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In college, I observed autopsies at the morgue in New York City during a death and dying course. I started my career at a cancer hospital caring for patients with brain tumors at the age of 20. My Nursing career continued into critical care where I met patients and families that often avoided discussions about end of life wishes. Patients and family members were often left with confusion and guilt when decisions needed to be made. I’ve learned a lot from the many opportunities of being with people when they were dying. I slowly became comfortable with the uncomfortable. I began to see this time as a sacred privilege and the benefits flowed over into my personal life. I saw my own mortality reflected in my patients and it shifted how I valued my experiences outside of work. Eventually, death wasn't so scary and it became a companion that walked beside me encouraging me to say yes to opportunities that fell outside my comfort zone. 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She started her Buddhist studies while practicing in a Tibetan tradition where she also took on leadership and teaching roles. She has been practicing in the Insight Meditation tradition for almost 20 years during which time she has attended over 25 residential retreats, including long retreat, and completed Spirit Rock's two-year Community Dharma Leader program in 2017. She has been mentored by Howie Cohn for over a decade. During her career as a manager at Kaiser Permanente, she served as the Mindfulness Leader for the San Francisco Medical Center. In that role she wrote a weekly newsletter, led two lunchtime sits a week, and offered a number of Lunch and Learn lectures on mindfulness topics. In 2019, she completed the Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher Training and has incorporated the concepts into many of her teachings. Upon retiring from Kaiser in 2022, she began mentoring with Banyan, an online mindfulness meditation community. In 2016, Mary, along with her Community Dharma Leader colleagues, Ashley Sharp and Thomas Davis IV, started Insight Richmond to offer the practices and teachings of the Western Theravada/Insight Meditation. While both Ashley and Thomas have moved onto other dharma adventures, Mary has continued to lead the group. Mary Davis has also served as the President of the Mission Dharma Board for the past five years, having served on the Board since its inception in 2016. In addition, Mary has led a number of introductory courses, as well as sat in for Howie on Tuesday nights. She was also one of the facilitators for the Eight-Month Investigating our Whiteness program in 2020/2021 In addition, she is a regular guest teacher at the Alameda Sangha, as well as the SF Sangha. Mary's greatest joy is building communities where people can deepen their meditation practice as well as feel safe and seen. She brings authenticity, humor and compassion to her dharma offerings. She is available for one-on-one mentoring. If interested, please contact her here. https://www.insightrichmond.org/offerings/may272026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c1a7bb1bd8f479334a1920/2a7e1b64-8af5-4597-a427-8e9f62f81228/Saraswati-Pottekkatt.+2+2.jpg Offerings - Wednesday Night Sangha - About Saraswati Pottekkatt I am training to be a Board Certified Buddhist Chaplain and am trained in multiple trauma-informed somatic modalities, including Somatic Experiencing®. My personal, spiritual goal is complete spiritual liberation while being in solidarity with all who work toward decolonization. I am deeply attuned to my connection with the earth, the source of all my spiritual energy. Ritual, arts, myths, storytelling, and folklore are central to my personal and relational practice. https://www.saraswatisomatics.com/ https://www.insightrichmond.org/offerings/november182026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c1a7bb1bd8f479334a1920/549e3025-e368-4203-aa44-a948e145c255/20250428_114450.jpg Offerings - Wednesday Night Sangha From their own direct experience, Desto shares how dharma and practice continually lead to less suffering and more wellbeing. https://www.insightrichmond.org/offerings/september92026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c1a7bb1bd8f479334a1920/549e3025-e368-4203-aa44-a948e145c255/20250428_114450.jpg Offerings - Wednesday Night Sangha From their own direct experience, Desto shares how dharma and practice continually lead to less suffering and more wellbeing. https://www.insightrichmond.org/offerings/november42026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c1a7bb1bd8f479334a1920/c7e5fea0-487d-4904-ae5d-8dd0dc72a9f3/Lev+Michael+Moses.jpg Offerings - Wednesday Night Sangha Fresh “Lev” White is a love and compassion activist. He offers mindfulness, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious, and passionate living. He teaches and writes about how unconditional love and self-compassion are the ultimate gateways to honoring and understanding others; thus, healing our communities and our planet. As certified coach and Founder of Affirmative Acts Consulting, Lev has supported executives, entrepreneurs, artists, other coaches and teams with achieving their goals. Through value alignment, offering accountability and helping to create individual practices of self-care, and self-compassion, his clients have successfully improved their management skills, founded organizations, and taken leadership roles in new executive and director positions. Through the practice of mindfulness, Lev helps clients see clearly through their fears, and improve their emotional responses to challenging situations, which supports strengthening their efficiency and expanding their creativity, in all areas of their life. Lev has offered over 200 