Guiding Teachers
Our Teachers
IMH’s lead teachers have completed rigorous formal training in the Theravada tradition. They teach from direct experience as longtime practitioners, retreat students, and community members before becoming teachers.
Travis Hicks
Guiding Teacher
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.
- Training
UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center; Upasika Program, Birken Forest Monastery (BC) - Teaching Focus
Mindfulness of the body, Theravada sutta study, Retreat guidance - Teaching Since
2017
Ginger Clarkson
Community Dharma Leader
Ginger Clarkson has been a dedicated Vipassana practitioner and teacher for over two decades. She is certified by Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, where she studied under Jack Kornfield and completed the Dedicated Dharma Practitioner program — one of Spirit Rock’s most rigorous paths for developing community teachers.
Before coming to IMH, Ginger founded and led the Cholula Vipassana Sangha in Cholula, Mexico for twelve years, bringing Insight Meditation to Spanish-speaking practitioners. She has completed four units of Clinical Pastoral Education at the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and volunteers as a hospice chaplain — work that has deeply informed her teaching on impermanence, compassion, and being fully present with what is.
Ginger is a Board Certified Music Therapist with degrees from Wheaton College, NYU, and Southern Connecticut State University. She is the author of two books exploring the intersection of meditation and music therapy.
- Training
Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Dedicated Dharma Practitioner Program under Jack Kornfield - Teaching Focus
Loving-kindness & Brahma Viharas, Compassion practices, Music and meditation - Teaching Since
2012
A Note on Teacher Lineage
In the Theravada tradition, teachers receive formal authorization from their own teachers — maintaining an unbroken lineage of transmission. IMH’s teachers trained under established Western and Asian masters, ensuring that the teachings offered here reflect authentic Dharma as received from the source.
Questions for our teachers can be submitted via the contact form or asked directly during Monday evening discussions.