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Lion’s Roar Live Events
Featuring monthly resident teachers offering live online teachings, inspiring dialogues, and weekly guided meditations to help you stay grounded, consistent, and connected.
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This month’s resident teacher
Jenna Hollenstein
Jenna Hollenstein is a meditation teacher, registered dietitian, and unapologetic lover of horror movies. Her work lives at the intersection of Buddhist practice, neuroscience, eating disorder recovery, feminism, and the quiet conviction that our bodies are not obstacles to awakening—they’re where awakening happens.
Her teaching is infused with scientific evidence, fierce compassion, intersectionality, and an unconventional curiosity about the places we usually avoid. Whether she’s talking about mindfulness, body image, gender, menopause, drag culture, addiction recovery, motherhood, or the latest folk horror film, Jenna is interested in what these seemingly unrelated worlds reveal about being fully human.
Sober since 2007, mother to a spirited eleven-year-old, and devoted steward to a rotating cast of orange cats, Jenna has learned that wisdom rarely arrives fully formed. More often, it shows up in grief, laughter, discomfort, relationship, and the everyday miracle of inhabiting a body.
Although she has practiced Buddhism for many years, Jenna still considers herself a beginner. That orientation—one of curiosity over certainty—is at the heart of her teaching. She believes each person possesses an innate embodied wisdom that cannot be replaced by experts, algorithms, or self-improvement projects. She sees her role not as providing answers so much as to helping to create the conditions in which people can hear themselves more clearly.
When she’s not teaching or writing, she’s probably swimming, watching psychological horror, reading something that blurs the line between spirituality and feminism, or wondering what her cats understand that the rest of us don’t.
Weekly Live Meditations
Join Jenna on Wednesdays for weekly live meditations, open to all.
Live talk + Q&A: “Nourishing Ourselves in an Age of Overwhelm: Finding Our Way Home in a Disembodied Culture”
Plus, for Lion’s Roar members: Jenna will share a live dharma talk together on how we can take care of ourselves and our bodies in times of overwhelm. Expect guided meditation, honest conversation, and practices you can carry straight into the next conversation that matters to you.
Upcoming Live Events
Free Live Meditation
Join resident teacher Jenna Hollenstein for weekly live guided meditations.
every Wednesday
8:30am PT / 11:30Am ET
September 2026
Nourishing Ourselves in an Age of Overwhelm
With Jenna Hollenstein
THURSDAY, September 24, 2026
8:00PM ET / 5:00PM PT
LOOKING AHEAD
Upcoming Resident Teachers
October 2026 • Diana Winston
November 2026 • Holly Gayley
December 2026 • Peace Twesigye
October 2026
OCTOBER’s resident teacher
Diana Winston
Diana Winston is the director of UCLA Mindful, the mindfulness education center of UCLA Health, and the author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering Your Natural Awareness. She has taught mindfulness since 1993 in a variety of settings including hospitals, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and schools in the US and Asia. During her 17-year tenure at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, Diana developed the evidence-based Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPS) curriculum and the Training in Mindfulness Facilitation program which trained more than 500 mindfulness teachers worldwide. She is a founding board member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.
Her work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, O Magazine, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Women’s Health, and in a variety of magazines, books, and journals. She is also the author of Wide Awake: A Buddhist Guide for Teens, Glimpses of Being, and the co-author, with Susan Smalley PhD, of Fully Present: The Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness, and has published numerous articles on mindfulness.
Diana is a member of the Teacher’s Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California where she was trained to teach by Jack Kornfield. She has been practicing mindfulness meditation since 1989, including a year as a Buddhist nun in Burma.
Weekly Live Meditations
Join Diana on Wednesdays in October for weekly live meditations, open to all. Together, we’ll explore many ways to be mindful across what Diana calls “The Spectrum of Awareness Practices.” Drawing from her book The Little Book of Being, we’ll start with Focused Awareness — calming and concentrating our mind, move through Investigative and Open Awareness, where we explore thoughts and emotions and end with Natural Awareness, the boundless, spacious, awareness of awareness itself.
Live talk + Q&A: “Expand your Mindfulness: From Focused to Spacious Awareness”
Plus, for Lion’s Roar members: Diana will share a live dharma talk, “Expand your Mindfulness: From Focused to Spacious Awareness”on Thursday, October 22.
Past Dharma Talk Recordings
Monthly live talks and all past talk recordings are available to Lion’s Roar members.
