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Robin Moisson: Meditation Teaching, Meaning, and Making a Living
May 6, 2026
1h 04m 51s
Boaz Feldman: Relational Meditation
Dec 2, 2025
1h 00m 59s
Professor Steven Haberlin: Teaching Meditation in Academia
Nov 19, 2025
49m 41s
Learning Meditation: Anusheh. Meditation (Kinda) Resolved My Anxiety.
Jul 11, 2025
59m 29s
Stephen Zerfas: Making the Jhanas Accessible
Jun 27, 2025
53m 29s
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| 5/6/26 | Robin Moisson: Meditation Teaching, Meaning, and Making a Living | In this episode of Teaching Meditation, Upali interviews longtime student-turned-teacher Robin Moisson to explore his journey from an early crisis of meaning in engineering school to intensive retreats in Southeast Asian monasteries, and ultimately back to teaching in the West. They discuss navigating cultural barriers in traditional settings, discovering pragmatic Dharma, and Robin’s path from full-time to part-time teaching as he balances financial reality with practice and teaching. Lear... | 1h 04m 51s | ||||||
| 12/2/25 | Boaz Feldman: Relational Meditation | Upali interviews Boaz about the relational meditation practices he's been doing, including relational qi gong. Their conversation then pivots to the role Boaz sees meditation practice holding in healing and altering societies. Boaz will be speaking at a conference Dec 5 - 7, 2025, and you can find more information at this link. Boaz's newest paper is over here. Support the show | 1h 00m 59s | ||||||
| 11/19/25 | Professor Steven Haberlin: Teaching Meditation in Academia | Professor Steven Haberlin is a professor at the University of Central Florida. In this episode, you'll hear him talk about teaching small amounts of meditation to very large amounts of people. Steven tells us about the benefits of this style of teaching, as well as what risks there are. The episode then focuses on research he's been doing on technological adjuncts to meditation and the use of meditation apps. The research forms part of his new book, Meta-Meditatio... | 49m 41s | ||||||
| 7/11/25 | Learning Meditation: Anusheh. Meditation (Kinda) Resolved My Anxiety. | Upali interviews Anusheh, who began practicing The Mind Illuminated in order to improve her anxiety. While it did help, it was a more convoluted path than she had been expecting. One topic she and Upali talk about is the idea that striving is actually helpful, in that it causes you to burn out enough that you stop doing it, which is the route to good practice. Anusheh also talks about the transition from lusting after enlightenment -- "future happiness" -- with the focusing ... | 59m 29s | ||||||
| 6/27/25 | Stephen Zerfas: Making the Jhanas Accessible | Stephen Zerfas, founder of the Jhana startup Jhourney (get it?), covers a wide range of topics in today's interview. He and Tucker talk about the relationship of the jhanas to the rest of the path, how Stephen has succeeded in getting so much publicity, and how the larger Dharma community has responded to a tech startup teaching meditation retreats. Support the show | 53m 29s | ||||||
| 6/13/25 | Learning Meditation: Yuri. Using Meditation to Cope with War | Upali interviews Yuri, a Ukranian-British meditator. Yuri talks about how difficult his first retreat was, and how permanently his life changed following this. He then goes into how much better he became as a father as a result of his meditation practice. Later, Upali asks Yuri about what it was like when his country was attacked while his family was still there, and what impact his practice had on his ability to cope with this. Support the show | 1h 10m 09s | ||||||
| 5/30/25 | Dr. Tucker Peck: Freedom is the Opposite of Community | Upali interviews Tucker in this episode. In a wide-ranging conversation, they touch on: Many of us look for self esteem to pretty much everyone we meet, or to no one at all, rather than in a sane place.Doing what you'd like to do, and being in community, are opposite stances. How do we balance these?Tucker talks about Sanity & Sainthood, both the name of his book and what he sees as the two goals of dharma practice and psychotherapy. This is distinguished from the point ... | 38m 00s | ||||||
| 5/14/25 | Learning Meditation: Kacee. Dealing with Overwhelm in Meditation | Kacee is the first in a series Upali will do with guests who are longtime students, rather than teachers, of meditation. Kacee talks about a number of changes over her years as a practitioner, including her view of what to do when practice makes you feel worse, her view on integrating parts work into her meditation practice, and she deals with the inner critic. Support the show | 51m 20s | ||||||
