Miles Neale, PsyD, is among the leading voices of the current generation of Buddhist teachers and a forerunner in the emerging field of contemplative psychotherapy. He is Assistant Director of Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science where he develops and teaches programs based on Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, meditation, neuroscience, and psychotherapy. Dr. Neale is also Buddhist psychotherapist in private practice where he sees meditators, yogis and those interested in well-being and spiritual development without spiritual bypassing and Instructor of Psychology at Weill Cornell Medical Center where he where he teaches and researches the clinical applications and health benefits of meditation.

Emily J. Wolf, PhD, is a counseling psychologist in private practice integrating contemplative methods of Indian yoga and meditation into Western psychodynamic therapy, recovery, and health psychology. She also is the Director of Nalanda Institute’s Contemplative Psychotherapy Program, deeply invested in training care providers in the healing modalities of Buddhist traditions. Dr. Wolf received her BA in Eastern Religion from Columbia College, PhD in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University, and has studied under Tibetan Buddhist and Hatha Yoga/Ashtanga yoga masters both in the United States and Asia for over a decade. She is co-editor and contributing author of Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy: Accelerating Healing and Transformation (2017).