Teachers · The Field
Guest teachers
We bring practitioners to The Field who can expose students to a range of lineages, traditions, and therapeutic models — each one chosen because it encourages open, noninterpretive experience and an unsentimental kindness. The roster changes as the work does; every teacher holds an accountable relationship to what they pass on.
Guest teachers
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Kelly Boys
Yoga Nidra · NSDR
Has co-designed and delivered mindfulness and resilience programs at the UN, Google, and San Quentin State Prison. She specializes in mindfulness-based yoga nidra; her voice can be found on the Oura Ring, Mindfulness.com, and Simple Habit.
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Lopön Chandra Easton
Tibetan Buddhism · translation
A Dharma teacher, author, and translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts who has taught Buddhism and Hatha Yoga since 2001. She works to bring forth the empowered feminine in Buddhism and develops curricula for Tara Mandala Retreat Center.
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Bruce Tift
Psychotherapy · Vajrayana
In private practice since 1979 and a teacher at Naropa University for twenty-five years. A practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism for more than forty years and a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, he works at the seam of Western psychology and contemplative practice.
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Andrew Holecek
Dream yoga · dark retreat
An author and scholar-practitioner whose work bridges dream yoga, dark retreat, and the art of dying with contemporary neuroscience. Resident Contemplative Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies and author of nine books.
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Jonny Miller
Nervous system · resilience
Helps founders and leaders cultivate calm and rewire their stress response. His course, Nervous System Mastery, pairs evidence-backed protocols with practical, accessible techniques to build resilience and aliveness.
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Michael Taft
Tantric view · open awareness
From Zen temples in Japan to yogi caves in India, Michael has meditated for over thirty-five years across Buddhist and Hindu Tantric practices. Co-founder of the Alembic center in Berkeley, he teaches the Tantric view of open mind and unconditional kindness.
About The Field
The Field teaches Tibetan Buddhist contemplative practices to Western practitioners. The work pulls together three approaches that usually stay siloed — psychological understanding, staying embodied, and the recognition of fundamental awareness.
Our guest teachers are chosen for the same reason we teach the way we do: each brings a living, accountable relationship to a lineage, tradition, or therapeutic model — and the willingness to make it usable inside a contemporary life.