| 4/25/25 | North Burn: Spending 20 Years on Retreat | Dharma teacher North Burn has been on a meditation retreat for most of the last twenty years. He teaches a 3-month retreat each spring in California. Tucker talks with North about choosing a monastic life rather than dating, marriage, and a career. North opens up about his relationship with his own teacher, including a period where their relationship was temporarily severed, and what this was like for him. For more information about North, head to https://boundlessness.... | 54m 24s | ||||||
| 3/29/23 | Marianne Bentzen: Intimacy and Playfulness; Trauma and Resource | Marianne Bentzen is a psychotherapist and trainer in neuroaffective development psychology. She is the author of a number of books including Neuroaffective Meditation: A Practical Guide to Lifelong Brain Development, Emotional Growth, and Healing Trauma. Marianne talks about her path to becoming a meditation teacher as a psychotherapist and how to connect with heartfulness and playfulness in teaching. She also defines trauma, explains its parallels with deep meditative state... | 1h 15m 36s | ||||||
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| 3/13/23 | Dr. Daniel Ingram: Managing Controversy in Dharma Circles | Dr. Daniel Ingram is a retired emergency medicine doctor who is the author of two versions of the book Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha. His current projects are the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium and a charity called the Emergence Benefactors. Daniel discusses the way in which he became a dharma teacher, where he actually began by working with the most advanced practitioners, and he discusses a number of areas in which he has "stepped on minefields" and cre... | 57m 27s | ||||||
| 2/6/23 | Julianna Raye: The Unified Mindfulness Teacher Training Program | Guest Julianna Raye joins Tucker to describe the Unified Mindfulness teacher training system. This is the second in our series on some of the larger teacher training programs; Vidyamala Burch's episode was the first. Support the show | 1h 04m 37s | ||||||
| 8/30/22 | Dharma 3.0 and Multiplayer Meditation with Vince Horn | Vince Horn, meditation teacher and co-founder of Buddhist Geeks, talks with Upali about his path of transmission and training in Dharma Teaching. He also explores transparency in Dana, Dharma and Sangha in the world of Web 3.0, and the power of social meditative techniques aka Multiplayer Meditation. Support the show | 59m 51s | ||||||
| 8/9/22 | Shaila Catherine: When Students Get Distracted | Shaila Catherine rejoins us on the program. We discuss several ancient practices, including the asubha practice (sometimes called "foulness of the body") and what the Buddha calls "crushing mind with mind," and how these practices do and don't work for modern students. Shaila also describes her own process for finding a teacher once one is already a teacher. She has just written a new book called Beyond Distraction: Five Practical Ways to Focus the Mind, so our conversation ... | 1h 03m 38s | ||||||
| 4/9/22 | Lopon Chandra Easton: 10 years of Vajrayana Training, and Feeding Your Demons | Lopön Chandra Easton is a Westerner who grew up in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition. She did nine years of preparatory (ngondro) practices and spent 5 - 10 years training to be a teacher. She is a lineage holder under Lama Tsultrim Allione, author of the book Feeding Your Demons. She is currently on the Tara Mandala Board of Directors and the Tara Mandala Bay Area coordinating committee, through which she teaches and organizes events in the Bay Area. To learn abo... | 1h 13m 04s | ||||||
| 3/27/22 | Henrik Norberg: Religious Buddhism, or, Teaching Retreats in Caves | Henrik Norberg is a celibate, non-monastic teacher of meditation retreats, often in caves in Southeast Arizona. Hear him and Upali talk about the difference between Eastern and Western conceptualizations of stream entry, Henrik's view that Western Buddhism hyperfocuses on meditation, and what Henrik's own path looks like, which he said it primarily morality practice. Support the show | 50m 14s | ||||||
