Lucia Horan was born in 1976 on the sacred land of Esalen in Big Sur. She was raised in the Esalen community and taught the practices that were developed by those who came before her. She was certified as an Esalen® Massage practitioner in 1994. She became a Hatha & Ashtanga yoga teacher in 1997. Lucia received lifelong direct training with Gabrielle Roth in the 5Rhythms® moving meditation practice and has been teaching 5Rhythms since 1998. She also has a BA from Goddard College with a major in expressive art therapy.

Lucia has been practicing Theravadin Buddhist meditation since 2005. She has devoted herself to the path of insight meditation as a complement to her moving meditation practice. Her primary learning concentration and training transmission was given to her by Robert Hall.

Having completed training in Buddha-Dharma with ATS, Lucia is formally empowered to carry forth and teach in all capacities the Dharma of liberation based on the teaching of the American-Buddhist lineage of Noah Levine, Jack Kornfield, and the forest masters of Thailand, including Ajahn Chah, Ajan Buddhadasa, and the retreat masters of Burma in the lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw.

Additionally, Lucia has completed David Treleaven’s Trauma-Sensitive mindfulness training. These practices have informed all of her teachings and act as a teaching lens in which to better understand the spectrum of trauma in any given room.

Her unique perspectives on insight practice have been published in the book Dancing with Dharma: Essays on Movement And Dance in Western Buddhism, edited by Harrison Blum and published by McFarland & Company. Lucia offers traditional dharma teachings, not as a “master Dharma teacher” but as a Dharma sister on the path of awakening. She invites you to practice with her, not under her.

Additionally, Lucia has worked as a somatic educator for Tony Robbins, PepsiCo Latin America DEI dept. & The transformational dept. of Google X Moonshot Factory. She leads focus groups, co-teaching with masters in the fields of Buddhist meditation, yoga, trauma, addiction, grief, and women’s empowerment. Lucia is a board member of The Butler Family Fund, a foundation focused on housing justice and reforming the criminal legal system through death penalty reform and juvenile justice.

Lucia teaches skills and strategies that help her students become better emotional and physical athletes of life. Her mastery is in the field of somatic meditation and dance. Her teaching is infused with her love for the dance and faith in these practices. Lucia currently resides in Wellington, New Zealand with her daughter and husband, Douglas Drummond. She teaches from a place of love, as a fellow human walking the path toward wholeness, peacefulness, and well-being.