trainings in the Bay Area and Beyond. He earned facilitation skills through his coaching certification, and an extensive leadership training program, each through the Co-Active Training Institute (formally known as The Coaches Training Institute) in 2011. He was trained on delivering LGBTQIA+ Ally trainings by CUAV in 2002, and in 2005 became a Certified Trainer through Out and Equal Workplace Advocates. Lev is mindfully grounded at the East Bay Meditation Center, and a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership program. Lev also offers secular mindfulness and non-secular meditation and talks on Compassion in both corporate and private settings. He credits his ability to reach and connect with diverse audiences to his years growing up in and around various communities in New York, D.C. and San Francisco. https://affirmativeacts.org/ https://www.insightrichmond.org/offerings/december162026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c1a7bb1bd8f479334a1920/c7e5fea0-487d-4904-ae5d-8dd0dc72a9f3/Lev+Michael+Moses.jpg Offerings - Wednesday Night Sangha Fresh “Lev” White is a love and compassion activist. He offers mindfulness, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious, and passionate living. He teaches and writes about how unconditional love and self-compassion are the ultimate gateways to honoring and understanding others; thus, healing our communities and our planet. As certified coach and Founder of Affirmative Acts Consulting, Lev has supported executives, entrepreneurs, artists, other coaches and teams with achieving their goals. Through value alignment, offering accountability and helping to create individual practices of self-care, and self-compassion, his clients have successfully improved their management skills, founded organizations, and taken leadership roles in new executive and director positions. Through the practice of mindfulness, Lev helps clients see clearly through their fears, and improve their emotional responses to challenging situations, which supports strengthening their efficiency and expanding their creativity, in all areas of their life. Lev has offered over 200 trainings in the Bay Area and Beyond. He earned facilitation skills through his coaching certification, and an extensive leadership training program, each through the Co-Active Training Institute (formally known as The Coaches Training Institute) in 2011. He was trained on delivering LGBTQIA+ Ally trainings by CUAV in 2002, and in 2005 became a Certified Trainer through Out and Equal Workplace Advocates. Lev is mindfully grounded at the East Bay Meditation Center, and a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership program. Lev also offers secular mindfulness and non-secular meditation and talks on Compassion in both corporate and private settings. He credits his ability to reach and connect with diverse audiences to his years growing up in and around various communities in New York, D.C. and San Francisco. https://affirmativeacts.org/ https://www.insightrichmond.org/offerings/september162026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c1a7bb1bd8f479334a1920/c7e5fea0-487d-4904-ae5d-8dd0dc72a9f3/Lev+Michael+Moses.jpg Offerings - Wednesday Night Sangha Fresh “Lev” White is a love and compassion activist. He offers mindfulness, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious, and passionate living. He teaches and writes about how unconditional love and self-compassion are the ultimate gateways to honoring and understanding others; thus, healing our communities and our planet. As certified coach and Founder of Affirmative Acts Consulting, Lev has supported executives, entrepreneurs, artists, other coaches and teams with achieving their goals. Through value alignment, offering accountability and helping to create individual practices of self-care, and self-compassion, his clients have successfully improved their management skills, founded organizations, and taken leadership roles in new executive and director positions. Through the practice of mindfulness, Lev helps clients see clearly through their fears, and improve their emotional responses to challenging situations, which supports strengthening their efficiency and expanding their creativity, in all areas of their life. Lev has offered over 200 trainings in the Bay Area and Beyond. He earned facilitation skills through his coaching certification, and an extensive leadership training program, each through the Co-Active Training Institute (formally known as The Coaches Training Institute) in 2011. He was trained on delivering LGBTQIA+ Ally trainings by CUAV in 2002, and in 2005 became a Certified Trainer through Out and Equal Workplace Advocates. Lev is mindfully grounded at the East Bay Meditation Center, and a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership program. Lev also offers secular mindfulness and non-secular meditation and talks on Compassion in both corporate and private settings. He credits his ability to reach and connect with diverse audiences to his years growing up in and around various communities in New York, D.C. and San Francisco. https://www.insightrichmond.org/offerings/june102026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c1a7bb1bd8f479334a1920/2ee2889a-8932-4ad9-ad1b-df577a9b3f3c/Costello.jpg Offerings - Wednesday Night Sangha - About Kitty Costello Kitty Costello has been practicing and teaching Eastern meditative and movement practices for more than 40 years. She found her Dharma home in Insight practice in 2000 and has since graduated from Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioners, Buddhist Psychology, and Community Dharma Leader Programs. As a psychotherapist and meditation teacher, she integrates Eastern and Western approaches to metabolize stress and trauma, helping