GUEST TEACHERS

Carolyn has been practicing meditation with IMCW since 2006. She is in the foodservice business, and practices painting in oils and watercolors. In 2009, she helped to found Insight on the Inside, training volunteers to teach meditation to incarcerated people, people who have experienced homelessness, and has taught in substance abuse treatment, mental health, and reentry units, and young men 18 to 25.

She graduated from the Meditation Teacher Training Institute in 2013. In 2019 she took the Eight Lifetime Precepts with Bhante Gunaratana and is active in supporting a local Buddhist center, Dassanaya.

Carolyn teaches what the Buddha taught to the best of her understanding. In her classes, time is dedicated to dialogue with participants, with the emphasis on application of the teachings.