. Following a 1989 trip to Pune, India, she received teacher certification from B. K. S. Iyengar. A lifelong musician, she plays oboe and English horn with the Salt Lake Symphony and performs with Scherzando Winds, blue haiku and Red Rock Rondo. She lives in Salt Lake City. For more information about her yoga classes and workshops, visit www.charlottebellyoga.com.

David Dae An Rynick, Roshi

David Dae An Rynick, Roshi is Abbott of the Boundless Way Zen Temple, author of This Truth Never Fails: A Zen Memoir in Four Parts, and a Life and Leadership Coach. He lives, practices and teaches with his wife, Melissa Myozen Blacker, Roshi in Worcester, MA.

Brian Otto Kimmel

Brian works with individuals and groups seeking an integrative, embodied approach to contemplative practice in daily life. He has published several articles and is in the process of writing a book on mindfulness and healing from sexual abuse. He recently submitted for publication a collection of wisdom poems on being single and queer. He earned his BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Naropa University in 2012 with a concentration in Contemplative Psychology, Religion and Performing Arts. His final thesis was titled: Healing Gender Wounds through Dancing Like Men. Brian is a non-monastic member of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing since 2006. He regularly facilitates retreats, offers speakerships, mentors, and guides practice communities in his tradition and beyond. As a performance artist, he is developing an intimate knowing through body-mind research.

Brandon Rennels

Brandon graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in business and psychology, and spent his first two years after graduation working as a management consultant in Dubai. He worked on strategy & operations projects across the Middle East, Europe and Africa, developing a skill-set for how to effectively implement new concepts across diverse cultures. Brandon then relocated to the US to continue working as a Senior Consultant out of Chicago, IL. While he enjoyed the problem-solving nature of the work, he felt he should be serving a different client; it was people, not corporations, that he wanted to see grow. Recently, Brandon has been applying his business background to the mindfulness field by supporting two education initiatives commissioned by Thich Nhat Hanh. He lives in Escondido, California. You can read more of his writings at www.brandonrennels.com.

Scott Mitchell

Scott Mitchell is the Rev. Yoshitaka Tamai Professor of Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley and the author of Buddhism in America: Global Religion, Local Context.

Jenna Hollenstein

Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RDN, is a nutrition therapist, speaker, and best-selling author of Eat to Love, Intuitive Eating for Life, and Mommysattva. She is passionate about helping busy people incorporate mindfulness into nutrition and life. Contact Jenna at <a href="https://www.jennahollenstein.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jennahollenstein.com&source=gmail&ust=1717700274400000&usg=AOvVaw1kT0Xi6u5656tc6obizb8z">www.jennahollenstein.com</a>

Emily Strasser

Emily Strasser has spent time living and studying Buddhism in Dharamsala, India. A writer and traveler, she is rooted for the moment in New York City, where she writes and edits The Pushcart Journal and serves on the editorial board for the PEN America Journal.

Sarah Maynard

Sarah Maynard is a clinical psychologist living in Kent, UK. She has been practicing within the Triratna Buddhist community for the past year and a half.

Angela Gunn

Angela Gunn is a freelance writer and television/film producer in Atlanta. Just yesterday, she completed a year-long Buddhist blogging experiment in which she listened to a Zencast podcast (IMC) daily, related the teaching to her life, and then wrote about it every day. This experience has been the inspiration for her first novel, which she plans to complete this year, as well as for an ebook that will be published later this year. Angela has always been a Buddhist, but only realized it a few years ago. She has been practicing seriously, with an online and physical sangha, for the last two years.

Bodhipaksa

Bodhipaksa is a Buddhist teacher and writer. He is the founder of <a href="https://www.wildmind.org/" rel="noopener">Wildmind.org</a> and runs <a href="http://www.fakebuddhaquotes.com/" rel="noopener">FakeBuddhaQuotes.com</a>. His forthcoming book I Can’t Believe It’s Not Buddha! will be published by Parallax Press in the fall of 2018.

Sarah Jackson

Sarah Jackson is an award winning writer, producer, and creative director in television marketing and production. She began her career at Comedy Central as an assistant to the and grew into one of the key members of the network’s branding team as a writer, producer, and director. Sarah left Comedy Central in 2010, but is still happy to work with them on a freelance basis as a writer, producer, and brand consultant to the network’s international partners. Her client list has expanded to include IFC, BBC America, Food Network, Nickelodeon, and MTV Latin America. Outside of television, Sarah produces original content for her site, sarahcentric.com. Through essays, photography, and video, Sarah presents her take on family, cultural identity, travel, and personal growth. Sarah lives in Brooklyn, NY but secretly thinks of Sydney, Australia as her ancestral homeland.

Rebecca Jamieson

Rebecca Jamieson grew up in the Driftless region of Southwest Wisconsin and moved to Portland, Oregon in her mid-twenties. She was drawn to Buddhism through the writing of Natalie Goldberg and the influence of a creative writing teacher who incorporated meditation into her classes. Rebecca's poetry and lyric essays have appeared in Stirring, &review, r(evolve), Cup of Poems, and the Wisconsin Poets' Calendar.

Karuna Cayton

Karuna Cayton, psychotherapist and author of The Misleading Mind, spent twelve years working with Tibetan refugees in Nepal and studying with Buddhist masters. His Karuna Group practice applies Buddhist psychology to individual and organizational clients. He lives in Northern California. Visit him online at www.thekarunagroup.com.

Stillman Brown

Stillman Brown lives in Brooklyn, NY, and says about himself: "I was born & raised in the Midwest, moved east for college. I studied literature and then worked as a paralegal, photographer, nanny, hiking bum, and now in television. I love my communities in New York, Buddhist and otherwise. Without them, the city would've eaten me long ago."

Jacey Tramutt

Jacey Tramutt is a psychotherapist in Golden, CO that helps people struggling with anxiety get confident and back to living the life they love. She offers equine facilitated psychotherapy to clients that are interested in cultivating self-awareness through being in relationship with horses. Besides her work, Jacey is passionate about maintaining old-school family values in a high-tech world and passing those along to her twenty-month-old son. For more information about Jacey, please visit: www.cultivateconfidence.com.

Greg Sumner

Greg Sumner is a member of the Still Point Temple Detroit sangha. He is the author of Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut’s Life and Novels (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011).