Spirit Rock Meditation Center

[7] In 1986, after ten years at IMS, Kornfield moved to Northern California with his family[6] and began hosting a Monday night meditation class in a private home in San Anselmo.

[14] The teachings at Spirit Rock focus on the practice of vipassanā meditation as taught in the Theravada tradition, emphasizing mindfulness and lovingkindness.

[15] Retreats are modeled on those held for lay people in the Thai Forest Tradition and the Burmese vipassanā movement, including sitting and walking meditation, meetings with the teachers and the observation of silence by practitioners.

Visiting teachers have included the 14th Dalai Lama,[4] Thích Nhất Hạnh,[16] [[]], Preah Maha Ghosananda,[4] Anagarika Munindra, Kalu Rinpoche, Ram Dass,[15] Pema Chödrön, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Huston Smith,[4] Adyashanti, Tara Brach, Alice Walker, Zoketsu Norman Fischer and others.

[7] A volunteer Board of Directors, composed of teachers and community members, is the central decision-making body for Spirit Rock.

Current Spirit Rock teachers include Ajahn Amaro, Ayya Anandabodhi; Sally Armstrong; Guy Armstrong; James Baraz; Sylvia Boorstein; Eugene Cash; Debra Chamberlin-Taylor; Howard Cohn; Mark Coleman; Dana DePalma; Anna Douglas; Andrea Fella; Anushka Fernandopulle; Gil Fronsdal; Robert Hall; Will Kabat-Zinn; Jack Kornfield; Phillip Moffitt; Mary Grace Orr; Sharda Rogell; Donald Rothberg; Tempel Smith; John Travis; Spring Washam; Julie Wester; Diana Winston.

Spirit Rock trained a new group of teachers who graduated in September 2020 including: Alisa Dennis, Amana Bremby Johnson, Cara Lai Fitz Gibbon, Carol Cano, Dawn Mauricio, Gulwinder Singh, James Lowe, JD Doyle, Jeff Haozous, Kaira Lingo, Kate Johnson, Katy Wiss, Konda Mason, Leslie Booker, Louije Kim, Noliwe Alexander, Pawan Bareja, Rachel Lewis, Solwazi Johnson, Teresa Abdala-Romano, and Victoria Cary.