Claire Villarreal, PhD

Gatineau, QC, Canada

2.1k Followers

Claire Villarreal received her PhD from Rice University’s Department of Religion and has taught academic courses at Rice and UH Clear Lake and led meditation sessions at Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism, the Jung Center, Discovery Green, and various other settings in Houston and Fort Worth, Texas. She was Programs Director at Dawn Mountain from 2015 to 2019 and is currently a Houston Jung Center faculty fellow; she adapts traditional Buddhist wisdom for online and in-person spiritual instruction.

Read more

Reviews

Tara

Feb 9, 2026

This may be intended as satire- but it helped me nail 9 interviews in 1 day!

Sandra Gold

Jan 29, 2026

Thank you so very much for this short meditation. Sometimes i feel tension building up and don’t always have a lot of time for a long calming meditation. This is where your beautiful voice comes in and helps me to relax. Thank you for sharing your beautiful work.✨🌟🙏🏾🌟✨

Chad

Jan 10, 2026

Than You Namo Buddha’s🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Morgan Dowd

Jan 10, 2026

Very good and calming

Mark Pogson

Jan 9, 2026

Love this visualisation!😊🙏

Dwayne McBean

Nov 23, 2025

This was a very insightful talk. Thank you so much for hosting it.

Philippa

Sep 20, 2025

A really thoughtful body scan. I especially liked the indepth approach, feeling into the inner body, the bones etc. Thank you 🪷🙏

Philippa

Sep 3, 2025

This made me laugh, an exercise in ego stroking I guess. But it's sad that the "wellness" industry uses this as its mantra. Having hijacked genuine Buddhist practices and turned them into mere ego enhancing nonsense. Thank you for the reminder on that trixy thing called ego 🙏

Philippa

Sep 3, 2025

A beautiful and freeing tonglen practice. Thank you. In gratitude 🙏

Amber Rose

Aug 18, 2025

I have been searching for over an hour for the perfect meditation to calm me down before my job interview tomorrow. Im so glad I found this. It's true perfection. I am so grateful for you and the universe for guiding me too you.

About

Speaks English

Joined Insight Timer in October 2016

linktr.ee/clairevillarreal

Join 30 million people practicing everyday wellbeing for free

Scan to download
the Insight Timer app