May 5 - 12, 2026
ART OF MEDITATION
GLOBAL SUMMIT
Awaken Presence, Purpose, and Inner Change Through the World’s Great Meditation Traditions
Make meditation more than a moment of calm - let it transform how you you feel, respond, and handle life when it matters most.
Join Jon Kabat-Zinn, Sharon Salzberg, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Kristin Neff, Jack Kornfield, and many others as they share timeless teachings from traditions like Vipassana, Zen, Nondual, Tibetan, Vedic, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.









“Through meditation we can train our minds in such a way that negative qualities are abandoned and positive qualities are generated and enhanced. — Dalai Lama
What You'll Learn:
Explore ancient and modern meditation traditions — and discover how to turn your practice into real-life transformation.
How to move beyond surface-level calm into true presence, purpose, and inner change
Teachings from diverse traditions like Vipassana, Zen, Tibetan, Vedic, Nondual, and MBSR
Ways to deepen your practice and meet daily stress with greater clarity and compassion
Insights from neuroscience and psychology on how meditation reshapes the mind
Wisdom from living masters and modern teachers to help you grow in your unique path
Register Now for Free and Immediately Unlock 4 Powerful Summit Interviews with Gabor Maté, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, & Amishi Jha

10 APA CE Credits for Licensed Clinicians are available for purchase as an add on when you purchase Lifetime Access to this summit or the HMI Summit Membership
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Flexible 24-hour Access
Enjoy all the inspiring expert interviews posted each day of the Summit at your convenience, any time of day, for 24 hours.
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SUMMIT PRESENTERS
70 Expert Meditation Teachers to Guide You

SHARON SALZBERG
Meditation Teacher, Co-Founder of The Insight Meditation Society, & Bestselling Author of 12 Books, Including Real Life, Real Change, and Lovingkindness

YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE
Meditation Master, Spiritual Director of Tergar, & Bestselling Author of Joy of Living

KRISTIN NEFF, PHD
Psychololgist, Co-Developer of Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), & Author of Self-Compassion & Fierce Self-Compassion

JON KABAT-ZINN, PHD
Founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, & Author of 15 Books

JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
Co-Founder of the Insight Meditation Society, Co-Founder of Barre Center for Buddhist studies, & Author of Several Books, Including Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening and A Heart Full of Peace

VEN. PANNAVATI BHIKKHUNI
Founder of Heartwood Refuge, Founder of Correct Cultivation Learning from Buddha Academy Abbot, Spiritual Director, & Teacher

DZOGCHEN PONLOP RINPOCHE
Celebrated Buddhist Teacher, Founder, President, and Spiritual Director of Nalandabodhi, Poet, Photographer, & Author of Several Books, Including Emotional Rescue

ROSHI JAN CHOZEN BAYS
Ordained Zen teacher, Pediatrician, Co-Abbot of Great Vow Zen Monastery, & Author of Several Books, Including How to Train a Wild Elephant and Other Adventures in Mindfulness

SYLVIA BOORSTEIN, PHD
Co-Founding Teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Psychotherapist, & Author of Five Books, Including Pay Attention, For Goodness' Sake

DZIGAR KONGTRUL RINPOCHE
Recognised as an incarnation of Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Founder of Mangala Shri Bhuti Sangha, & Author of Several Books, Including Peaceful Heart: The Buddhist Practice of Patience

TRUDY GOODMAN, PHD
Teacher of Buddhist Meditation, Psychotherapist, Founder of Insight LA, & Co-Founder of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy

REV. MICHAEL BECKWITH
Meditation Teacher, Founder and Spiritual Director of Agape International Spiritual Center, & Author of Spiritual Liberation and Life Visioning

A. H. ALMAAS
Founder of The Diamond Approach Path, Head of the Ridhwan School, & Author of 20 Books, Including Keys to the Enneagram and Nondual Love

ELIZABETH MATTIS NAMGYEL
Buddist Teacher, Founder of The Middle Way Initiative, Founding Member and Teacher in the Wilderness Dharma Movement, & Author of The Power of an Open Question

DAN SIEGEL, MD
UCLA Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Founder of Mindsight Institute, & Bestselling Author of Brainstorm, Mindsight, and Aware

ROSHI PAT ENKYO O'HARA
Soto Zen Priest and Contemporary American Zen Teacher, Founding Teacher of Village Zendo, Professor at New York University, & Author

DIANA WINSTON
Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA, Founding Board Member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, Teacher at Spirit Rock, & Author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering Your Natural Awareness

TSOKNYI RINPOCHE
Buddhist Teacher, President of the Pundarika Foundation, & Author of 3 Books, Including Open Heart ,Open Mind, Fearless Simplicity, and Carefree Dignity

RUTH KING
Meditation Teacher, Heart Activist, Founder of Mindful of Race Institute, & Author of Mindful of Race and Healing Rage

