DaRa Williams, a trainer, meditation teacher, and psychotherapist, has been a meditator for the past 25 years and is a practitioner of both Vipassana and Ascension meditation. She is a graduate of the Spirit Rock/Insight Meditation Society Teacher Training Program and is currently a guiding teacher at IMS. She is the program manager and a core teacher in the current IMS Teacher Training, DaRa Williams has been a clinician and administrator in the field of Mental Health for more than 25 years and currently maintains a private practice in Manhattan.