IMS Online Learning Center

Isabel Adon is an Afro-Latinx meditator in the Vipassana (mindfulness) lineage and leads meditation for the BIPOC group and LGBTQIA+ at New York Insight Meditation Center and this year at the Garrison institute annual LGBTQIA+ Residential Retreat. She has been meditating for over 25 years. She has been a member of New York Insight Meditation Center for over 20 years and learned about the Dharma from various teachers throughout the years. She served on the Board of Directors of Insight Meditation Society (IMS) for over 6 years and chaired the DEI committee. She is presently a Board Member and Board President of Peace at Any Pace. Isabel is a level 1 MBSR teacher, trained under Elaine Retholtz, Jon Aaron and Dr. Kasim Al-Mashat and continues to explore the possibility of bringing this work forward to marginalized communities and communities of color. Isabel trained with Resmaa Menakem in the Somatic Abolitionist Training (Somatic Abolitionism) Isabel is a licensed clinical social worker and works with individuals, children, and families. Trained in family system, focusing oriented therapy, solution focused therapy and aboriginal/indigenous/cultural centered therapy and trauma therapy as well as DBT. Isabel works with the client to support them in discovering their own inner strengths and tools to transform life’s challenges into opportunities and possibilities for growth. She is a focusing oriented therapist and certifying coordinator for the Focusing Institute in the philosophy of the implicit and felt sense, developed by Gene Gendlin (Focusing) and continues to learn under the mentorship of Lynn Preston. Isabel is an instructor in Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy (IFOT) and Indigenous Tools for Living (ITFL) and trained under Shirley Turcotte. This philosophy focuses on working with trauma, while leaning into the land and focusing not only on the individual but also the collective.