Lloyd Burton has been doing meditation practices from the Theravada Buddhist tradition since 1975, and teaching them since 1997 -- principally under the tutelage of senior guiding teachers at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California.  In 2000 he completed the first Community Dharma Leaders training program at Spirit Rock.  His day job is as professor of law and public policy in the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado; and his most recent book is Worship and Wilderness: Culture, Religion, and Law in Public Lands Management (U. of Wisc. Press, 2002).

David Chernikoff began the study and practice of meditation in 1971 and started teaching insight meditation in 1988. He trained as a yoga teacher at the Integral Yoga Institute and completed the Community Dharma Leader program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. His teaching has been influenced by senior teachers from the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock, Tibetan teachers he studied with during a 3-year stay in Nepal, and spiritual guides from other contemplative traditions, most notably Ram Dass, Father Thomas Keating, and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. Currently, David teaches meditation and psychology at Naropa University and has a private practice as a psychotherapist and spiritual counselor in Boulder.