TENZIN ROBERT THURMAN, PHD
First Endowed Chair in Buddhist Studies in the West, Co-Founder and President of The Tibet House, Professor, Leading American Expert on Tibetan Buddhism, & One of TIME Magazine's 25 Most Influential Americans

RUPERT SPIRA
International Speaker and Teacher of Non-Duality & Author of You Are the Happiness You Seek: Uncovering the Awareness of Being

ROSHI MELISSA BLACKER
Sōtō Zen priest, Resident Teacher at Boundless Way Zen Temple, Previous Director of Programs at the Center for Mindfulness, & Writer

RICK HANSON, PHD
Psychologist, Senior Fellow of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, & NY Times Bestselling Author of Six Books, Including Buddha’s Brain, Resilient, and NeuroDharma

RHONDA MAGEE, JD
Professor of Law, Mindfulness Teacher, Social Justice Advocate, & Author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice

KRISHNA DAS
Spiritual Teacher, Kirtan Vocalist and Musician, & Grammy Nominated Recording Artist

DEBRA PONEMAN
Founder and President of Yes to Success, Meditation Teacher, Award-Winning Keynote Speaker, & Bestselling Author

SWAMI SADYOJATHAH JI
Founder and Director of Sri Sri College of Ayurvedic Science and Research, International Director of Art Of Living, & Senior Faculty of the Art of Living Programmes

CYNTHIA BOURGEAULT
Episcopal Priest, Retreat Leader, Wisdom Teacher, Faculty Member Emeritus of the Center for Action and Contemplation, & Author of 12+ Books

KAIRA JEWEL LINGO
Mindfulness Teacher, Educator, & Author of We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons in Moving Through Change, Loss and Disruption

THOMAS HÜBL, PHD
Teacher, Founder of Academy of Inner Science, & Author of Attuned and Healing Collective Trauma

AMODA MAA
Spiritual Teacher Dedicated to Inner Transformation & Author of Embodied Enlightenment and Falling Open in a World Falling Apart

ZOKETSU NORMAN FISCHER
Founder and Spiritual Director of the Everyday Zen Foundation, Poet, & Zen Buddhist Priest

JUD BREWER, MD, PHD
Professor at Brown University, CMO at Sharecare, & Author of Unwinding Anxiety and The Craving Mind

ROSHI DIANE MUSHO HAMILTON
Zen Teacher, Professional Mediator, Founder of Two Arrows Zen, & Author of Everything is Workable and The Zen of You and Me

LARRY WARD, PHD
Co-Founder of the Lotus Institute, Previous Senior Teacher in Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village, & Author of America's Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal

CAVERLY MORGAN
Founder of Non-Profit Peace in Schools, Spiritual Teacher, Speaker, & Author of The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together and A Kids Book About Mindfulness

LAMA SHENPEN HOOKHAM
Founder of the Awakened Heart Sangha, Scholar, Practitioner, & Teacher of Tibetan Buddhism

ROSHI DENNIS GENPO MERZEL
Founder and Spiritual Leader of Kanzeon Big Mind Sangha, Founder of the Los Angeles Zen Center, & Developer of the Big Mind Process

RABBI DOROTHY RICHMAN
Rabbi of Makor Or: Jewish Meditation, Rabbi Emerita at Congregation Beth Sholom in San Francisco, Teacher at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, Soulful Leader, & Musician

RICHARD DAVIDSON, PHD
Neuroscientist, Founder and Director of the Center for Healthy Minds, & Author of Altered Traits and Emotional Life of Your Brain

DAWSON CHURCH, PHD
Award-Winning Science Writer, Pioneering Researcher in Energy Psychology, & Bestselling Author of Bliss Brain

SHAYKHA FARIHA FATIMA AL-JERRAHI
Spiritual Guide of the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order, & Leader of Spiritual and Educational Meetings for Dervishes in 16 Circles Around the World

TONY NADER, MD, PHD
Medical Doctor, Neuroscientist, Global Head of the Transcendental Meditation Organization, & Bestselling Author of One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness

ELENA BROWER
Host of the Practice You Podcast, Poet, Artist, Yoga and Meditation Teacher, & Bestselling Author of Practice You

ISAAC ELIAZ, MD
Pioneer in Integrative Medicine Practice and Research, Founder of the Amitabha Medical Clinic and Healing Center, & Bestselling Author of The Survival Paradox

CHRISTOPHER GERMER, PHD
Harvard Psychologist, Co-Developer of Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), & Author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion

DAEESS 1DREA PENNINGTON WASIO, MD
Integrative Physician, Trauma Expert, Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Facilitator, & Author of Top Ten Traits of Highly Resilient People

SAKI SANTORELLI, EDD, MA
Educator, Meditation Guide, Pioneer in Integrating Meditation and Mindfulness into Medicine and Health Care, & Author of Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine

