Linda Rose began meditating forty-five years ago and was introduced to Insight Meditation twenty years later, while she lived in San Francisco. During that time she attended classes and residential retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and became an active member of Mission Dharma, in San Francisco’s Mission District, under the guidance of Howard Cohn. She is a retired clinical social worker and psychotherapist, as well as a dance-movement therapist. She was a professional touring dancer with Wallflower Order Dance Collective in her twenties.

Linda has lived in Eugene since 2014 and helped to found Eugene Insight Meditation Community. Howie Cohn encouraged Linda to begin teaching the dharma shortly after. In 2019 she began Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leader program (cancelled due to Covid) and has since continued to study and practice during the pandemic with dharma practitioners and teachers in the U.S. and abroad. She continues to be mentored by Howard Cohn and is currently the Guiding Teacher of River Wisdom Insight Meditation Community.

As a former Oncology Nurse, a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness coach, and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction facilitator, Amy helps people lead healthier, happier, more fulfilling lives. Her expertise is the impact of stress and anxiety on the body-mind system. She brings the neuroscience of mindfulness integrated with the coaching process to trainings that range from individuals, small groups to organizational teams.  She integrates didactic teaching, neuroscience, interactive processes, coaching conversations, open dialogue, journal writing, dyad (paired) inquiry, and mindful movement to help people increase self-awareness, and accept accountability from which to set personal goals. During group sessions, Amy places a high value on what the group can achieve together while supporting the diversity of those in attendance.

First and foremost, she loves being with people in the middle of their lives, listening, holding space and supporting safety for life to unfold as it surely does -opening to Grace that is always here. She is passionate about helping people connect their heart to their health.

Kate’s formal meditation study began in 1993 at Ordinary Dharma of Venice, CA in the Zen lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh. Over the years, she has explored many meditation traditions and modalities. In 2017 and 2018 respectively, Kate graduated mindfulness teacher trainings through Mindful Schools and InsightLA, and she became a Certified Mindfulness Teacher-Professional through the International Mindfulness Teachers Association in 2019. Other trainings and dharma study include Eco Sattva, White Awake, UCLA MARC’s trauma-sensitive First Do No Harm Meditation Safety Training, InsightLA’s Dedicated to the Dharma study, Dharma and Art: A Whole-Life Path at the Barre Center for Buddhist Study, and Dharma Here and Now, a 15-month training with meditation teacher Dave Smith.