Travis Hicks
Travis Hicks is a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, certified by the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkley. This certification was given as part of the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program under the direction of Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. He has also completed the Upasika program for dedicated practitioners with Birken Forest Monastery, a Thai Forest Monastery under the direction of Abbot Ajahn Sona. Travis served on the board of IMH as a member and Board Chair. He has given talks at Insight Meditation Houston since 2017 and led and co-led daylong and residential retreats since 2021. Since 2025, he has been the Guiding Teacher for Insight Meditation Houston.
Travis is a licensed architect with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin.
Ginger Clarkson
Ginger Clarkson is a Community Dharma Leader, certified by Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. She has practiced Vipassana meditation under the mentorship of Jack Kornfield and completed the Dedicated Dharma Practitioner program taught by Eugene Cash and other senior teachers at Spirit Rock. Ginger is author of A Silent Cure: Transforming Preverbal Trauma Through Meditation (Velvet Spring Press) and Poems From the Heart of Silence, a compilation of poetry inspired by month-long silent meditation retreats. With her husband Mark Ryan, she founded the Cholula Vipassana Sangha, which she led for twelve years in the state of Puebla, Mexico, and since 2012 has led Insight Meditation Houston. She completed four units of Clinical Pastoral Education at the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care (NYZCCC). After her four-year internship, Ginger continues to volunteers as a hospice chaplain at Bering Omega House hospice in the Montrose area of Houston.
Ginger is a Board Certified Music Therapist and a Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery. In addition to her private practice, she has trained students internationally in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM). She holds a B.A. degree in music from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, a M.A. in music therapy from New York University, and a M.S. in special education from Southern Connecticut State University. She has taught at Yale University and at the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, and currently lectures and gives workshops at Houston’s C.G.Jung Educational Center. Her music therapy publications include I Dreamed I Was Normal: A Music Therapist’s Journey into the Realms of Autism, as well as of songbooks, musical plays, and articles about music therapy.
Ginger can be reached through her website: http://www.gingerclarkson.com