JOHN VERVAEKE, PHD
Cognitive Scientist, Buddhist Psychologist, Tai Chi and Meditation Teacher, Co-Author of Zombies in Western Culture: A 21st Century Crisis, & Creator of the YouTube series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

ELIZABETH CALLAHAN
Tibetan Translator and Teacher in the Kagyu Tradition, Director of Marpa Foundation, & Tsadra Foundation Fellow since 2002

RONALD SIEGEL, PSYD
Psychology Professor, Clinician, Educator, & Author of The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems and The Extraordinary Gift of Being Ordinary: Finding Happiness Right Where You Are

PETER RUSSELL, PHD
Leading Thinker on Consciousness and Contemporary Spirituality, Meditation Teacher, & Author of Twelve Books, Including Waking Up in Time and Forgiving Humanity

GROVER GENRO GAUNTT ROSHI
Dharma Successor of Bernie Glassman, Co-Founder of the Zen Peacemaker Order, Leader of the Hudson River Zen Center, & Co-Leader of the Annual ZPI Bearing Witness Retreats

MANDAR APTE
Former Executive Dutch Shell Oil, Meditation Teacher, & Director of Cities4Peace

CRAIG HAMILTON
Creator of Integral Enlightenment, Pioneering Spiritual Teacher, & Leading Voice in the Movement for Conscious Evolution

TOBY SOLA
Founder of BrightMinds, Senior Meditation Teacher, & Award-Winning Designer

DAVE VAGO, PHD
Associate Professor, Director of Neurosciences & Communications for the International Society for Contemplative Research, & Research Lead for RoundGlass

RABBI JEFF ROTH
Teacher of Jewish Heartfulness/Mindfulness Meditation, Director of P’na Ori, Co-Founder of Elat Chayyim Jewish Spiritual Retreat Center, & Author of Me, Myself, & God

REV. MICHAEL CHRISTIE, PHD
Certified Mindfulness Instructor, Founder of Project Impact Global, Entrepreneur, & Chaplain Supervisor for Department of Corrections

LOCH KELLY, MDiv, LCSW
Meditation Teacher, Psychotherapist, Creator of the Mindful Glimpses App, & Author of Several Books, Including The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life

TIM KELLY
Meditation Teacher, Oblate, Social Justice Coordinator with the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM), & Board Member of John Main Center

SISTER DR. JENNA
Spiritual Mentor, Author, Radio and TV Personality, Founder of the Brahma Kumaris Meditation Museum, & Host of the Syndicated Show, America Meditating

GIL FRONSDAL, PHD
Guiding Teacher for Insight Meditation Center and Insight Retreat Center & Teacher in the Insight Meditation Lineage of Theravada Buddhism and Japanese Soto Zen.

SARA LAZAR, PHD
Associate Professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, & Board Member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy

ROLA HALLAM, MD
Founder of CanDo, Award-Winning Doctor, Trauma-Informed Coach, Activist, International Speaker, & Entrepreneur

MINGTONG GU
Founder of The Chi Center, Wisdom Healing Qigong Master, Author of Wisdom Healing Qigong, Leader in Self-Healing & Vitality

JAY VIDYARTHI
Founder of Still Ape, Author of Reclaim Your Mind, Pioneer in Mindful Technology & Human Flourishing

PUJYA SADHVI BHAGAWATI SARASWATI (SADHVIJI)
Spiritual Leader at Parmarth Niketan, Secretary-General of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, President of the Divine Shakti Foundation, Author of Hollywood to the Himalayas

AUSTIN MAO
Cofounder of Ceremonia, Creator of the Modern Enlightenment Framework, Guide for Leaders in Psychedelic Healing & Transformation

HOST-SPEAKER: FLEET MAULL, PHD
Dharma Teacher, Executive Coach, Social Entrepreneur, Founder of Heart Mind Institute and Prison Mindfulness Institute, & Author of Radical Responsibility and Dharma in Hell

CO-HOST: GITA VAID, MD
Psychiatrist Practicing Ketamine-Assisted Therapy, Co-Founder of the Center for Natural Intelligence, & Director of Psychedelic Awareness at The Chopra Foundation

CO-HOST: STEPHANIE JOHNSTON
Director of Practice Instructors and Senior Teacher for Nalandabodhi International & Faculty Member of Nitartha Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies

CO-HOST: RONALD SIEGEL, PSYD
Psychology Professor, Clinician, Educator, & Author of The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

CO-HOST: JIL AMADIO
Meditation Teacher, Conscious Marketer, Documentary Writer, Producer & Founder of The Intelligent Heart Collective/Hildebrand Films

CO-HOST: KATE EMMETT
Meditation Teacher, Former Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Masters in Organisational Psychology, & Soon-to-Be Founder of "With Kindness, Kate"

CO-HOST: JESSICA HORNSTEIN
Educator, Transformational Coach, & Creator and Host of the No, Not Crazy Podcast
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