to free the bodymind into its natural state of wellbeing. As an editor with Freedom Voices Publications for more than 30 years, she has fostered its mission to publish works “that speaks to and from communities on the margins.” https://www.insightrichmond.org/offerings/october142026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c1a7bb1bd8f479334a1920/a117a355-addb-4ade-8f71-e59b5750ab94/sumati+shakthi+Ganeshan.jpeg Offerings - Wednesday Night Sangha Sumati Shakthi Ganeshan has been teaching yoga and meditation for 19 years in the Bay Area. She studied Bharatha Natyam for 11years. Her asana teachers include Rodney Yee, Shiva Rea, Sarah Powers, and Timothy Lynch. Shakthi is a doctor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics with a Masters of Public Health. Shakthi is a dharma teacher in the Vipassana tradition, having studied under Jack Kornfield, Guy Armstrong, Joseph Goldstein, Will Kabat-Zinn, James Baraz, Gil Fronsdale, Andrea Fella, Pamela Weiss, Kate Munding. She is co-founder of Assayasangha.org and teaches two meditation classes per week. Shakthi originates from ancestral temple culture, Indian classical music training, childhood immersed in bhajans and vedic chants, and has studied clinical Ayurveda, including pulse and tongue diagnosis. She is a trained Interplay Leader- a healing modality combining singing, storytelling and dance in the form of classes and workshops. https://www.insightrichmond.org/offerings/september232026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c1a7bb1bd8f479334a1920/a117a355-addb-4ade-8f71-e59b5750ab94/sumati+shakthi+Ganeshan.jpeg Offerings - Wednesday Night Sangha Sumati Shakthi Ganeshan has been teaching yoga and meditation for 19 years in the Bay Area. She studied Bharatha Natyam for 11years. Her asana teachers include Rodney Yee, Shiva Rea, Sarah Powers, and Timothy Lynch. Shakthi is a doctor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics with a Masters of Public Health. Shakthi is a dharma teacher in the Vipassana tradition, having studied under Jack Kornfield, Guy Armstrong, Joseph Goldstein, Will Kabat-Zinn, James Baraz, Gil Fronsdale, Andrea Fella, Pamela Weiss, Kate Munding. She is co-founder of Assayasangha.org and teaches two meditation classes per week. Shakthi originates from ancestral temple culture, Indian classical music training, childhood immersed in bhajans and vedic chants, and has studied clinical Ayurveda, including pulse and tongue diagnosis. She is a trained Interplay Leader- a healing modality combining singing, storytelling and dance in the form of classes and workshops. https://www.insightrichmond.org/offerings/july82026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c1a7bb1bd8f479334a1920/549e3025-e368-4203-aa44-a948e145c255/20250428_114450.jpg Offerings - Wednesday Night Sangha From their own direct experience, Desto shares how dharma and practice continually lead to less suffering and more wellbeing. https://www.insightrichmond.org/offerings/may132026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c1a7bb1bd8f479334a1920/34c0d763-57c4-4843-a152-d2721f7cbc4e/Eileen+Spillane.jpg Offerings - Wednesday Night Sangha - About Eileen Spillane (she/her) (RN, BSN, MA) I grew up in a family that normalized death and had a lot of it (big Irish family, lots of people, so lots of weddings and funerals). In college, I observed autopsies at the morgue in New York City during a death and dying course. I started my career at a cancer hospital caring for patients with brain tumors at the age of 20. My Nursing career continued into critical care where I met patients and families that often avoided discussions about end of life wishes. Patients and family members were often left with confusion and guilt when decisions needed to be made. I’ve learned a lot from the many opportunities of being with people when they were dying. I slowly became comfortable with the uncomfortable. I began to see this time as a sacred privilege and the benefits flowed over into my personal life. I saw my own mortality reflected in my patients and it shifted how I valued my experiences outside of work. Eventually, death wasn't so scary and it became a companion that walked beside me encouraging me to say yes to opportunities that fell outside my comfort zone. Sometimes those adventures got me pretty cozy with death. https://www.insightrichmond.org/offerings/may62026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c1a7bb1bd8f479334a1920/549e3025-e368-4203-aa44-a948e145c255/20250428_114450.jpg Offerings - Wednesday Night Sangha From their own direct experience, Desto shares how dharma and practice continually lead to less suffering and more wellbeing. https://www.insightrichmond.org/offerings/june242026 monthly 0.5 2026-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69c1a7bb1bd8f479334a1920/a117a355-addb-4ade-8f71-e59b5750ab94/sumati+shakthi+Ganeshan.jpeg Offerings - Wednesday Night Sangha Sumati Shakthi Ganeshan has been teaching yoga and meditation for 19 years in the Bay Area. She studied Bharatha Natyam for 11years. Her asana teachers include Rodney Yee, Shiva Rea, Sarah Powers, and Timothy Lynch. Shakthi is a doctor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics with a Masters of Public Health. Shakthi is a dharma teacher in the Vipassana tradition, having studied under Jack Kornfield, Guy Armstrong, Joseph Goldstein, Will Kabat-Zinn, James Baraz, Gil Fronsdale, Andrea Fella, Pamela Weiss, Kate Munding. She is co-founder of Assayasangha.org and teaches two meditation classes per week. Shakthi originates from ancestral temple culture, Indian classical music training, childhood immersed in bhajans and vedic chants, and has studied clinical Ayurveda, including pulse and tongue diagnosis. 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