Jane Baraz (she/her) began meditating in 1976 and greatly values sitting retreats. She was a founding board member of Spirit Rock Meditation Center for its first eight years. Jane taught English as a Second Language to both children and adults for fifteen years; she’s grateful MMTCP is now accessible to people from a variety of countries. She’s a trained Mindful Self-Compassion teacher and has taught many eight-week MSC courses both at The Women’s Cancer Resource Center in Oakland and at Spirit Rock. Jane’s also a trained MBSR teacher and has taught over twenty courses at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center during the past eight years. She also coteaches week-long meditation retreats internationally with her husband, James. Jane loves supporting people in accessing their own wisdom and encourages students to bring a friendly, gentle attitude to meditation practice and greater compassion to daily life and our world.
