James Baraz has been teaching Insight Meditation (Vipassana) since 1978. He is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center. James started the Community Dharma Leader program, the Kalyana Mitta Network, and is teacher-advisor to the Spirit Rock Family and Teen program. He’s been teaching the popular online Awakening Joy course (www.awakeningjoy.info) since 2003. James is co-author with Shoshana Alexander of Awakening Joy due in 2010 (Bantam), which is based on the course.

James leads ongoing meditation and Awakening Joy classes in Berkeley. For more information, visit www.insightberkeley.org. For audio recordings of his talks, visit DharmaSeed.org.