Teachers and Staff
Matthew Daniell (Guiding Teacher) has been practicing Buddhist meditation and yoga for over 20 years. He studied Zen in Japan and Insight Meditation in India, Burma, Thailand, and the United States. His teachers include Munindra, Dipa Ma, Larry Rosenberg, Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, and Jack Kornfield. He has been trained to teach yoga in the tradition of T.K.V. Desikachar of Madras, India, and other styles. Matthew resides in West Newbury and is the primary teacher at IMCN. He also teaches at various retreat centers including the Omega Institute and the Philadelphia Meditation Center, the Insight Meditation Society, Kripalu, and CIMC. He teaches experiential Buddhism at the Tufts University Summer School; and, as part of the Religious Services Department at Phillips Exeter Academy, he leads meditation groups for students and faculty.
Lila Kate Wheeler (Guest Teacher) has been practicing yoga and meditation since her early teens. She began formal Buddhist practice in 1977. In the late 1980s she was briefly ordained as a nun in Rangoon, Myanmar and has been teaching retreats since the early 1990s. More recently she has assisted Sharon Salzberg at Loving-Kindness retreats at Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA. She lives in Somerville and is an accomplished writer of fiction, travel journalism, and personal essays.
Chas DiCapua (Guest Teacher) started practicing meditation in the Soto Zen tradition in 1989. He sat his first Vipassana retreat at IMS in 1995. Since then he has practiced in the Theravada tradition in both the US and Asia. A recent graduate of the Spirit Rock/IMS Teacher Training Program, Chas is currently the Resident Teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. He also teaches regularly at sitting groups and centers around the country. Chas is interested in how the basic material of our everyday lives, including relationships, can be used as a vehicle for awakening.
Larry Rosenberg (Co-Founder) has been practicing Zen and Insight Meditation for over 30 years. He is the founder and a guiding teacher at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society, and author of Breath by Breath and Living in the Light of Death.
Instructors
Ted Jones (Sangha member) has been practicing Insight Meditation since 1978, when he began sitting with his principal teacher, Larry Rosenberg. Ted's emphasis in practice is on the integration of mindful awareness and the activities of daily life. He has had a 40 year professional career in the treatment of mental illness and addictions.
Jim Austin received his initial yoga teacher training at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Heath in 2004. His teaching style is influenced by combining aspects of Yin and Vini yoga. He has been trained at the Center for Mindfulness at UMass to lead Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction groups, which include meditation and yoga. He has had a long-term personal practice in both disciplines, and explores the connections between them at the blog: Yogadhamma.org.
Chris Crotty practices and teaches hatha yoga with an emphasis on mindfulness as a foundation for awareness and overall wellness. He is an adjunct instructor in alternative medicine at Johnson State College focusing on contemplative practice and the human relationship to nature in health and wellbeing. Chris is certified in Trauma Sensitive yoga and is staff yoga teacher at the Trauma Center in Brookline and is on the teacher training staff at Pavones Yoga Center in Costa Rica. Chris has practiced meditation since 1998.
Teachers Teaching At Other Locations
Matthew will be teaching at the following venues away from IMCN:
Omega, Rhinebeck, NY
April 27 - 29, 2012: Insight Meditation for Beginners: Developing a Calm and Clear Mind
Kripalu, Stockbridge, MA
February 26 - March 1, 2012: Insight Meditation and Mindfulness Yoga: A Wholistic Approach to Awakening
The Director of IMCN is Nancy Morrison. Nancy has worked in administrative and managerial positions for non-profit organizations including Audubon Expedition Institute and Maine Businesses for Social Responsibility. Before coming to IMCN, she worked for the Timberland Company on their Corporate Social Responsibility team. She completed her M.Div. degree from Boston University in 1998. Nancy has been practicing meditation for ten years, many of them with sitting groups in mid-coast Maine.
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A dedicated team of volunteers support the day-to-day activities of the center. Pictured below, from left to right, are former Director Maria Van Dusen, Malaika Tabor, Valerie Haase and Ellen Forbes. Special thanks also to Sheila Kelley (not pictured.)
The Insight Meditation Center of Newburyport was founded by Jacalyn Bennett, Matthew Daniell and Larry Rosenberg
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