Hugh Byrne, is a guiding teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. - IMCW has practiced meditation for 30 years and taught #mindfulness #meditation since 2000. He teaches meditation and works with people to cultivate mindfulness in daily life, using an approach that is deeply informed by #family and #culture, #humanrights, and #socialjustice.

He completed a four-year teacher-training program with Jack Kornfield and other senior teachers at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California and the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. Hugh teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and completed a three-year training in Somatic experiencing®, a mind-body approach to healing trauma.

Having earned a law degree from University of London and a PhD from UCLA, he has worked extensively in the fields of human rights and social justice and leads mindfulness-based resilience trainings for humanitarian aid workers through the Garrison Institute.

Hugh is author of The Here-and-Now Habit and teaches classes and retreats in the United States and internationally.