On Tuesday June 6th, Napa Valley Insight Meditation will host a talk by meditation instructor, writer, and filmmaker Cheryl Slean.

Cheryl has been practicing meditation intensively since 1995, including hundreds of days of silent retreat. She was authorized to teach in 2007, and is currently serving on the Teachers’ Councils at Against the Stream L.A. and Insight Community of the Desert, Palm Springs. She teaches classes and residential retreats at these centers and at other spiritual and secular venues worldwide including Seattle Insight, Mindful Schools, Foundations Recovery Network, Santa Monica Hospital, Google LA, and many other health and wellness, business, arts and social change settings. She has a Certification in Mindfulness Facilitation (CMF) from the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. Cheryl is also a writer, filmmaker and educator working in the arts and sustainability, and is executive producer of VisionLA Climate Action Arts.