Christiane Wolf

Before transitioning full time to teaching the Dharma and mindfulness Christiane trained as an OB/GYN and received an PhD in psychosomatic medicine from the University of Berlin in Germany.

She is a graduate of the Spirit Rock/IMS/Insight Meditation Center teacher training and teaches retreats and classes in the US and in Europe. She is a MBSR teacher trainer for the UC San Diego Center For Mindfulness and the co-founder and lead instructor for VA CALM, the national mindfulness facilitator training program for clinicians at the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

Christiane is the author of  “Outsmart Your Pain – Mindfulness and Self-Compassion to Help You Leave Chronic Pain Behind” and the co-author of the classic training manual for mindfulness teachers  “A Clinician’s Guide to Teaching Mindfulness”.

She is a senior teacher at InsightLA in Los Angeles where she lives with her husband and their three teenagers.