Lisa Kring and Celeste Brooke Young

Lisa Kring is a licensed clinical social worker, with experience in child and family therapy and family court mediation.  Through her studies with Dan Siegel, M.D., she began practicing mindfulness with the Mindful Awareness Research Center more than six years ago, and later began the MBSR certification process with Bob Stahl and Jon Kabat-Zinn. She also leads ongoing mindfulness groups with cancer patients at the SIMMS/MANN Center for Integrative Oncology at UCLA. Lisa recognizes Trudy Goodman and Christiane Wolf as guiding teachers and mentors, and is deeply grateful to be a part of the Insight LA community. She also is a certified sommelier and wine writer.

Celeste teaches Basics of Mindfulness for InsightLA and has been meditating and practicing Yoga for more than a decade, including Yoga in the Hatha, Ashtanga and Anusara traditions. In 2006, she found a natural calling in teaching Yin Yoga while studying with Eckhart Tolle's partner, Kim Eng. Celeste received her certification to teach Yoga from Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley in 2007.