Pawan Bareja, PhD has practiced Vipassana meditation since 2001. She is a graduate of the Spirit Rock Teacher Training, a Buddhist Ritual Minister and a Community Dharma Leader at Spirit Rock. She has served as a board member of Braided Wisdom and on the Dhamma Dena Teacher Council. She has a keen interest in empowering students with practices to resolve their stress and trauma using mindfulness, Buddhist psychology and neuroscience. She is the author of Reignite Your Power: Resolving Trauma Using Mindfulness and has taught this material at Spirit Rock, San Francisco Insight, EBMC, and Esalen. In her private practice as Trauma Resolution Practitioner, Pawan works with a diverse population of clients and teaches mindfulness meditation.