| 3/4/22 | Kynan Tan: Success As a New and Fulltime Meditation Teacher | Australian teacher Kynan Tan, PhD only recently began teaching meditation and was quickly able to leave his regular job and become a fulltime teacher. In this interview, you'll hear how he prepared himself to teach, how he gets continuing education and supervision as a new teacher, and what steps he thinks allowed him to attract so many students in a short time. You can learn more about Kynan and contact him at https://kynanmeditation.net/ Support the show | 36m 01s | ||||||
| 2/18/22 | Vidyamala Burch: Growing a Dharma Org Without Losing The Heart | Vidyamala Burch is the founder of Breathworks, has a teacher training program with over 600 alumni, has been teaching mindfulness for pain for many decades, and has been voted one of the most influential disabled people in the United Kingdom. Hear Vidyamala's story of growing up in New Zealand, moving full-time into a retreat center, and starting and steering Breathworks. She'll discuss how to keep the "heart" in an organization as it grows and how to receive feedback on teachers ... | 48m 29s | ||||||
| 2/8/22 | Mukti: Teaching and Embodiment | Mukti is a teacher in a nondual lineage. She received her authorization to teach from Adyashanti, her husband. You can learn more about Mukti over here. Mukti’s teachings invite attunement to the act of being and to the heart of awareness. Such attunement can awaken Spirit to reveal Itself as your essential self and as the essence of all of life. This revelation is known as Self-realization, and is the birth of conscious Spirit made manifest, known as embodiment.Her teaching meth... | 1h 00m 37s | ||||||
| 6/3/21 | Upasaka Upali: I Can't Remember How Many Intro Classes I've Taught | Upali talks about teaching intro courses vs advanced students, coping with the unfairness of the world, working with students' emotional wellbeing, and how to escape Garfunkel syndrome. Upasaka Upali is a Dharma teacher who aims to demystify meditation, provide tangible instruction, and create a rewarding experience for practitioners. Upali received transmission in a lineage that can be traced back to the Buddha through Namgyal Rinpoche (Ananda Bodhi), and he took his Upasaka vows in 2015. H... | 53m 10s | ||||||
| 5/13/21 | Don & Patty: How to Run a Retreat Center | Don and Patty, both dharma teachers, run the Wellbeing Retreat Center in Tazewell, Tennessee. This special episode focuses, rather than on the usual topic of teaching meditation, on how to start and manage a meditation retreat center. Support the show | 55m 39s | ||||||
| 4/27/21 | Shaila Catherine: Teaching Towards Full Liberation | Shaila Catherine is the founder of Insight Meditation South Bay, a meditation group in Silicon Valley, and also Bodhi Courses, an online Buddhist classroom. She has been practicing meditation since 1980, with more than nine years of accumulated silent retreat experience. She has taught since 1996 in the USA, and internationally. She completed a one-year intensive meditation retreat with the focus on concentration and jhana, and authored Focused and Fearless: A Meditator’s Guide to Stat... | 1h 03m 46s | ||||||
| 4/15/21 | Boaz Feldman: Freedom and Fulfillment | Boaz Feldman talks with Upali from a multi-year meditation retreat and shares his personal journey of becoming a monk, returning to lay life, and becoming a psychologist. Boaz and Upali talk about the challenges and benefits of integrating ancient tradition in a modern world, and Boaz presents a framework that formulates that possibilty. To learn more about Boaz, please check out his website: http://boazfeldman.com/, and you can also learn more about Neurosystemics at &... | 1h 04m 39s | ||||||
| 3/29/21 | Dr. Andrew Holecek: Finding Your Niche | Dr. Andrew Holecek covers a lot of ground, from describing finding his niche in sleep and dream meditation, to doing a three-year retreat, and his thoughts on the frequent scandals among dharma teachers. Learn more about Andrew at www.andrewholecek.com. Support the show | 1h 03m 40s | ||||||
| 3/17/21 | Dorothy Hunt: How Do We Teach The Ineffable? | This episode touches on Christian practice, Adyashanti's lineage of Zen, and how to teach meditation from more of a non-doing, already-there perspective, rather than a technique-based one. Dorothy Hunt is the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy, and serves as Spiritual Director and President of Moon Mountain Sangha, Inc., a California non-profit religious corporation. Dorothy currently offers meditation and satsang gatherings, awakening groups, weekend retrea... | 1h 00m 39s | ||||||
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