Yong Oh

Yong Oh serves as a teacher on the Dharma Council for the Durango Dharma Center and is a core teacher for Sacred Mountain Sangha. Yong began meditating through the Soto Zen tradition and eventually transitioned to study, practice and teach in the Insight tradition. He is also a visiting teacher for the Chattanooga Insight Meditation group, and teaches retreats at the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock Meditation Center and Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center.

Yong is a graduate of Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s two-year Community Dharma Leaders program and the Sacred Mountain Sangha two-year Dharmapala training, taught by his primary teachers Kittisaro and Thanissara. He is a graduate of the 2017-2021 Insight Meditation Society Retreat Teacher Training program.

He is also an acupuncturist, loves mountains and forests and bringing the practice of meditation into nature, and has a particular interest in devotional expression, and supporting caregivers as well as communities of color in the Dharma.