Lesley Hyatt offers mindfulness and creative writing workshops and one-on-one support online and in Los Angeles at Skirball Cultural Center and UCLA Ext. Writers' Program. She facilitates the online women's Friday morning mindfulness group Everyday Mindfulness for Extraordinary Times (EMET). Lesley's dharma practice began over thirty years ago. She has been a longtime student of Theravada Buddhism and more recently a student of John Makransky in the Dzogchen lineage. She holds an MFA from UMass Amherst and is a former Fulbright Scholar. As a mindfulness teacher Lesley completed yearlong trainings with Mark Coleman and Martin Aylward, Insight L.A., as well as Awakening Joy with James Baraz and Mindful Self-Compassion with Chris Germer.

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