Tara Brach

GROWING AUDIENCE IN NEW FORMATS: Tara Brach's increasing popular podcast is downloaded well over a million times a month, and is consistently featured in "best of" lists. She is reaching an audience unfamiliar with the books that first made her visible but who have embraced easy-to-implement and empowering mindfulness techniques.

ACCESSIBLE AND RELEVANT: Brach channels big ideas about mindfulness, meditation, emotional healing, and spiritual awakening into immediately accessible advice. In the past year alone her work has been featured in The New York Times health supplement; the talk she gave to the New York Times staff was streamed on Facebook; a featured interview on meditation and stress appeared in The Washington Post; another Washington Post piece featured Tara on post-election emotions; and a recent Huffington Post piece from Tara talks about how to transform election angst into healing practices.

EXPERT IN HER FIELD: For over a decade, Tara Brach has been one of the most recognizable and renown mindfulness teachers, blending Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices. She regularly conducts trainings at the Harvard Medical School, for members of the US Congress, and at the Smithsonian. Last year Tara delivered a keynote address at Dreamforce, the largest tech conference world-wide. She has collaborated with Wisdom Labs videos on a mindfulness practice especially designed for the workplace-a 40-day, 15-minute-a-day course-which was first offered in December 2016; clients presently include Starbucks, Facebook, and Ford. Tara Brach is the senior teacher and founder of Insight Meditation Center of Washington, DC, one of the largest and most dynamic meditation centers in the US.